Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [be] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 2 | 1992/93 maintenance had been for file-servers , high-performance PCs , and critical laser printers only . |
| 3 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 4 | In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools . |
| 5 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 6 | Albert and his young assistant had been at loggerheads for years now . |
| 7 | From this she deduced that the earlier arrangements had been of hamlets with infields , but , following growth in population , settlements had been replanned on new sites with the coalescence of population and lands . |