Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Cienfuegos speech Castro confirmed that work on the Juraga nuclear power plant in Cienfuegos , the construction work on which was begun in 1972 and which was now 90 per cent complete at an estimated cost of US$1,000 million , had been halted indefinitely for lack of funds . |
| 2 | Once parliament had given its assent to the war and Edward 's prospective companions in arms had been singled out for honours , Edward set about mobilizing the financial support he needed . |
| 3 | The Kuwaiti government consistently denied that Palestinians had been singled out for arrest and punishment . |
| 4 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 5 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 6 | It would have been better if Cuntona had n't equalised or if Bruce had been sent off for clothes-lining that turk on the half-way line . |
| 7 | The expediter — ‘ Joy ’ — was the envoy of a client of mine : the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines ( CDCP ) , a local company my bank had been courting unsuccessfully for years . |
| 8 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to the holiday with his son , who attended business meetings in the US capital . |
| 9 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to a holiday in the States with his son . |
| 10 | The Sikhs , ignoring him , had been digging steadily for hours ; now they were beginning to shovel up wet earth . |
| 11 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 12 | In the Captain 's office the Substitute snapped his briefcase shut and his registrar handed over the warrants that had been made out for Rudolfo , Scano 's boy and the gamekeeper . |
| 13 | Bearded schizophrenic Tony Strong , 34 , — described as ‘ dangerously sick ’ — had been detained indefinitely for treatment . |
| 14 | In Ghana the forest animals had been killed mostly for food , ‘ bush meat ’ . |
| 15 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 16 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 17 | They were afraid in that some time or another , some of the fellers on the corner had been locked up for obstruction . |
| 18 | He found a place in sight of one of the park 's two lakes where a small plantation of young trees had been fenced off for protection . |
| 19 | The visit had been known about for weeks . |
| 20 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 21 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 22 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 23 | I moved the reliquary from its altar , after it had been swathed well for safety in moving it to a higher place . |
| 24 | In Ballymacarrett , there was less unemployment , traditional gender roles were more clearly differentiated , the population was resident in traditional streets of terraced houses , and for the most part it had been established there for generations . |
| 25 | The empty dishes , china , and uneaten food had been taken away for examination , so the sight and smell were somewhat more palatable than they had been the day before . |
| 26 | He climbed them sadly until finally he reached a low corridor , which many years ago had been decorated in dark brown : the paint had been flaking off for years . |
| 27 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 28 | All the ships , large and small , which had been held up for days past , had now unfurled their sails and were putting to sea . |
| 29 | The new body had been growing steadily for weeks . |
| 30 | The plant had been closed down for repairs following an explosion at the St Petersburg nuclear power station , where similar equipment was in use [ see p. 38843 ] . |