Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] had [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 2 | If a business takes on more debt , its calculations can be thrown out by two things : if the interest cost of servicing the debt rises by more than was expected ; and if the cash flow earned by the business falls by more than had been planned for . |
| 3 | Characteristically , he charged considerably more than had been agreed for the work ; the ewer and basin weighed 570 ounces , substantially more than the requested maximum . |
| 4 | Of course the trade papers revelled in hyperbole but the claims that were being made had a greater validity than those that had been made for music-hall . |
| 5 | Congress approved on Oct. 26 a defence budget for fiscal year 1991 of $288,300 million , $16,700 million less than had been authorized for the previous year [ see p. 37409 ] . |
| 6 | Performance itself soon established norms which by 1950 were higher than had been hoped for in 1945 ; and then , as European recovery got underway , the standard became even more precise and , for Britain , more formidable . |
| 7 | The shortest route through Kent , entering London from the south , was clearly the best but had been rejected for political reasons , he added . |