Example sentences of "had been [adj] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 2 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |
| 3 | If it had been possible for a bird to stop still with surprise in the air , and stay exactly where it was , that rook would have done it then . |
| 4 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
| 5 | But it had been simmering for a couple of years before that . |
| 6 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 7 | Sartori had been indulgent for the weeks they 'd been together . |
| 8 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
| 9 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 10 | It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park . |
| 11 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 12 | They reflected a concept that had been current for a number of years , that experiments in planning free zones ought to be devised ( Banham et al . , |
| 13 | Peter Armstrong , prosecuting , said the couple had been married for a year but had lived together for four years before marrying . |
| 14 | As they were mainly couples who had been married for a number of years and were now able to move to a larger , more expensive home , their children ranged in age between seven and nineteen years . |
| 15 | Although involved in the Great Leap Forward ( 1958-60 ) and the Cultural Revolution ( 1966-76 ) , he later recognized that both had been disastrous for the country 's economic development . |
| 16 | Sartre 's philosophical grounding of ‘ History ’ , therefore , foundered in the second volume when the logic of history inexorably brought him , not to totalization without a totalizer , but to the very reverse : the figure of Stalin and the conclusion that Stalinism had been indispensable for the development of socialism in the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | ( The French population tended to shift to the towns much more slowly ; we are told the rate was about 3 per cent per decade down to 1911 , and this had been true for a century . ) |
| 18 | The first seven members of the Roseberry co-operative had been unemployed for an average of five years and seven months when they began working on the Langridge Crescent site , and their growing band of colleagues has continued to include those frequently bypassed by mainstream employers in the construction industry : a deaf and dumb carpenter , a former labourer with a history of heart trouble , a young woman training to be a painter and others . |
| 19 | She had been ready for the road , then Mr Arthur died . |
| 20 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 21 | She had been worried for a bit but now she was certain . |
| 22 | SIGARUP HAD BEEN ILL FOR A WEEK . |
| 23 | Linkworth had been dead for an hour . |
| 24 | Mother and Leo had been seasick for the duration of the crossing and had lain inert on deck-chairs . |
| 25 | Warsaw police confirmed on April 24 that arsonists had been responsible for a fire on April 22 at the home of Jerzy Jachowicz , a journalist on Gazeta Wyborcza , in which his wife had been killed and his daughter injured . |
| 26 | They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity . |
| 27 | He had been responsible for a number of important buildings which , as well as the Public Record Office , included part of the Ordnance Office ( 1850–1 ) , the Museum of Economic Geology in Piccadilly ( 1847–8 ) and the western portion of Somerset House ( 1851–6 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The big oil strike near Tollemarche had been responsible for an upheaval in the existing order ; and the fight for social status , before a fixed pecking order could be re-established , was a ruthless one , waged in every drawing-room , church hall and charitable institution . |
| 30 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |