Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] be [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should have been a large timber column but this had been removed for some reason many years ago and led to the roof sagging some 4 ’ . |
| 2 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 3 | All had been festering for many years . |
| 4 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 5 | Five of those released on Christmas Eve 1772 had been gaoled for each owing 12s 8d , and were given half a crown ( 2s 6d ) on discharge . |
| 6 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 7 | In his budget speech Babangida announced that a provision of $2,000 million had been allocated for external debt servicing in 1990 , which he considered to be " unsustainable " . |
| 8 | By 1986 UDGs worth £78 million had been approved for 177 projects , with a public-to-private-sector ratio of 1:4.5 . |
| 9 | The third had been expected for some time . |
| 10 | The decrease in spot density with age observed in patients with constipation is not therefore an age related factor , but is most probably related to the duration of the symptoms as most had been constipated for many years . |