Example sentences of "it had been [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 . |
| 2 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 3 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 4 | The pose is certainly borrowed from Egypt , where it had been used for male figures for centuries . |
| 5 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 6 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 7 | To find conditions leading to the formation of stable complexes we investigated whether the addition in the incubation mixture of the first two initiating NTPs relieved the heparin sensitivity , as it had been described for other promoters with similar characteristics ( 8 ) . |
| 8 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 9 | It had been known for some time that relations between Stephenson and Villa were strained because of the player 's insistence on living in his home-town of Newcastle , and several clubs , keen to secure him , were watching the situation closely . |