Example sentences of "had [adv] [been] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 2 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 3 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 4 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 5 | A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building . |
| 6 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 11 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |
| 12 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 13 | By the time the Master himself arrived in London to be examined in August 1669 , he had already been suspended for two months past by the Chancellor of the Archbishop of York until the controversy could be settled . |
| 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 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A trial date had finally been set for 17 June 1991 , but given the obvious flimsiness of the case , he was still concerned that somebody within the DEA might be tempted into direct action . |
| 18 | Eleanor had just been photographed for one of the supplements and it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news . |
| 19 | For a small group of workers , however , who had experienced above average external exposure and had also been monitored for internal contamination by radionuclides , the mortality from cancer of the prostate gland and the lung was raised ( Beral et al , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | Moreover the two bishops standing at the foot of the throne had both been appointed for administrative work done in the King 's service . |
| 21 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 22 | Their natural opponents , who had often been lashed for undue subservience to clerical domination , joyfully pointed this out : ‘ It is one of the ironies on English political life ’ declared The Tablet , the leading Roman Catholic weekly , ‘ that people who , when they are thinking of lies , are never tired of denouncing the influence of the clergy in politics , at the same time are quite ready to give up their political consciences to the keeping of their ministers . ’ |
| 23 | The card had really been intended for those regularly bought by a mad old lady to be laid beside the bust of Karl Marx in his local cemetery . |
| 24 | It had earlier been planned for next week . |
| 25 | It had initially been planned for next week . |
| 26 | It had initially been planned for next week . |
| 27 | Arraigned on the same charge , Ren Wanding , the veteran human rights activist , who had previously been imprisoned for four years for his activities in the 1978-79 Democracy Movement , was given a more severe seven-year sentence with three years ' deprivation of political rights , having refused to show repentance for his " grave " crimes . |
| 28 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 29 | He had never been treated for mental illness , and Delroy was still alive in Jamaica . |
| 30 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |