Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [be] [adj] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to July 1 Soviet Jews had been able to leave for Israel with only a visa . |
| 2 | Discontented gentry unlocked the door which legal reformers had been unable to unlock for themselves . |
| 3 | Soviet negotiators had been eager to preserve for the Soviet Union the right to retain something close to 80 per cent of the Warsaw Pact total . |
| 4 | It proposed a network of under-fives centres throughout the borough — an idea which the under-fives workers had been anxious to promote for some time . |
| 5 | In fact Kinsai was noted for the peace and order which existed on its streets — there was order everywhere in the land , and very little real law breaking — and it was amazing that his attackers had been able to persist for so long without interference . |
| 6 | But even if the revolutionaries had been willing to settle for gradual extension of liberty the middle classes appeared powerless to extract major concessions from the Tsarist regime . |