Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adv] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total of eight candidates had originally been registered for the presidential contest [ see pp. 38768-69 ] , but one , Joseph Estrada , had later decided to withdraw his candidature in favour of contesting the vice-presidency . |
| 2 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 3 | His bullying tactics had always been reserved for the weaker sex , Virginia guessed bitterly . |
| 4 | The repatriation of Yugoslavs had now been proceeding for a week . |
| 5 | When she was a small child people had stopped in the street asking why this little girl with the blonde , almost white , curls had never been chosen for the Pears soap advertisement … the one where it said , ‘ Growing up to be a beautiful lady ’ . |
| 6 | Although in their own eyes the rebels had simply been fighting for what was rightfully theirs , from the point of view of Henry II and Richard they were disturbers of the peace , and as princes maintaining the peace within their dominions , the Angevins could generally rely on the support of the church . |
| 7 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 8 | It is also possible that seasonal meeting places had already been determined for the exchange of goods and people as well as social intercourse . |
| 9 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 10 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 11 | An earlier report in September 1988 had claimed that over 1,000 Indians and peasants had been killed in land disputes since 1980 at the instigation of landowners , with official collusion , and that priests , nuns , church workers , lawyers and trade unionists had also been killed for working on their behalf . |
| 12 | IRISH League secretary Harry Wallace revealed today that no dates had yet been finalised for the outstanding Ulster Cup ties Linfield v Ballymena Utd and Bangor v Ballyclare Comrades . |
| 13 | Thus , when Ludendorff arrived at his new headquarters at Marienburg , orders had already been given for the mass of the Eighth Army to form a half-moon facing southeast , toward the centre of which' Samsonov , urged on by telegrams from Jilinski , was now marching his weary men . |
| 14 | In 1947 when Frank had his insight the existence of muons had already been known for ten years and the existence of muonic atoms had also been predicted . |
| 15 | In Bulgaria , where motorists had reportedly been queuing for up to three days at pumps , rationing was introduced on Oct. 15 . |
| 16 | The elections had originally been scheduled for January 1990 and then postponed to Feb. 18 when they were abandoned soon after polling started upon the observation of irregularities , and Djohar 's rivals accused him of vote-rigging . |
| 17 | If the Government had given away Hampshire Bus and the assets had then been sold for £2 , 1 million , the profit would have been the same to the buyer , and the loss to the public purse in real terms would have been no less . |
| 18 | Products from the former colonies of EC member states , they pointed out , were covered under the Lomé Convention , and similar measures had recently been agreed for the Andean Pact countries . |
| 19 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 20 | Various imaginative plans had already been suggested for dealing with the most difficult problem , the high-level waste . |
| 21 | Contracts had already been given for the erection of grandstands and a tented village . |
| 22 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , estimates had already been obtained for the provision of a nurses ' recreation room and tennis courts for the nursing staff . |
| 24 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |