Example sentences of "[noun sg] had been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 2 | SMETANA and Dvorak — the RSNO 's programme had been tailor-made for Walter Weller and one had looked forward to a good wallow ; to tunes , and torrents of the particularly lush sounds he and his orchestra make together . |
| 3 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 4 | The old lady had been deaf for years and had what she called a ‘ thing-gummyjig ’ on her telephone receiver which was intended to help her hear her callers more clearly . |
| 5 | The government , denying UNITA 's accusations , gave details of the confinement of over 22,500 troops and claimed that proposals on the election process had been ready for approval on Sept. 10 , but that UNITA had taken an " obstructionist position " . |
| 6 | The return of the Emperor to France and the subsequent declaration of war had been good for Harper 's trade ; a good hunter stolen from a Protestant plantation in Ireland would fetch a prime price in England where so many officers equipped themselves for the campaign . |
| 7 | But Major , Patten , Douglas Hurd , Kenneth Clarke , and even Michael Heseltine , were left with no choice but to argue that Thatcherism had been good for Britain . |
| 8 | Alien species beating natives on their home ground had been decisive for Lyell 's species extinction theorising , where the analogy with the European human conquests over America Indians was explicit . |
| 9 | No recording of Jenkins 's music had been available for years before the Thorofon CD , and now this Astrée issue comes onto the market , as if to underline how huge a gap in the recorded repertoire that was . |
| 10 | ( Prior to World War I , where gas had been available for cooking , it was often used only for the Sunday dinner . ) |
| 11 | Chairman James Unruh said the decision had been painful for Unisys , but that the company saw little choice . |
| 12 | Unkiar-Skelessi had been due for renewal anyway . |
| 13 | Their advisers , Kleinwort Benson , a City bank , claimed that the Al Fayed family had been wealthy for generations . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before . |