Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] been [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 2 | After two months , a settlement of 17 per cent was agreed , but the green light had been given for others to follow on . |
| 3 | It was doubtful if the equipment had been used for years . |
| 4 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 5 | Reports pointed out that though the act had been passed for women 's protection , it seemed it was being used almost exclusively to punish poor women . |
| 6 | The Lakeland fells had been baked for weeks under cloudless skies ; the becks were dry and the tarns warm enough to give refreshing dips . |
| 7 | When the aircraft took off , at last , with a mere 18 missiles , no clearance had been given for overflights between Tel Aviv and Tehran . |
| 8 | The Danish Foreign Ministry announced on July 15 that a Russian diplomat had been expelled for activities incompatible with his status . |
| 9 | First , a new model of management had been introduced for managers to emulate , based on private sector practices and precepts . |
| 10 | Right at the end a glass pavilion had been built for concerts and parties , and Gran said people had come from as far away as Lancaster . |
| 11 | Although the existence of nitrate pollution and its health implications had been known for decades , in the UK it was not thought to be much of a problem until 1984 . |
| 12 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 13 | Prayer Services at the Chaplaincy had been arranged for Mondays , Tuesdays and Thursdays . |
| 14 | Other Western diplomats , local journalists and most political analysts claimed , however , that the coup had been rumoured for weeks and had a level of sophistication far greater than that expected from mostly illiterate soldiers in the ranks . |
| 15 | It had long been a controversial issue and its approval had been delayed for years because of worries about the environmental consequences and the cost of the project . |
| 16 | Even her departure had been delayed for weeks for want of the funds necessary to fit out her ship and escort . |
| 17 | He spoke of the close links what had been forged through trade with Spain and Portugal , whose wines had been exchanged for skins , wool and fish . |
| 18 | His flat had been closed for weeks and the fridge was empty . |
| 19 | The Carolingians ' heartlands , that is , the area where most of their estates were clustered , and where Franks had been settled for centuries , spanned modern Belgium and the Netherlands , northern France , and western Germany , thus lying athwart the " natural " frontiers of the Ardennes forest , and the rivers Meuse and Rhine . |
| 20 | His close associate Klaus Barbie had been sentenced for crimes against humanity in 1987 [ see p. 35417 ] and had died in prison in 1991 [ see p. 38459 ] . |
| 21 | This reply , however , turned out to be incorrect , as teachers had been asked for pen-portraits of the children for use at the Panel Hearings , and the Acting Director of Education Mike Drever had supported the request . |
| 22 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 23 | About the year 1800 , or just afterwards , my great-great-grandfather , John Hey , moved from Shelley in the parish of Kirkburton , where his ancestors had been settled for centuries , to the village of Thurlstone . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it noted , in Germany 44 per cent of asylum applications came from eastern Europe in 1989 , while in Austria visa requirements had been imposed for Bulgarians , Poles and Romanians during 1990 [ see pp. 37969 ; 38464 ] . |
| 25 | It would appear that either the values had been substituted by the supplier ( without warning ) or the capacitors had been mistaken for components having an identical capacitance value but with a much reduced voltage rating . |
| 26 | The city had been besieged for months but at last a breach had been forced in one of the walls . |
| 27 | Where there was evidence to show that such a decision had been taken for reasons of national security , this would be accepted to ‘ preclude judicial investigation of [ the ] particular … grievance ’ . |
| 28 | The broken stag had been known for years . |
| 29 | The clock had been removed for repairs and only a small hook remained in the wall . |
| 30 | No date had been set for pesticides to meet the MACs in Severn Trent . |