Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] for [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been criticised for selecting amateur crews — some said it was too tough for office workers , bakers and bank clerks . |
| 2 | A grant had been obtained for de-silting Swelling Hill Pond . |
| 3 | By 1968 , 15,000 men had been trained for handling civil disorder . |
| 4 | Gen. Ricardo Contreras , head of the Army Intelligence Battalion ( BIE ) which in September had been exposed for tapping civilian telephones [ see p. 39092 ] . |
| 5 | Only a week ago , a drunk in the village had been arrested for singing that song . |
| 6 | The ‘ foreign interests ’ of the Federal Republic of Germany , in terms of Blackmun J. 's tripartite analysis , were seen as particularly compelling and no good cause had been shown for doing other than resort to the Convention 's procedures . |
| 7 | The movement was particularly strong in the north-eastern town of Suceava where it claimed credit for the closure in February of the local cellulose fabric plant , whose carbon disulphide emissions had been blamed for causing nervous disorders . |