Example sentences of "[pron] had been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was braced to cope with him because I had been ambitious for Jean-Claude , vauntingly so . |
| 2 | This was an unusually clear and succinct statement of assumptions which had been current for generations . |
| 3 | The corporation will pay the estimated £250,000 costs of the action , which had been due for trial in January . |
| 4 | Also recommended was the withdrawal from the townships of the most controversial of the security forces , the former Namibian counterinsurgency unit Koevoet ( " Crowbar " ) and 32 battalion , members of which had been responsible for rape and other assaults during " peacekeeping " operations . |
| 5 | The principal families of the Khanate were all interrelated , and so it was not hard to understand why the defective genes which had been responsible for Nogai 's early death recurred in so many of his blood . |
| 6 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 7 | Had he not been she might have telephoned him instead of Nick , when she had been desperate for company . |
| 8 | Two patients who had been negative for dysplasia were found to have low grade dysplasia in their colectomy specimens . |
| 9 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 10 | Despite Lenin 's theory of national self-determination , the new Soviet Union still embraced the great bulk of the old imperial domains , including minorities like the Georgians and the Ukrainians who had been civilized for centuries before the denizens of what was to become Muscovy . |
| 11 | Five others who had been eligible for parole following the first trial were now imprisoned . |
| 12 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 13 | It had been dark for hours . |
| 14 | It had been dry for weeks , but there were thunderheads over against the mountains and the atmosphere was heavy with the hint of rain . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 18 | He never kept a catalogue of his stock , so it had been easy for Cleo to pour out a generous measure from each flagon on the upper shelf in Wakelate 's workroom . |
| 19 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Although they knew that it was a volcano , it had been dormant for centuries , and they had no records whatever of any eruptions . |
| 22 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 23 | For long before 1946 , it had been customary for Parliament to preserve an oversight of such central government delegated legislation by requiring that such legislation be laid before it in some form or another . |
| 24 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 25 | Although it had been common for surgeons to expect suppuration of the wound as an inevitable concomitant of amputation , Alanson demonstrated that by these methods it was possible for these wounds to heal ‘ by the first intention ’ , that is , without significant infection . |
| 26 | It had been useless for Denis to protest that Iron Josh was an outsider with no involvement in their cause one way or the other . |
| 27 | He felt light-headed , as if he had been awake for days on end . |
| 28 | Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime of 1974 , was conditionally released from imprisonment in Cyprus on April 28 ; he had been due for release in March 1994 [ see also p. 38450 ] . |
| 29 | Whilst with Tangye Ltd. he had been responsible for machinery used by the Saltburn , North Yorkshire cliff railway . |
| 30 | He had been old for years and grown so fat in the stomach that he puffed when he stooped . |