Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 2 | A vast open space had been cordoned off for the day . |
| 3 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 4 | Once parliament had given its assent to the war and Edward 's prospective companions in arms had been singled out for honours , Edward set about mobilizing the financial support he needed . |
| 5 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 6 | The Kuwaiti government consistently denied that Palestinians had been singled out for arrest and punishment . |
| 7 | Because both test and control groups had been singled out for special attention a group pride had developed and this became the motivation for improved performance . |
| 8 | Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie . |
| 9 | It would have been better if Cuntona had n't equalised or if Bruce had been sent off for clothes-lining that turk on the half-way line . |
| 10 | They also missed a second half penalty , stand-in keeper Billy Drake saving from David McCabe after Graham McConnell had been sent off for bringing down Finty McConville . |
| 11 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 12 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 13 | John told her that Mick , who had finished his examinations for Higher School Certificate , had been called up for the Royal Air Force . |
| 14 | A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ . |
| 15 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 16 | In the Newport hundreds , where the level of lay assessments was low and left substantially unchanged by the subsidy , the proportion of wealth owned by the Church was much higher than in the more advanced Chilterns , not only in 1522 but also after the initial assessments had been scaled down for the subsidy . |
| 17 | Controls comprised 21 patients with ileal pouches constructed during the same period who had been followed up for a mean duration of 43 months ( range 15–119 months ) and who had had endoscopies that showed no evidence of active inflammation . |
| 18 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 19 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 20 | A further meeting had been pencilled in for today , but ministers emerged after a two-hour meeting with the plans agreed . |
| 21 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 22 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 23 | In the Captain 's office the Substitute snapped his briefcase shut and his registrar handed over the warrants that had been made out for Rudolfo , Scano 's boy and the gamekeeper . |
| 24 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 25 | The Home Office spokesman said he could not comment on reports that the men had been beaten up for allegedly ‘ grassing ’ on other prisoners in the wing . |
| 26 | Anyone who entered the prison had to pay a fee and Athelstan recollected , that one of his parishioners , too poor to pay , had been beaten up for his poverty whilst Fitzosbert had stood by , smiling all the time . |
| 27 | Her own future had been mapped out for her by wealthy and adoring parents , newly returned from India , and because it was so much to her liking she did not rebel against their edicts . |
| 28 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 29 | Even so , it was not until 27 May 1952 that sufficient of the detail had been thrashed out for the representatives of the six countries , meeting in Paris , to be able to sign the treaty establishing the EDC . |
| 30 | One manager felt the changes had been rushed through for political reasons , had overwhelmed staff and brought ‘ no major instant successes ’ . |