Example sentences of "the [noun sg] had be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman James Unruh said the decision had been painful for Unisys , but that the company saw little choice . |
| 2 | Also the division had been responsible for organizing 5 cinema meetings and a number of smaller meetings during the campaign weeks . |
| 3 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 4 | Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn . |
| 5 | Volume iv was issued in 1908 , volume v in 1912 , and volume vi in 1921 ( by which time the author had been dead for five years ) . |
| 6 | According to the authorities the commando had been responsible for a number of recent attacks in the province of Bilbao , which had claimed the lives of five people . |
| 7 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 8 | From the head 's point of view , the library had been underfunded for some time with an annual capitation of some £860 , supplemented ( not always willingly ) by a 5% levy on the capitation of each department . |
| 9 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 10 | Wheeler , who in the past had been unprepared for much in life , was not leaving placement to chance . |
| 11 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 12 | She noted the greasy chenille tablecloth which was threadbare where the table edge cut into it — a sure sign , Nelly knew , that the cloth had been undisturbed for many months . |
| 13 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 14 | It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time , perhaps even since it had been laid to rest . |
| 15 | Peter Armstrong , prosecuting , said the couple had been married for a year but had lived together for four years before marrying . |
| 16 | The Chief had been quiet for a kilometre or two . |
| 17 | Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years . |
| 18 | Gwrych Castle was offered rent-free by Lord Dundonald — who also made a grant towards rates and taxes and paid half the cost of repairs — a necessarily generous offer since the castle had been uninhabited for over fifteen years . |
| 19 | Rabah Kebir , a senior figure in the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) who had reportedly escaped from house arrest in August and was said to be attempting to form an Islamist government in exile , said in an interview with Le Monde of Sept. 18 that the FIS wanted a dialogue with the government , and denied that the party had been responsible for the Algiers airport bombing , or for the assassination in June of the former HCS President , Mohamed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 ] . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 22 | Now , late on Sunday afternoon , people were saying that the weather had been perfect for both days of the two-day Show . |
| 23 | The weather had been fine for some days and the mood was right . |
| 24 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |
| 25 | I mean it looked like the house had been derelict for forty years . |
| 26 | She said the house had been damp for a year and she had complained to the council on numerous occasions . |
| 27 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |
| 28 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 29 | The house had been empty for some time now and beginning to feel lonely . |