Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [been] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 2 | Quite a few of his country clients had been late for their appointments , or had failed to turn up at all , and the story was always the same : British troops had boarded the train as passengers so the driver or the fireman or the guard or ticket-collector — sometimes all four — refused to work and the train never moved . |
| 3 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 4 | Party contributions had been compulsory for all citizens prior to the RPT 's dissolution . |
| 5 | Warsaw police confirmed on April 24 that arsonists had been responsible for a fire on April 22 at the home of Jerzy Jachowicz , a journalist on Gazeta Wyborcza , in which his wife had been killed and his daughter injured . |
| 6 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 7 | The new arrangements had been due for introduction on April 1 but the Government was forced to shelve them last month after dentists threatened a mass exodus from the NHS . |
| 8 | At entry all patients had been seropositive for hepatitis B surface antigen ( HBsAg ) and HBeAg for at least six months . |
| 9 | One patient died of disseminated colonic cancer after three years ( see Table I , patient E ) , the three previous complete annual colonoscopies had been negative for dysplasia . |
| 10 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 11 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 12 | And some of the authoritarian oligarchies had been good for economic growth — as in Brazil in the 1970s , or Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew — while others , like the Greek colonels , had not . |
| 13 | ‘ He lost his temper when he assumed the children had been responsible for the doors being open . ’ |
| 14 | The third class of sites covers those developed linear and road-junction sites where increasingly centralized tendencies had been responsible for the growth of an irregular internal street system well beyond the initial main roads . |
| 15 | An electoral alliance , the Nationalist Action for Peace ( Acción Nacionalista por la Paz ) , was unexpectedly announced on Feb 7 by Carlos Pizarro Leóngómez , leader of the left-wing guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) , and José Joaquín Matallana , a former Army general who as Director of the Department for the Administration of Security ( DAS ) in the mid-1970s had been responsible for combating the activities of the M-19 and other guerrilla groups . |
| 16 | Sartori had been indulgent for the weeks they 'd been together . |
| 17 | In the meantime , plans had been afoot for a combined British and American force , known as the Allied First Army , to land on French North African shores — this occurred on 8th , November 1942 , and those forces moved eastward towards the advancing British Eighth Army . |
| 18 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 19 | They also found that the ex-married women had been married for about eight years , on average , before becoming lone mothers . |
| 20 | People within the health and social services had been aware for years of the patients ' accusations , but nothing was done . |
| 21 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 22 | Charles Lambe denied that the Tories had been responsible for raising the Sacheverell mobs , and blamed the Whigs for instilling into people the idea that " they are the original of government " . |