Example sentences of "had been [adj] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
| 2 | Sartori had been indulgent for the weeks they 'd been together . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had been ready for the road , then Mr Arthur died . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mother and Leo had been seasick for the duration of the crossing and had lain inert on deck-chairs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Denning had referred in his report to their speeches in the House on 21 March 1963 and had commented that their remarks clearly imputed that Profumo had been responsible for the disappearance of Christine Keeler . |
| 11 | Sam had been responsible for the departure of her mother 's lover , but Pam had not complained openly , since it put all of them in a bad light : her lover had been revealed as pusillanimous , Sam as a harridan and herself as a person of no control or strength of will . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | The issue of the Securitate , which had maintained Ceausescu in power and had been responsible for the bloodshed in the week following the revolution , was another factor which fuelled mistrust . |
| 14 | As a consequence of its success , the Northumbrian establishment which had been responsible for the débâcle of Nechtanesmere and the limited recovery under Aldfrith perpetuated itself in power a little longer and sporadic warfare with the Picts was resumed . |
| 15 | Although the assassination of Buckingham could have provided a fresh start , on the assumption that he had been responsible for the King 's policies , there was no redress of grievances . |
| 16 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 17 | Two other Grand Councillors , appointed at the same time , were Leslie Edwards , who had been responsible for the organisation of the Cardiff gathering , and Alec Taylor , who had been a member of the BDDA since 1907 , and a Vice-president since 1937 . |
| 18 | ‘ He lost his temper when he assumed the children had been responsible for the doors being open . ’ |
| 19 | It is true that oceanic , river , lake , and only rudimentary land transport had been responsible for the extension of Christendom and the transfer of Iberian culture to Latin America and elsewhere , for the establishment of Dutch power in the East , British hegemony in India , French authority in North Africa , and the carving out of the great territories of white settlement . |
| 20 | After the war , Elliott had been responsible for the interrogation of the Russian spy Kim Philby before he defected . |
| 21 | The Netherlands space agency , NIVR , had been responsible for the spacecraft that carries the telescope , and which houses the instruments to control the satellite 's ‘ attitude ’ , or pointing direction , and to store the data collected . |
| 22 | The third class of sites covers those developed linear and road-junction sites where increasingly centralized tendencies had been responsible for the growth of an irregular internal street system well beyond the initial main roads . |
| 23 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 24 | For a time she had even innocently believed that Luke 's father 's recent death had been responsible for the anger she had sensed in him , until she gradually grew aware that it was something personal , directed at her , his dealings with most of the station 's personnel characterised by charm , his impatience with any inadequacies purely professional . |
| 25 | It was Allen he asked as though he believed it was he who had been responsible for the verderer 's disappearance . |
| 26 | The Emperor Henry III had been responsible for the appointment of Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) , the great reforming pope , to whom Pope Gregory VII ( Hildebrand , 1073 – 85 ) owed so much . |
| 27 | If he was indeed the highwayman who had terrorised the area for the past year he had been responsible for the murders of a number of men and women already . |
| 28 | The Field Marshal was to be tried on two counts : the first , that he had been responsible for the killing of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome and the second that he had incited his troops to act with unnecessary force against the partisans . |
| 29 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 30 | Developed by a team of ex-Digital Research programmers , mainly people who had been responsible for the GEM environment , it was taken on by Xerox who , much to everyone 's amazement , managed to market the product worldwide . |