Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 32 | And the demand for jam jars had been so great that even salvage dumps and cemeteries had been searched for extra supplies . |
| 33 | This was so even when a child had been submitted for expert medical examination . |
| 34 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 35 | Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point . |
| 36 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 37 | The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days . |
| 38 | Throughout 1838 , Darwin had been allowing for Lyellian competitive defeats to extinguish some species before their predetermined ageing overcame them . |
| 39 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 40 | In the Dec. 28 elections held in Nagorny Karabakh for its self-proclaimed republican Supreme Soviet [ see p. 38657 ] , 11 of the 81 seats had been reserved for Azerbaijani deputies , but not taken up . |
| 41 | His meeting had been timed for three o'clock . |
| 42 | The session was marked by the frank and abrasive attitude taken by Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk towards the CIS ( whose collapse he apparently regarded as imminent ) and his combative response when Russian President Boris Yeltsin suggested that the legal basis had been set for joint CIS armed forces . |
| 43 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 44 | Well over 100 applications had been received for 35 places on a new course starting this year . |
| 45 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 46 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 47 | The second route was to give the library user direct access to those machine-readable bibliographic records from which card and computer output microform ( COM ) catalogues had been produced for more than a decade through shared centralized cataloguing . |
| 48 | Tom Dreaper could not convince him that racing was a business to be taken seriously , and Foinavon had been sold for 2,000 guineas . |
| 49 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 50 | Mr Reynolds had an intravenous infusion and a central venous line ( see p.1 ) and fluids had been prescribed for both . |
| 51 | Five other Western nationals had been arrested for alleged border offences in August and September [ see pp. 39069 ; 39116 ] . |
| 52 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 53 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |
| 54 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 55 | Initially a conference had been scheduled for mid-1991 , but the Congolese Trade Union Confederation and many of the opposition parties had appealed to Sassou-Nguesso to bring the date forward . |
| 56 | Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations . |
| 57 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 58 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 59 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 60 | This routine had been established for more than a year , so it was no surprise when one Sunday evening in early November , he announced at the supper table , ‘ Me and Maisie 's set a date . |