Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there was evidence to show that such a decision had been taken for reasons of national security , this would be accepted to ‘ preclude judicial investigation of [ the ] particular … grievance ’ . |
| 2 | A grant had been obtained for de-silting Swelling Hill Pond . |
| 3 | This was so even when a child had been submitted for expert medical examination . |
| 4 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 5 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 6 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 7 | They went into hiding immediately after , but when they heard that a warrant had been issued for their arrest , Waddell told Gentle he was going to give himself up . |
| 8 | The director had told her most of the cast and crew were staying in the same hotel , and a room had been reserved for her there , too . |
| 9 | Initially a conference had been scheduled for mid-1991 , but the Congolese Trade Union Confederation and many of the opposition parties had appealed to Sassou-Nguesso to bring the date forward . |
| 10 | It was enough for the Church that a corpse had been presented for burial . |
| 11 | The Collector selected just two more of these pistols , a small and reliable five-barrelled pistol by Lefaucheux of Paris , which he wanted to load and give to Miriam , and the English revolving pistol by Adams , which had caused such a stir at Woolwich by its lightness and by the rapidity with which it could be loaded and fired ( up to ten times a minute had been claimed for it ) . |
| 12 | A claim had been made for travel outside the normal operating area , a journey which should have been authorised before it took place . |
| 13 | On 14 June 1913 the ss Columba was moored on the Clyde and manned by members of the BSU on whose behalf a claim had been submitted for a rise of 2s 6d a week . |
| 14 | The tradition referred to earlier that a surgeon had been required for the Empress , maintains that Garvine had to diagnose her illness without being allowed into her presence and that he treated her successfully . |
| 15 | The problems of the system under which the starter operates a lever had been known for some years , but the Jockey Club and the course executive failed to replace it , the report added . |
| 16 | A hole had been dug for the coffin , next to the place where Eileen had been buried only two short years ago , and boards propped the soil up at the sides . |
| 17 | Police said a report had been prepared for the procurator-fiscal and a man is expected to appear at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Monday . |
| 18 | She stooped down to drink where a stone had been set for a firm landing beside a foot-wide pool . |
| 19 | Mr A. D. Williams of Dundee , Chairman of the Group 's Sub-Committee responsible for the issue of statistics , reported to the meeting that a system had been devised for the collection of statistics from the various Centres . |
| 20 | The two girls stayed up for hours , and by the end of the evening a date had been arranged for the Paris adventure , and Clarissa had confided her plan for the Saturday afternoon of the visit . |
| 21 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 22 | A ceasefire had been agreed for the duration of the Supreme Soviet session , but reports emerged on Nov. 21 of a massacre in a refugee camp in the Tursunzadevsky region , near Dushanbe . |
| 23 | I waited ; a pick-up had been arranged for 5.30pm and I was certain it would not fail me . |
| 24 | A palliasse had been laid for me and in a corner were the rolled palliasses of others . |