Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers . |
| 2 | An emergency bridging loan to the value of US$247,500,000 , granted by the Japan , Mexico , Spain , Taiwan , Venezuela and the USA , in June , restored multilateral lines of credit cut off since November 1989 , when the previous government had been declared ineligible for further assistance by the IMF [ see p. 37039 ] . |
| 3 | Even the small river Slea had been made navigable for light craft and Sleaford had benefited from ‘ a cheap and easy transit for corn , coal , timber , stone , lime and other merchandise , to and from Boston , Lincoln and other places ’ . |
| 4 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
| 5 | Briefly , it stated that sixty-six coupons had been considered adequate for normal use . |
| 6 | Even the gaping hole left by de Bonneval 's precipitate retreat on Belleville Ridge had been plugged before the over-cautious Germans could exploit it — although it had been left open for twelve hours . |