Example sentences of "had been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 32 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 33 | The majority of leg ulcers ( 291 : 62 per cent ) had been present for under two years , 48 per cent ( 141 ) of these for less than six months . |
| 34 | Of the remaining 176 ( 38 per cent ) , 16 had been present for 20–45 years and two for an astonishing 50 years . |
| 35 | The Brockwells had been present for all the evidence at the Palais de Justice in Paris . |
| 36 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |
| 37 | About twice a day , she 'd ask herself whether this move had been right for him . |
| 38 | His father had been right for once : she would make him the perfect match . |
| 39 | Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years . |
| 40 | In the old days before the local government reorganization of 1974 , it had been possible for Local Education Authorities to make their decisions relatively autonomously , with a view to the educational needs of local children , and under the guidance of often very high-powered and imaginative Chief Education Officers . |
| 41 | However , since there had been open and vigorous debate about what everyone wanted , it had been possible for her to exercise considerable discretion on the department 's behalf when ordering , or selecting at book suppliers . |
| 42 | If it had been possible for a bird to stop still with surprise in the air , and stay exactly where it was , that rook would have done it then . |
| 43 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 44 | Until 1925 it had been possible for Communists to be represented in all sections of the Labour Party but at the liverpool Conference it was decided to exclude them from membership . |
| 45 | The weather had been typical for August with a period of heavy rain and the men returning to work found that a land slip had occurred . |
| 46 | She asked after you and was pleased when I told her how well your business was doing and that you seemed in good spirits since she said she had been anxious for you . |
| 47 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
| 48 | In the circumstances ( that is , of Jack 's plan to have his wife and mistress under one roof ) it had been necessary for Patrick to move , and Patrick , being distinctly better , had moved , or had been moved . |
| 49 | He had been best man at their wedding — a formidable pre-nuptial agreement had been necessary for that capitulation — and had carried out his duties with a mixture of incompetence , vulgarity and irreverence which , as she occasionally enjoyed telling Norman , had spoilt for her the memory of her big day . |
| 50 | But if it had been necessary for me to do so , I would have concluded that the whole loss should be borne by Union Discount . |
| 51 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |
| 52 | When her father died it had been necessary for her to do some kind of work and the training in librarianship had seemed the most suitable . |
| 53 | When Godoy was contemplating patriotism his enemy Ferdinand , who had been intriguing for French support for some months , put all his faith in Napoleon 's endorsement of the revolution of Aranjuez . |
| 54 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 55 | Dunlop parish had been long-famed for its dairy produce . |
| 56 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 57 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
| 58 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 59 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 60 | 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 . |