Example sentences of "had [adv] [been] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main stumbling block had been the appointment of its chair [ see pp. 37712 ; 37777 ; 37858 ] , a problem temporarily resolved on Dec. 11 when Prince Norodom Sihanouk , who had hitherto been pressing for the chairmanship , called on the SNC to " stop talking about the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship … and have the 12 SNC members , on an equal footing , work for peace " . |
| 2 | It had apparently been arranged for the drugs to be delivered to a warehouse in Bristol . |
| 3 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 4 | It is also possible that seasonal meeting places had already been determined for the exchange of goods and people as well as social intercourse . |
| 5 | Arróspide [ see also p. 34182 ] was at the time in a Paris prison awaiting trial for offences committed in France , and his extradition had already been sought for the 1987 supermarket bombing in Barcelona [ for which see p. 35851 ] . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , estimates had already been obtained for the provision of a nurses ' recreation room and tennis courts for the nursing staff . |
| 7 | Thus , when Ludendorff arrived at his new headquarters at Marienburg , orders had already been given for the mass of the Eighth Army to form a half-moon facing southeast , toward the centre of which' Samsonov , urged on by telegrams from Jilinski , was now marching his weary men . |
| 8 | Contracts had already been given for the erection of grandstands and a tented village . |
| 9 | ESRC funding enabled the research team to classify and analyse biographical material that had already been collected for the 1900-39 cohorts through record search and postal questionnaire for the 1940-67 cohorts . |
| 10 | Mr Dowson , who is due to be married in June , said equipment worth more than £1,000 had already been bought for the programme . |
| 11 | In July the Earls of Northampton , Oxford , Pembroke and Devon together with Sir Hugh Despenser , Sir Richard Talbot and Sir Richard Stafford took an army to the duchy and put Charles of Blois to flight at the battle of Morlaix on 30 September , while in October the king himself embarked for Brittany , aware that part of the duchy had already been regained for the Montfort cause . |
| 12 | Three hundred and eight pounds was for the ladies open , four hundred and twenty for the outing to , two hundred and twenty six had already been paid for the coach , plus all the prizes . |
| 13 | It was getting quite late now , and the ward had already been darkened for the night . |
| 14 | Glenda Jackson had already been approached for the female lead . |
| 15 | In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition . |
| 16 | Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either . |
| 17 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 18 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 19 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 20 | Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes . |
| 21 | The official turnout was 74 per cent , although there were claims that many voters had not been registered for the ballot . |
| 22 | Mr Wormwood 's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver , the colour this time of a tightrope-walker 's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season . |
| 23 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 24 | At some point during my stay in Wolverton there arose a rumour that the church of St James in the neighbouring railway-workers ' village of New Bradwell had not been consecrated for the performance of weddings . |
| 25 | Léonie had just been kissed for the first time by a boy . |
| 26 | But for Seldes too it was ‘ the times ’ that had largely been to blame for the infantile nature of the movies . |
| 27 | His bullying tactics had always been reserved for the weaker sex , Virginia guessed bitterly . |
| 28 | Maiga , generally considered to be Saibou 's deputy , had also been blamed for the Feb. 9 killings , and his departure was described as " in the interest of the nation and in order to restore calm " . |
| 29 | WPC Tracy Walker , praised for her hard work , courtesy and administration skills , had also been nominated for the award . |
| 30 | But this was to increase utilization of that Cumbrian coast line which had originally been conceived for the movement of iron ore and coke and this symbolized the extent to which the railway companies , as distinct from the resorts , long regarded the holiday traffic . |