Example sentences of "had been [art] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been no room for competition with her mother and Jenna had never wanted to try to offer any resistance to the relentless drive that kept her mother going . |
| 2 | Said her husband had been a member for years . ’ |
| 3 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 4 | The eyes of the man in the doorway had been a reawakening for Sara . |
| 5 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |
| 6 | Keown then left at the end of his contract after being unable to agree terms with Graham over a new deal — and alleging that the sticking point had been a request for £50 a week more than he was offered . |
| 7 | The ‘ blockbuster ’ bombs were part of the IRA 's economic war , but there had been a tendency for people to despair of the political process , he warned . |
| 8 | In fact , there had been a tendency for countships ( and benefices ) to become hereditary long before the mid-ninth century : it was inherent in a social organisation where power and property in general were inherited . |
| 9 | Michelle moved on and soon was to be seen around Los Angeles with Nicholson , who had been a friend for years . |
| 10 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |
| 11 | The Colony , which had its legal status removed in February [ see p. 38002 ] , was still operating and former inmates had reported that it had been a centre for child sexual abuse and slave labour , and a torture centre for Pinochet 's DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup . |
| 12 | Nissan 's Zama factory , outside Tokyo , which is to be shut down , had been a showcase for automation in the 1980s . |
| 13 | They had been a team for years : the tiny wiry Eve with her restless eyes never settling long on anything or anyone ; the big handsome Benny , with her green eyes and chestnut-brown hair , tied back with a bow always , a big soft good-quality bow a bit like Benny herself . |
| 14 | On the issue of economic integration , delegates heard that only some dozen states had so far opted to adhere to the treaty instituting an African Economic Community ( AEC ) , which had been a focus for optimism at the OAU 1991 summit . |
| 15 | On the issue of economic integration , delegates heard that only some dozen states had so far opted to adhere to the treaty instituting an African Economic Community ( AEC ) , which had been a focus for optimism at the OAU 1991 summit . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a real medieval castle , that had been a ruin for years , and has now been modernized into a house . |
| 17 | An article in the same issue explained that The Observer accepted assurances obtained at three different levels from the ‘ security authorities ’ that they had no evidence that Sir Harold or his private secretary , Lady Falkender , had been a target for KGB blackmail or had been ‘ a plant ’ . |
| 18 | Monday afternoon in the House of Commons had been as great a triumph for him ( although he had said practically nothing ) as it had been a disaster for Churchill . |
| 19 | However , my predecessor , Bishop John Bickersteth , who for many years had been an advocate for issues of conservation , quite rightly protested that the Archbishop was saying no more than the biblical tradition states ! |
| 20 | ‘ Highly Conservative in politics , they are also High Churchmen ’ ; their sectarian spirit focused on Clarkson because , although a churchman , he had been an apologist for Quakerism and in earlier days as an enthusiast for civil as well as religious liberty ‘ he belonged to a very liberal class ’ and showed support for the French Revolution . |
| 21 | It had been THE facility for parachute servicing . |
| 22 | Previously this had been the case for interest on development of investment properties , but interest on dealing activities was capitalised . |
| 23 | Virgin had been dabbling in West Indian music for three years , and again it was Chris Blackwell and Island who had been the inspiration for Virgin 's involvement . |
| 24 | Fruit , though , had been the filler for pigs , the mash for cattle nursed past Christmas , at best the occasional absent-minded addition to a bare table . |
| 25 | Most of the cost was met by the wealthy Congregationalist , Abel Buckley , who had been the MP for Prestwich Division in the Home Rule Parliament of 1885 . |
| 26 | William Cossart arrived in Madeira in 1808 from Ireland , where he had been the agent for Newton , Gordon , Murdoch & Co . |
| 27 | Sometimes conditions could be even worse : Godwin , for example , describes a London court where ‘ the basement story of nearly all the houses was filled with foetid refuse , of which it had been the receptacle for years ’ , and one water barrel of 50 to 60 gallons is intended to serve two houses , containing between them at least a hundred people . |