Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because both test and control groups had been singled out for special attention a group pride had developed and this became the motivation for improved performance . |
| 2 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 3 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 4 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 5 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 6 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 7 | One manager felt the changes had been rushed through for political reasons , had overwhelmed staff and brought ‘ no major instant successes ’ . |
| 8 | But meanwhile , the hospital workers had been dug in for another kind of long war which ca n't be won the miners ' way . |
| 9 | Armenia is begging Russia to recommission two old reactors that had been shut down for good in 1988 under popular pressure . |
| 10 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 11 | Suzanne Gratton , 22 , of Warwick Close , Birkenhead , was accused after it was noticed that the licence on her car had been taken out for another vehicle . |
| 12 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 13 | But Lanfranc seems not even to have noticed that the community still followed , however imperfectly , the order of monastic life which had been laid down for all English monasteries a hundred years earlier , of which two copies from the pre-Conquest library at Christ Church , Canterbury , still survive . |
| 14 | Standing at the window in the small front lounge , where a buffet had been laid out for those guests arriving late , or for people who were still hungry , she saw Feargal accompany Phena , and the man who had been her constant companion at the wedding , walk down the path . |
| 15 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 16 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 17 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 18 | Mr O'Malley said a decision had been put off for 48 hours to permit a special investigation of Mr Reynolds ' allegation by Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton . |