Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 2 | He added that the inquiry had been hampered for about 24 hours by the violence on Tuesday night . |
| 3 | Reintroduction of the Law on entry to and exit from the USSR had been delayed for almost 18 months in committee since its first reading . |
| 4 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 5 | With these additions the unitary principle , supposedly at the heart of the Redcliffe-Maud recommendations , had been rejected for nearly 20 million people out of England 's population of approximately 45 million . |
| 6 | He had been employed for only three weeks . |
| 7 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 8 | In February the King released 313 political prisoners , including prisoners of conscience Jogen Gazmere and Sushil Pokhrel , who had been detained for over two years without trial . |
| 9 | ‘ The Joint Parole Board/Home Office Committee was established in 1973 to give initial consideration , usually after a life sentence prisoner had been detained for about three years in custody , to the date for the first formal consideration of the case by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 10 | It had been prepared for quite some time and the brunt of it was against the Serbs , ’ said Col Jovanovic . |
| 11 | Nora had been prepared for almost any response from John , except the one she got — or thought she had got . |
| 12 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 13 | At one time so many people from the area were hanged at Newgate it had been nicknamed Jack Ketch 's Warren , and according to Paddy it had been known for as many as forty constables to march down with cutlasses to control disturbances . |
| 14 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 15 | The man had been held for nearly four months in a blacked-out room . |
| 16 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 17 | The windows had been closed for nearly three months and the place had a dusty smell that got into your throat and made your eyes smart . |
| 18 | Some 355 classes and courses had been provided for about 7,000 students in 110 WEA branches and thirty Student Groups . |
| 19 | After an electrolysis current had been passed for about three months ( to charge the palladium with hydrogen ) , a small excess of heat was observed of the order of one watt or less . |
| 20 | The UDA had been blamed for about one-third of the killings of civilians in Northern Ireland over the previous 23 years ( more than 2,000 civilians having been killed during this period ) . |