Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] for political " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shortest route through Kent , entering London from the south , was clearly the best but had been rejected for political reasons , he added . |
| 2 | Of the shortfall , departments had assessed 80m as being unobtainable , and 65m had been rejected for political and other reasons ( Making Things Happen , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | A report in The Nation ( Bangkok , Thailand ) of Oct. 28 quoted a Myanma government official as saying that 1,087 people had been detained for political offences since the military takeover on Sept. 18 , 1988 , and that 100 people had been sentenced to death during the previous three months by both military tribunals and civilian courts . |
| 4 | A total of 2,500 civilians had been killed for political reasons in Colombia [ see also pp. 37484-85 ] , while in Peru hundreds had " disappeared " or had been murdered or tortured by government security forces [ see also pp. 37485-86 ] . |
| 5 | The figures had been changed for political reasons . |
| 6 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 7 | Henry 's main religious innovations — the break with Rome , the dissolution of the monasteries , and the partial dissolution of the chantries — had been introduced for political and financial rather than theological reasons . |