Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " 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 | Until about 20 years ago the citadel still served as barracks and prison , and seems to have been thought suitable for confining revolutionaries . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rule 5 strikes a note familiar to all Sunday School teachers and Superintendents : ‘ Scholars who shall have been marked absent for twelve Sabbaths of the year shall not be entitled to be present at the Annual Festival Excursion . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 14 | In the most recent presidential elections , in October 1990 , Houphouët-Boigny , who had previously been elected unopposed for six terms , was unsuccessfully challenged by an opposition party candidate and won a seventh term [ see p. 37767 ] . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The prisoners have been held incommunicado for eighteen years . |