Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was John Brown , a miner who had been entombed alone for 23 days . |
| 32 | Twenty boreholes were logged as part of the BGS Core mapping programme , of which fifteen had been drilled specifically for the programme , and five were pre-existing water-supply boreholes made available to BGS . |
| 33 | Eventually , they talked themselves out ; or at least the talk became overlaid by the preparations for the Christmas feast , only two weeks away , and those matters of business that had been laid aside for the Earl 's attention : the visits he had to make , and the people he had to see . |
| 34 | Secondary education had been provided only for a minority . |
| 35 | His attention had been drawn away for only five or six seconds and there were surely only half a dozen shops that she could have entered . |
| 36 | He reported that £1,000 had been set aside for proper surfacing of paths at Radford Park . |
| 37 | The last day had been set aside for a hunting trip , a full day out in the field , putting into practice , hopefully , all we had learned . |
| 38 | A room had been set aside for the investigation . |
| 39 | It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices . |
| 40 | A short time later , a car pulled into the underground drive-through that had been set aside for taxis and pick-ups at the mainline rail terminus . |
| 41 | The smallest of the three rooms had been set aside for the officer in charge ; it had a desk , a couple of chairs , and a telephone which , allegedly , would soon be functional . |
| 42 | Wycliffe went through to the little room which had been set aside for callers . |
| 43 | Parking the car in the small space beneath the house that had been set aside for it , Belinda skimmed silently up the back stairs . |
| 44 | An evening had been set aside for a get-together of the Branch 's top 50 clients to promote Special Savings Accounts . |
| 45 | The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears . |
| 46 | Thanks to cosmetic ingenuity , the damage had been repaired sufficiently for the coroner 's jury to view the corpse when the inquest was held in the prison later that morning . |
| 47 | The field artillery weapons with which the combatants entered the war in 1914 had been designed also for use in short-range battles . |
| 48 | Where discovery methods were applied in schools which had been designed specifically for child-centred learning , the change was even more apparent . |
| 49 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 50 | She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne . |
| 51 | The Mackie Memorial Library had been put together for just this purpose a hundred years before , and these were the very books being sold by Derbyshire library staff . |
| 52 | With the approaching end of war in 1918 coalition became more positive because the coalition now had to deal with the issues that had been put aside for the duration , and more controversial because this pushed some Unionists into outright opposition . |
| 53 | Bars that had been put there for their protection when the room had been a nursery for the four girls : Daisy , Ethel , Lily , Amy , the little daughters of Alfred Greenwood , founder of a chain of grocery shops serving the clothing trade of Leeds , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 54 | Until then , cattle had been required mainly for work and milk but an increasing demand for meat inspired Bakewell to breed for the butcher rather than for the plough . |
| 55 | An imitation Everest base camp had been pitched there for the benefit of press , potential sponsors and team members in need of some high-altitude practice . |
| 56 | But sexual jealousy of an unsatisfactory husband 's former wife — this did n't seem likely : Viola 's own love-life , Greg guessed , had been varied enough for her to ignore any previous entanglements of her second husband 's . |
| 57 | An extensive mutagenesis of the IE-3 binding site had been performed previously for an analysis of the sequence requirements for Vmw175 binding ( 21 ) . |