Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because both test and control groups had been singled out for special attention a group pride had developed and this became the motivation for improved performance . |
| 2 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 3 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 4 | One manager felt the changes had been rushed through for political reasons , had overwhelmed staff and brought ‘ no major instant successes ’ . |
| 5 | Armenia is begging Russia to recommission two old reactors that had been shut down for good in 1988 under popular pressure . |
| 6 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |