Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] for [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sentence of Poindexter 's former subordinate , Oliver North , had been overturned for similar reasons in July 1990 [ see p. 37605 ] , but the appellate panel now went further by refusing to allow Walsh to return to the trial judge and attempt to show that the trial testimony was not tainted , as had been permitted in North 's case . |
| 2 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The shortest route through Kent , entering London from the south , was clearly the best but had been rejected for political reasons , he added . |
| 5 | A total of 2,500 civilians had been killed for political reasons in Colombia [ see also pp. 37484-85 ] , while in Peru hundreds had " disappeared " or had been murdered or tortured by government security forces [ see also pp. 37485-86 ] . |
| 6 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 7 | It was true that men had been killed for less reason . |
| 8 | But the jury accepted that a page of the statement had been substituted for legitimate reasons . |
| 9 | The figures had been changed for political reasons . |
| 10 | The place was fairly close to his parents ' home and possibly had been chosen for that reason . |
| 11 | There was of course no longer need for missio , a remedy which had been designed for equitable reasons to allow a trust beneficiary to triumph over the constraints imposed by the limitation of trust protection to remedies in personam . |
| 12 | There should have been a large timber column but this had been removed for some reason many years ago and led to the roof sagging some 4 ’ . |