Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most dramatic breakthrough came in 1970 as Courtaulds , the textile giant , was upgrading its machinery and selling off cheaply equipment which had been built to last for years . |
| 2 | In October 1917 , minute 27640 states : The Acting General Manager mentioned that in connection with the aeroplanes which the Railway Companies had been asked to construct for the government , the L & NW had undertaken at Wolverton a share of the work , i.e. construction of wings . |
| 3 | Sharing Coleman 's opinion of President Hafez Assad as the evil genius of state-sponsored terrorism , NALA had been formed to press for the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli troops from Lebanon and for the restoration of democracy under the aegis of General Michel Aoun , who , in September 1988 , had been appointed head of an interim military government in Beirut by outgoing President Amin Gemayel . |
| 4 | In preceding weeks a seven-member committee had been formed to prepare for the privatization of 76 state companies , in which foreign investors would be able to acquire minority holdings . |
| 5 | A National Parliamentary Movement ( MNP ) of 19 parties had been formed to campaign for the early adoption of a parliamentary system , which could mean severely curtailing Collor 's powers . |
| 6 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 7 | The peace plan , which would allow for republics to declare independence , had been amended to allow for republics to form a common state , the economy of which could be organized on non-market lines ; the article granting autonomy to the ( currently Serbian-controlled ) provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina was deleted . |
| 8 | Sylvie Guillem , the exquisite prima ballerina , had been procured to dance for it ; chanteuses of international renown were to sing for it ; the Gypsy Kings would be there to serenade it at the top of their lungs . |
| 9 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 10 | And now he had been made to pay for what he had done . |
| 11 | It indicated for the first time that quantum theory , which had been developed to account for atomic phenomena , still remained successful when applied to nuclei , systems which are a hundred thousand times smaller . |
| 12 | Well , in the passage from Matthew 's book about the life and times of Jesus , he tells us that after Jesus had been moved to pity for the lost-ness of the crowd , he turned to his best friends and said : |
| 13 | He said BC had been authorised to negotiate for future contracts on the basis of supplying at a world market related price . |
| 14 | Then , later , I believed that I had been born to die for someone . |
| 15 | In his view it was disgusting that the union had been forced to battle for four years to win the day . |
| 16 | In fairness to Sarah he had wanted to devote a whole day to her , but the pressure of his work had made it impossible , and he had been forced to settle for an afternoon wedding , following a Governors ' meeting , so that he and his bride could depart for Chertsey on the last train . |
| 17 | If their bodies had not been quite crushed to death by the labours they had been forced to perform for their Egyptian taskmasters , then surely their spirits had been . |
| 18 | People had been forced to combine for their own salvation . |
| 19 | The Guardian of April 18 reported that nearly 2,000 state-controlled companies had been forced to file for bankruptcy after an April 16 deadline for the repayment of their debts . |
| 20 | In December another presidential adviser , Carlos Spadona , had been forced to resign for his involvement in the case . |
| 21 | Blanche had been doomed to fight for her promotion , watch her weight , and fret over her childlessness . |
| 22 | Part of that money had been allocated to pay for pensions and vehicle leases , but now the force will have to find the money elsewhere or face cutting jobs . |
| 23 | In the 1960s the Northern Ireland Labour Party ( NILP ) was on the verge of becoming a significant political force , despite the fact that it had been left to fend for itself in very difficult circumstances . |
| 24 | In February 1952 , The Musical Express bade farewell to its readers with a final issue that blazed proudly on its cover ‘ Tommy Dorsey For Olympic Games ’ , the accompanying story telling of how bandleader Dorsey and his orchestra had been booked to play for four hours daily at the games in Finland that summer . |
| 25 | By one of those somersaults that can make Parliament so perplexing , whereas Ministers in the Commons had been forbidden to vote for abolition , in the Lords they were instructed to support the suspension of the death penalty for five years . |
| 26 | For the celebration , soldiers of his Army had been forbidden to shave for the last month so that their faced would more nearly represent those of warriors of old . |
| 27 | Although the British offered assurances that they would still work towards freer trade relations as circumstances permitted , the multilateralists in Washington had been compelled to settle for much less than they would have liked . |
| 28 | Of the furniture , one of the rare disappointments ( if you can call it that ) was the $825,000 ( £458,300 ) sale of an important Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry bureau plat , around 1710 , attributed to André-Charles Boulle , that had been estimated to sell for $1–1.5 million . |
| 29 | But Nick Stone was nowhere in evidence , and none of the departing cars were the models that Bodie had been primed to watch for . |
| 30 | Here Richard I 's envoys announced that the king would not stand — they had been ordered to vote for the Count Palatine Henry ( whose support Richard wanted in his struggle against the French king ) but he still had not returned . |