Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [been] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote to Hanns about the time when wigs had been needed for Dulcie 's ballet Fête galante , and one of the part-time dancers in the Ballet Club , a hairdresser by trade , offered to make them , from papier-mâché . |
| 2 | Problems there certainly were : the disentangling of assets with multiple uses ( for example , some offices had been used for gas billing as well as for electricity ) inevitably caused some headaches . |
| 3 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 4 | A senior Customs and Excise source said yesterday that all the relevant ministries had been approached for evidence during that time , yet not one warned them off . |
| 5 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 6 | Barges had been destroyed for fuel or left by their previous owners to be broken up by ice or swept downstream by the spring floods . |
| 7 | Both these areas had been proposed for SPA status by the Nature Conservancy Council , in August 1990 and July 1988 respectively , but no progress has been made . |
| 8 | Yesterday , Coun Davies said she understood that bids had been invited for exploration of the coastal region which included Aberconwy . |
| 9 | The Lakeland fells had been baked for weeks under cloudless skies ; the becks were dry and the tarns warm enough to give refreshing dips . |
| 10 | According to the Middle East Times of June 11-17 , up to 115 of the 150 public-sector companies had been selected for privatization . |
| 11 | More than 2,000 companies had been earmarked for privatization in March . |
| 12 | It was reported on Aug. 1 that 30 of the country 's 60 active investigative judges had been dismissed for incompetence , the head of the Department of National Security ( DAS ) , Gen. Miguel Marza Márquez , stating that they were " responsible " for unsolved crimes [ see p. 37529 for dismissals from armed forces and police ] . |
| 13 | Although the existence of nitrate pollution and its health implications had been known for decades , in the UK it was not thought to be much of a problem until 1984 . |
| 14 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 15 | Gloucester claimed that the weapons had been intended for use against him , a story that he was later to use in an attempt to have the captured Woodvilles executed , although Mancini comments that no one took it seriously . |
| 16 | Gloucester claimed that the weapons had been intended for use against him , a story that he was later to use in an attempt to have the captured Woodvilles executed , although Mancini comments that no one took it seriously . |
| 17 | Only six customers had been disconnected for non-payment in the last six months . |
| 18 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 19 | He spoke of the close links what had been forged through trade with Spain and Portugal , whose wines had been exchanged for skins , wool and fish . |
| 20 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 21 | Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism . |
| 22 | The first half was in Malta and the second half in Monsummano-Terme and arrangements had been made for David to fly out there with Ken Pitt and perform ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ , one of the songs on David 's first album . |
| 23 | By the time the Scandinavian countries invited Britain back to Stockholm for the 1982 Conference on Acidification , the sums had been done for exchange of acid pollution between Europe 's nations , showing Britain to be the biggest producer and exporter of sulphur pollution in Western Europe . |
| 24 | On Sept. 22 , Saudi Arabia confirmed that an undisclosed number ( reported to be around 20 ) of Jordanian diplomats had been expelled for security reasons . |
| 25 | This reply , however , turned out to be incorrect , as teachers had been asked for pen-portraits of the children for use at the Panel Hearings , and the Acting Director of Education Mike Drever had supported the request . |
| 26 | Our results can be interpreted as supporting Gardner and colleagues ' finding in that the fathers of three ( out of 54 ) cases and two ( out of 324 ) controls had been monitored for exposure to ionising radiation before their child was conceived ( relative risk 9.0 , 1.0 to 107.8 ) . |
| 27 | About the year 1800 , or just afterwards , my great-great-grandfather , John Hey , moved from Shelley in the parish of Kirkburton , where his ancestors had been settled for centuries , to the village of Thurlstone . |
| 28 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it noted , in Germany 44 per cent of asylum applications came from eastern Europe in 1989 , while in Austria visa requirements had been imposed for Bulgarians , Poles and Romanians during 1990 [ see pp. 37969 ; 38464 ] . |
| 30 | In Spain , where visa requirements had been introduced for north Africans in May 1991 [ see p. 38201 ; right-wing commemoration of 16th anniversary of Franco 's death see p. 38591 ] . |