Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 32 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 33 | The plenum had been delayed for several months , allegedly because of divisions over economic policy between the central and provincial authorities . |
| 34 | This placed an unfortunate obstacle in the path of the police who might otherwise , simply on the grounds of suspicion , make a ‘ clean sweep ’ of all known criminals — a policy that had been advocated for some years by Matthew Davenport Hill , the Recorder of Birmingham — as a sure means to guarantee the safety of the streets . |
| 35 | On Sept. 17 it was announced that the defence and economic co-operation accord between the USA and Turkey had been extended for another year . |
| 36 | Sometimes this research was located in areas where the effects of human activity had been sustained for many centuries . |
| 37 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 38 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 39 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 40 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 41 | As is traditional , the trophies which were won throughout the year had been saved for this occasion and presented to their recipients after dinner . |
| 42 | Moreover , provision had been made for any firm that might become financially insolvent ; in this way , systemic risk was largely averted . |
| 43 | She was happily thinking , Serves him right , a pity there was n't a cloudburst , when across the car park , in an area where the top managers of Vasey 's normally parked their cars , she noticed that room had been made for another car . |
| 44 | No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality . |
| 45 | Bomber Command itself was situated at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire and from there the orders were sent out every day to each Group Headquarters , indicating which target had been selected for that night 's operation , and the Groups then sent on the information to the Commanding Officers at each of the air fields , or ‘ out-stations ’ . |
| 46 | There is little doubt also that within the DES the binary solution had been canvassed for some time , and throughout the life of the Robbins Committee interest in it was being shown in the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes and elsewhere . |
| 47 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 48 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 49 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 50 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 51 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 52 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 53 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 54 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 55 | In fact , even the most basic repairs had been neglected for many years before that , so that structural problems developed where they might have been avoided . |
| 56 | ‘ The house had been neglected for some time , ’ explains Pauline . |
| 57 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 58 | This problem in combining general relativity and the uncertainty principle had been suspected for some time , but was finally confirmed by detailed calculations in 1972 . |
| 59 | The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time . |
| 60 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |