Example sentences of "[noun sg] had be [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 2 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 3 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 4 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 5 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 6 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 7 | In the Commons vote in June last year a majority of 123 was against any change , and MPs believed the issue had been settled for this Parliament . |
| 8 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 9 | The museum had been closed for several months because of a leaking roof . |
| 10 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 11 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 12 | This routine had been established for more than a year , so it was no surprise when one Sunday evening in early November , he announced at the supper table , ‘ Me and Maisie 's set a date . |
| 13 | Although no one had been hanged in Ireland since 1954 and capital punishment had been abolished for most categories of murder in 1964 [ see p. 19227 ] , it had been nominally retained for those categories specified above . |
| 14 | She was happily thinking , Serves him right , a pity there was n't a cloudburst , when across the car park , in an area where the top managers of Vasey 's normally parked their cars , she noticed that room had been made for another car . |
| 15 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 16 | The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black . |
| 17 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 18 | The plenum had been delayed for several months , allegedly because of divisions over economic policy between the central and provincial authorities . |
| 19 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 20 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 21 | Although an adjoining area of ground had been purchased for this purpose , it was never developed as a burial ground and its virgin state allowed the Ekarro Housing Co-operative to complement the conversion of All Saints and St Barnabas with a new building , in the style of the surrounding villas , accommodating further flats for co-operative members ( Plate 26 ) . |
| 22 | The problems of the system under which the starter operates a lever had been known for some years , but the Jockey Club and the course executive failed to replace it , the report added . |
| 23 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |
| 24 | He could feel a sense of power and satisfaction , as though his whole life had been lived for this . |
| 25 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 26 | Although the general distribution of earthquakes around the world had been known for many years , it was only with the establishment of a comprehensive network of seismographic stations to monitor underground nuclear weapons testing in the early 1960s that a detailed global picture emerged ( Fig. 2.10 ) . |
| 27 | However , top management became aware that all of the work-force reductions , although necessary , were not attacking the basic problem : the organization had been designed for another time in history rather than for the competitive world in which it now lived . |
| 28 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 29 | A social wage had been provided for those unable for whatever reason to earn , or those whose earning capacity had been interrupted by illness , injury , and unemployment . |
| 30 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |