Example sentences of "been [verb] [adj] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Even in these circumstances project support would still in all cases be cheaper than hospital care , and in four cases cheaper than residential care ( and only a proportion of these clients would have been considered eligible for residential care ) . |
| 3 | Briefly , it stated that sixty-six coupons had been considered adequate for normal use . |
| 4 | £50,000 has been made available for such upgrading work in the 1992/93 Capital Budget . |
| 5 | At the time of writing , the 1881 census is the latest to have been made available for public consultation because of the restriction imposed by the 100 years rule . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In an era in which prevailing political opinion has opposed increases in legislation , most of the other areas have not been found appropriate for legislative action . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 11 | The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work . |
| 12 | He had been feeling cold for some time . |
| 13 | This same invincible figure has been held responsible for some blunder , or has for some other reason fallen out of favour with his employers , leaves the house where he came to fame and is never heard of again . |