Example sentences of "in [noun prp] had been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 2 | Originally , some 424 acres ( 170 hectares ) of land in Cramlington had been designated for industrial development . |
| 3 | By Nov. 15 , 25 students in Oujda had been sentenced for up to nine years in prison for involvement in the disturbances . |
| 4 | In December 1989 officials refused to comment on reports that nine men arrested by police in August had been spying for Singapore . |
| 5 | The bovine TB bacterium was first isolated from a badger in June 1971 , some 20 years after farmers in Cornwall had been ridiculed for suggesting that badgers were involved in the spread of TB to cattle . |
| 6 | Gen. Ricardo Contreras , head of the Army Intelligence Battalion ( BIE ) which in September had been exposed for tapping civilian telephones [ see p. 39092 ] . |