Example sentences of "had been [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 2 | It was enough for the Church that a corpse had been presented for burial . |
| 3 | ( A Challen piano had been presented for use in the church in 1976 . ) |
| 4 | He scored another victory recently when the Labour Party abolished the unions ' block vote in the leadership elections , something he had been advocating for ages . |
| 5 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 6 | Right at the end a glass pavilion had been built for concerts and parties , and Gran said people had come from as far away as Lancaster . |
| 7 | It had been built for Mr King 's grandfather in the days when he was known as Collector of Mails . |
| 8 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 9 | The sense of being part of a general flux had been lost for years . |
| 10 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 11 | One ‘ character ’ , Sharon , the schoolgirl who loves ( among other things ) the Brontes , had been written for Sugar and Spite and she did n't depend on rhyme for her humour and seemed less steam-radio-Stanley-Holloway-meets-Flanders-and-Swann-meets-Joyce-Grenfell-old-fashioned . |
| 12 | The strike had erupted on Oct. 3 over the interpretation of a collective labour contract , and a general strike had been planned for Oct. 16 by 100,000 other banana workers affiliated to the Confederation of Honduran Workers in support of those on strike . |
| 13 | This exercise had been planned for September 1992 , but was now brought forward . |
| 14 | Long 's health had been deteriorating for years , but he had kept open his channels of communication ; like Law his influence was based on years of devotion to the interests of the party , and like Law 's that influence had been used to argue the case for coalition . |
| 15 | Only 6 billion had been exchanged for som . |
| 16 | He spoke of the close links what had been forged through trade with Spain and Portugal , whose wines had been exchanged for skins , wool and fish . |
| 17 | That had been reserved for Nicholas and even there , le Grant wondered how far it was genuine . |
| 18 | It would appear that either the values had been substituted by the supplier ( without warning ) or the capacitors had been mistaken for components having an identical capacitance value but with a much reduced voltage rating . |
| 19 | After permission had been obtained for access to medical records , the OPCS provided details of all admissions to this hospital with various liver diseases ( diagnoses listed int Table I ) for the three years from 1 January 1987 ( the most recent dates available ) . |
| 20 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 21 | This third draft of the Treaty , the most radical so far in devolving powers to the republics ( " states " ) , had been sent for discussion to the USSR Supreme Soviet and the Supreme Soviets of the republics at the end of June 1991 . |
| 22 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 23 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 24 | The large group of sculpture , including sandstone figures and bronzes , had been sent for sale from America . |
| 25 | Once again advantage was being taken of the false building block principle which had been discovered for sulphanilamide ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 26 | Women 's Aid and the Domestic Violence Working Group — a body composed of those encountering the results of domestic violence — had been calling for clarification in the law since the decision . |
| 27 | Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism . |
| 28 | When Clementis had been hung for treason |
| 29 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |
| 30 | In R. v. Jordan ( 1967 ) Jordan , who had been sentenced for offences under the Race Relations Act 1965 , applied for a writ of habeas corpus claiming that he had been convicted under an invalid law . |