Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |
| 32 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 33 | After either Nicocheck or Nicotine Patch had been worn for 24 hours plasma nicotine ( 0.2 µg/l ) and cotinine ( 0.2 µg/l ) concentrations were unchanged , indicating no absorption . |
| 34 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 35 | Uscfrea and Yffi died in infancy in Gaul among the Franks , where they had been sent for greater safety ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 36 | Further inquiries were now being made and the substance seized had been sent for scientific analysis . |
| 37 | Both very meticulous players , they had fallen more than one hole behind and had been warned for slow play . |
| 38 | A meeting of the Public Sector Pay Committee had been called for 8.45 a.m. — a sure sign that it had been called by Geoffrey Howe who was consistently the earliest ministerial starter . |
| 39 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 40 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |
| 41 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 42 | Relations with China , which had been strained for many years since the 1962 war between the two countries , gradually improved after Rajiv Gandhi 's visit to Beijing on Dec. 19-23 , 1988 , the first to China by an Indian Prime Minister for 34 years . |
| 43 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 44 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |
| 45 | In Kent v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner , a blanket ban had been imposed for 28 days in the light of the Brixton disorders of 10–13 April , and disorder at several Bank Holiday fairs . |
| 46 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 47 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 48 | Each of the patients examined had been referred for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy to investigate dyspeptic symptoms . |
| 49 | The inquest heard that Leonie had been seen regularly by her GP and had been referred for psychiatric treatment . |
| 50 | By June 17 the police chief responsible for the Tehran section of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution ( Pasdaran ) force announced that special squads had been formed for rapid mobilization as necessary to control urban unrest . |
| 51 | Davies , who had been jailed for similar offences eight years ago , will be sentenced next month . |
| 52 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 53 | And the demand for jam jars had been so great that even salvage dumps and cemeteries had been searched for extra supplies . |
| 54 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 55 | Rotation was continued until the gall bladder was clear on fluoroscopy and no impacts had been felt for five minutes . |
| 56 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 57 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 58 | Mr Reynolds had an intravenous infusion and a central venous line ( see p.1 ) and fluids had been prescribed for both . |
| 59 | A state of emergency , which already existed over two-thirds of the country ( representing more than 50 per cent of the population ) , had been reimposed for 30 days in the capital Lima on March 23 in an effort to protect candidates , following the murder of a FREDEMO congressional candidate , Julio Gálvez . |
| 60 | His meeting had been timed for three o'clock . |