Example sentences of "had been [verb] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been built for Mr King 's grandfather in the days when he was known as Collector of Mails . |
| 2 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 3 | The strike had erupted on Oct. 3 over the interpretation of a collective labour contract , and a general strike had been planned for Oct. 16 by 100,000 other banana workers affiliated to the Confederation of Honduran Workers in support of those on strike . |
| 4 | This exercise had been planned for September 1992 , but was now brought forward . |
| 5 | That had been reserved for Nicholas and even there , le Grant wondered how far it was genuine . |
| 6 | Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism . |
| 7 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 8 | Miguel took the card and wrote on it what had been done for Samantha . |
| 9 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 10 | Tritsch Tratsch had been mounted for Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet ( the first performance was at a matinée on 20 September 1947 ) and was an immediate success . |
| 11 | The usual monthly council meeting followed , and Jill Francis said that a village footpath walking weekend had been arranged for July 4th to 5th . |
| 12 | Giving as its reason police brutality against black protesters , in particular at Sebokeng , the ANC broke off its first preliminary meeting with the government , which had been scheduled for April 11 . |
| 13 | Concern over the military government 's tight control over the transition to civilian rule was heightened on July 17 when Vice-President Augustus Aikhomu announced that the new National Assembly , whose opening session had been scheduled for July 27 , would not be sworn in until after the election of a civilian president . |
| 14 | The conference had been scheduled for May [ see pp. 38665-66 ] , and a government statement of May 8 emphasized that the government still had a " firm determination to hold the sovereign national conference " . |
| 15 | On Feb. 18 the North suspended the fourth round of Premiers ' talks which had been scheduled for Feb. 25-28 , but agreement was reached the same month on joint sports teams [ see p. 38010 ; see also pp. 38341 ; 38437 ; 38529 ; 38576 ] . |
| 16 | By the end of 1991 it was apparent that the referendum to determine the future of the Western Sahara , which had been scheduled for Jan. 26 , would have to be postponed for at least nine months . |
| 17 | The second round of voting in the general election , which had been scheduled for Jan. 16 , had in the meantime been cancelled by an existing body , the High Security Council , which included Prime Minister Sid-Ahmed Ghozali . |
| 18 | In addition , an attack toward Cambrai had been scheduled for November , and an offensive was due to begin in Italy . |
| 19 | The maiden flight of the A-12 had been scheduled for November 1991 , with a view to the aircraft becoming operational in the mid-1990s . |
| 20 | The referendum had been scheduled for November but had been postponed at the request of the political parties following the transitional government 's evident difficulties in drawing up a voters ' register . |
| 21 | They had been made for Maria by a Polish émigré , Floryan Wyspianski , a man in his early thirties , who had settled in Budapest after the war . |
| 22 | It was widely reported that the UK had unsuccessfully argued at the committee meeting for a total suspension of the ERM and also that requests had been made for Germany to reduce its interest rates . |
| 23 | The first half was in Malta and the second half in Monsummano-Terme and arrangements had been made for David to fly out there with Ken Pitt and perform ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ , one of the songs on David 's first album . |
| 24 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 25 | He was awakened later by the sound of laughter and , heaving himself out of his chair , he joined two Tories , John Taylor , the unsuccessful candidate for Cheltenham , and Mirj Deva , who had been elected for Brentford and Isleworth . |
| 26 | Now that preparations had been completed for Artai 's enthronement there was very little to do , and the normal business of the court — administration , legislation , taxation — had all but come to a halt . |
| 27 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |
| 28 | According to security sources , massive bombs which wrecked neighbouring towns , had been destined for Portadown . |
| 29 | More important is the fact that many of the draft 's boldest strokes would seem a lot more realistic if they had been destined for Mark Fisher and a Labour government . |
| 30 | Trevor Ford , the aggressive Welsh centre-forward , who had been signed for Sunderland as part of Ditchburn 's lavish spending programme ( earning Sunderland the name of ‘ The Bank of England club ’ ) , confirmed that abuse of the system was widespread in the First Division . |