Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 2 | At the time of the survey there was no drama specialist on the staff , although a drama/English teacher had been appointed for the next year . |
| 3 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 4 | Some thought that far too many opulent and now half-empty movie palaces had been built for the elusive fashionable trade whilst others detected a more general dulling of the palate as the masses lost their enthusiasm for the old stories and seemed all too ready for something new . |
| 5 | None of the other parties apparently secured the 7 per cent minimum required to achieve representation , although five seats had been reserved for the two Christian Assyrian Parties . |
| 6 | The last two carriages of the 10.20am London-to-Oxford train had been reserved for the royal party . |
| 7 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 8 | Howard Samuel never had the courage to tell him that he had no recollection of their night-time conversation because of his post-prandial condition , so Randolph always regarded the fact that the licence had been obtained for the Labour Party as a gross breach of trust . |
| 9 | Mr Bennet warned that although good prices had been obtained for the contracting subsidiaries , it was not clear whether the banks and the secured bondholders would get all of their money back , and he was very cautious about whether there would be any dividend for the ordinary creditors , let alone the shareholders . |
| 10 | Last year , nearly £300 had been collected for the Spanish Fund , and within the space of a month , including Xmas no less than three large indoor meetings had been held , of which one was the Town Hall meeting at which one of the largest collections ever received at a Labour meeting in Leeds was taken up . |
| 11 | The trial had been featured for the previous three days . |
| 12 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |
| 13 | Gorbachev , speaking at the closing ceremony , acknowledged that there were basic disagreements between the two sides , but thought the meeting had created ‘ opportunities for progress ’ ; Reagan thought that ‘ useful preliminary results ’ had been achieved , and hoped that further progress would be achieved at the meeting that had been arranged for the following year . |
| 14 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 15 | There , temporary accommodation had been arranged for the rescued sect personnel in the local church hall and community centre , and for the captured heavies in the town jailhouse . |
| 16 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 17 | Awards chairman Alan Peaford told the audience at Torquay that 1,266 entries , the second highest so far , had been received for the 1992 contest , from every continent except Antarctica . |
| 18 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 19 | His own firm had been picketed for the last five months in a dispute over the use of new technology . |
| 20 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 21 | The special arrangements that had been made for the new pathway students had caused resentment among other students , who felt that they were being treated like second class citizens , and enthusiasm from staff members who had been involved in the parallel track had reassured other faculty members . |
| 22 | I do not agree with Stella Lowry that ‘ special arrangements that had been made for the new pathway students had caused resentment among other students , who felt that they were being treated like second class citizens . ’ |
| 23 | But he stressed that no formal approach had been made for the former football ground . |
| 24 | At the English Reformation Tyndale naïvely hoped that , after provision had been made for the surplus clergy , the revenues misused by the Church would be devoted to relief of the poor , not to the enrichment of Henry VIII 's courtiers . |
| 25 | No allowance had been made for the physical difficulty of getting heavy guns over a battlefield where all roads had been obliterated and every inch of ground thrown up into huge mounds and craters by the attackers ' own bombardment . |
| 26 | It quickly emerged that a good deal of potential support was coming from those Conservative Members who had been elected for the first time . |
| 27 | Police said a report had been prepared for the procurator-fiscal and a man is expected to appear at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Monday . |
| 28 | Earlier , police in Pretoria had on Sept. 17 arrested Piet ( " Skiet " ) Rudolph , deputy leader of the far-right Boerestaat party , who had been wanted for the previous four months in connection with bombings and arms thefts . |
| 29 | Jones had been cast for the minor but useful role of leading a small diversionary force of ships to the north of England and Scotland , but his attempts to make his ships ready for sea involved him in constant arguments with the French authorities , and his reputation as a tyrannical captain made it hard to find a crew . |
| 30 | Armenia 's nuclear power station was closed in February 1989 because of earthquake fears , while construction of nuclear plants in Krasnodar and the Crimea had been terminated for the same reason , after popular protests and construction of several reactors of the Chernobyl type had also been halted . |