Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] considerable [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The budget was the first to be based on President Hashemi Rafsanjani 's development plan for 1989-93 , which had been adopted after considerable debate at the end of January 1990 . |
| 2 | The words and their phrasing left no doubt that the princess had been placed under considerable pressure to speak out publicly for the first time since her marriage to Prince Charles . |
| 3 | Despite the occasional call for a militant renewal of the Leavisian enterprise , by 1970 every one of its fundamental ideological props had been subjected to considerable strain . |
| 4 | Behind him the door of the house whose occupant he had just been interviewing had been dosed with considerable firmness . |
| 5 | A flexible engineering system had been introduced after considerable debate about the worthwhileness of the investment . |