Example sentences of "[pron] had be [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It quickly emerged that a good deal of potential support was coming from those Conservative Members who had been elected for the first time . |
| 32 | She hardly listened to Mr Lessing 's explanation ; the tutor was his cousin , who had been intended for the Church but proved to have divergent views from his bishop , and had resigned . |
| 33 | Apart from anything else , his family came from Glasgow ( unlike twenty-five of the thirty-one Scottish lord lieutenants , Admiral Bryson had also been educated in Scotland ) , as several of the big Sussex landowners who had been hoping for the job quickly pointed out . |
| 34 | All had two or more close relatives who had been treated for the disease . |
| 35 | Earlier , police in Pretoria had on Sept. 17 arrested Piet ( " Skiet " ) Rudolph , deputy leader of the far-right Boerestaat party , who had been wanted for the previous four months in connection with bombings and arms thefts . |
| 36 | The suspected assassin , José Sales , who was arrested later , was believed to be a professional gunman hired by local landowners who had been blamed for the murder in 1985 of his predecessor Joao Canuto . |
| 37 | This traditional story tells of a boy who had been substituted for the smith 's own son who had been taken away by fairies . |
| 38 | And while we were talking about Crippen , it would probably be unwise to choose as a role model someone who had been topped for the offence . |
| 39 | And he turned away from her to face his desk again , as if everything had been settled for the moment . |
| 40 | They had been drinking for the best part of an hour but none were drunk . |
| 41 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 42 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 43 | They had been admitted for the surgical treatment of the following conditions : group e : benign disease ( comprising patients with benign colorectal tumours ( two ) , plus those with chronic cholecystitis ; group f : inflammatory bowel disease ( all patients had moderately active ulcerative colitis with diffuse involvement of the whole colon , but no evidence at laparotomy or on liver function tests of hepatic damage ) ; group g : colorectal carcinoma . |
| 44 | But although they had been settled for the moment the two great political problems of the next half-century had already been foreshadowed : first , the tensions within the Angevin family ; second , the feudal question of the relationship between lord and vassal , between Capetian and Angevin . |
| 45 | Or so he seemed to Sairellen Thackray who preferred her leaders to have the mature dignity of a Richard Oastler , whom she had followed on foot those ninety miles to York and back when they had been campaigning for the ten hour working day . |
| 46 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 47 | It had been argued for the defendant that the payments had been made voluntarily to close the transaction , but Lord Reading held that payment under the type of pressure he had described was not so made . |
| 48 | The Terrorist Squad believed it had been intended for the Lord Mayor 's Parade later that day . |
| 49 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 50 | It had been destined for the pinacotheca but the dealer had had a soft spot for Charlotte . … |
| 51 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 52 | The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour . |
| 53 | The poor or null stabilizing effect of GpU indicated that , as it had been shown for the E.coli rrnB P 1 promoter ( 8 ) , the appearance of a complex stable to heparin challenge requires the formation of at least the first phosphodiester bond . |
| 54 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 55 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 56 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 57 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 58 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 59 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 60 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |