Example sentences of "[vb past] been for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 2 | The arrangement Sting had signed with Virgin had been for a 50–50 split , rising to 60–40 in Sting 's favour after two years . |
| 3 | Where the reference was automatic ( £1,000 or less only being involved ) Ord 19 , r 6 provides that no solicitors ' charges or litigant in person costs may be awarded except the costs which were stated on the summons or which would have been stated on the summons if the claim had been for a liquidated sum , the costs of enforcing the award , and such further costs as the arbitrator may direct where there has been unreasonable conduct on the part of the opposite party in relation to the proceedings or the claim therein . |
| 4 | He was , as golf professionals had been for a hundred years , a serf . |
| 5 | He had been for a second interview last Tuesday morning and had a nail biting few days till all was confirmed on Friday last for a start yesterday , 22nd March . |
| 6 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 7 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 8 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 9 | Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’ |
| 10 | The original plan had been for a rapid take-over of military and political control in Madrid , accompanied by risings in the other main cities and the convergence on the capital of detachments from the provinces to consolidate the coup and force the transfer of power . |
| 11 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 12 | Another knight , perhaps emboldened by his companion 's hints , argued that the removal of the wool staple from Calais , where it had helped to pay part of the cost of defending the town , had been for the private profit of Lord Latimer , Richard Lyons and others . |
| 13 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 14 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 15 | My suit case was ready packed and had been for the last week . |
| 16 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 17 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |