Example sentences of "had been [verb] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brandon J. noted that Mareva injunctions had been made to provide security for the payment of any award which the plaintiff might obtain in the arbitration , and he saw ‘ no good reason ’ against this practice . |
| 2 | On July 7 the small Hural had been disbanded to make way for the Great Hural to act as the country 's new single-chamber legislative body . |
| 3 | On each occasion , every available manservant had been posted to keep watch for soldiers , and she knew that if ever there was a night Tristram should not come visiting , this was it . |
| 4 | Roman hair had been plaited to make hair for these gods . |
| 5 | Here it ran between quiet green glades , the remnant of an oak wood which had been stripped to build ships for the navy and then , in a last plundering , to make charcoal for the insatiable furnaces and foundries down at Carron forge . |
| 6 | According to analysts , Souto had been forced to take responsibility for recent revelations that several high-ranking officers were deeply implicated in a vast network dealing in stolen cars from Brazil and Argentina , most of which were being passed on for sale in Bolivia . |
| 7 | Polish radio reported on Oct. 16 that a bilateral agreement had been signed to provide compensation for victims of Nazi crimes . |
| 8 | Elaborate steps had been taken to conceal plans for the wedding . |
| 9 | The hijackers , who told reporters that they had been attempting to gain publicity for the pro-democracy cause in Myanma , pleaded guilty in Bangkok Criminal Court on Jan. 30 , 1990 . |
| 10 | An early fourth-century building had been demolished to make way for the wall , thus providing an approximate date for its construction . |
| 11 | A whole street of houses had been demolished to make way for the edifice looming above her , Isabel vaguely recalled hearing . |
| 12 | The previous occupant had been a Swiss merchant who had been evicted to make way for the English milord and his lady , and Jane had a suspicion that the Swiss , like all foreigners , harboured strange and filthy diseases . |
| 13 | From the 1850s the sanitary principle had been used to justify demands for state intervention regulating sexual disease and immorality . |
| 14 | The contract made no mention of this , but there was evidence that , in practice , he had been allowed to have petrol for private use . |
| 15 | It had been meant to give time for negotiation if there were problems about their proposed campaign . |
| 16 | He had been told to take photographs for the magazine , not to give to Ana . |
| 17 | Delaney had been told to hold Titron for forty-eight hours . |
| 18 | The new home for temporary shows allowed the European paintings and sculpture to reclaim their galleries , which had been emptied to make room for shows like ‘ Bazille ’ . |
| 19 | By this time the tiny west wing of the villa had been removed to make way for a gigantic conservatory , which has since disappeared . |
| 20 | The embarrassed staff related the sorry saga of how the seats had been removed to make way for cargo . |
| 21 | In the 1970s they had been required to obtain land for future projects , and they could hardly have been expected ? sell at such severely-depressed prices . |