Example sentences of "had been [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 2 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 3 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 4 | At the Police Federation meeting held at the Marton Hotel , Middlesbrough , it was revealed this year 34 juveniles had been bailed for 108 offences in Hartlepool . |
| 5 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 6 | On Assembly Sunday , the one just after Christian Aid Week , the visiting preacher , Rev. Stewart Matthew , told us that the day before , under the dripping trees of Holyrood , he had met a young man who had told him with pride and joy that over £13,000 had been raised for Christian Aid at his church . |
| 7 | A new head of History had been appointed for next term to release the pastoral coordinator from a ‘ caretaker ’ role as head of History , a scale 3 second in department for English had been appointed by promoting an existing member of the department and an early retirement application had been granted . |
| 8 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 9 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 10 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 11 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 12 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 13 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 14 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 15 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 16 | The sentence of Poindexter 's former subordinate , Oliver North , had been overturned for similar reasons in July 1990 [ see p. 37605 ] , but the appellate panel now went further by refusing to allow Walsh to return to the trial judge and attempt to show that the trial testimony was not tainted , as had been permitted in North 's case . |
| 17 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 18 | In the Dec. 28 elections held in Nagorny Karabakh for its self-proclaimed republican Supreme Soviet [ see p. 38657 ] , 11 of the 81 seats had been reserved for Azerbaijani deputies , but not taken up . |
| 19 | A national survey in 1979 found that whereas 22 per cent of boys from ‘ lower-manual ’ families had been convicted for criminal offences , only 4 per cent of boys from ‘ upper-middle ’ families had been . |
| 20 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 21 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 22 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 23 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |
| 24 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 25 | Indeed , I recall being present at a formal state banquet in Malawi when the Life President , His Excellency the very elderly Dr Hastings Banda , had been speaking for 45 minutes proposing the toast and had still only reached 1947 . |
| 26 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 27 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 28 | After either Nicocheck or Nicotine Patch had been worn for 24 hours plasma nicotine ( 0.2 µg/l ) and cotinine ( 0.2 µg/l ) concentrations were unchanged , indicating no absorption . |
| 29 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 30 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |