Example sentences of "[noun pl] had be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote to Hanns about the time when wigs had been needed for Dulcie 's ballet Fête galante , and one of the part-time dancers in the Ballet Club , a hairdresser by trade , offered to make them , from papier-mâché . |
| 2 | If these ten poorest readers had been selected for remedial teaching during the six-month period a ( probably ) spurious improvement in spelling would be inferred . |
| 3 | Malan ignored calls in Parliament for his resignation from both the Democratic Party ( DP ) and the CP — the latter on the grounds that right-wing organizations had been blamed for what had in reality been the activities of the CCB . |
| 4 | Problems there certainly were : the disentangling of assets with multiple uses ( for example , some offices had been used for gas billing as well as for electricity ) inevitably caused some headaches . |
| 5 | The eyes had been bred for the glare , the body for the heat . |
| 6 | Rotation was continued until the gall bladder was clear on fluoroscopy and no impacts had been felt for five minutes . |
| 7 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 8 | The Red Cross said that as of yesterday morning 285 survivors had been accounted for , but other sources put the number of survivors at only about 150. — Reuter |
| 9 | A senior Customs and Excise source said yesterday that all the relevant ministries had been approached for evidence during that time , yet not one warned them off . |
| 10 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 11 | It is possible that this unexpected increase may not have occurred if a greater number of subjects had been used for the shadowing tasks . |
| 12 | Consecutive sentences of three months had been passed for two offences of driving while disqualified , with a further six months consecutive for an excess alcohol offence . |
| 13 | Since the beginning of the war demands had been made for the internment of naturalized aliens , and a spy mania developed . |
| 14 | It was announced in February that since the adoption of the law on joint ventures in January 1989 [ see p. 37012 ] 2,799 permits had been issued for foreign companies , which had contributed US$374,000,000 in initial capital . |
| 15 | Barges had been destroyed for fuel or left by their previous owners to be broken up by ice or swept downstream by the spring floods . |
| 16 | Both these areas had been proposed for SPA status by the Nature Conservancy Council , in August 1990 and July 1988 respectively , but no progress has been made . |
| 17 | Yesterday , Coun Davies said she understood that bids had been invited for exploration of the coastal region which included Aberconwy . |
| 18 | The Lakeland fells had been baked for weeks under cloudless skies ; the becks were dry and the tarns warm enough to give refreshing dips . |
| 19 | Additional models had been proposed for Northern Europe where a classic sequence of glaciations and interglacials had been proposed based on the investigation of sequences on the North European Plain and in Scandinavia ; in the British Isles ; and in central North America ( Bowen , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | According to the Middle East Times of June 11-17 , up to 115 of the 150 public-sector companies had been selected for privatization . |
| 21 | More than 2,000 companies had been earmarked for privatization in March . |
| 22 | Gresham chairman Sid Green professed himself ‘ modestly satisfied ’ with the company 's pre-tax profit of £767,000 on sales of £7.25m — last year 's sales were £6.29m but the two companies had been combined for only part of the accounting period . |
| 23 | And the demand for jam jars had been so great that even salvage dumps and cemeteries had been searched for extra supplies . |
| 24 | It was reported on Aug. 1 that 30 of the country 's 60 active investigative judges had been dismissed for incompetence , the head of the Department of National Security ( DAS ) , Gen. Miguel Marza Márquez , stating that they were " responsible " for unsolved crimes [ see p. 37529 for dismissals from armed forces and police ] . |
| 25 | And so the lines had been drawn for the battle that still raged , feminists and FAMILY glaring balefully at each other over the dying body of the welfare state . |
| 26 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 27 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 28 | In the Dec. 28 elections held in Nagorny Karabakh for its self-proclaimed republican Supreme Soviet [ see p. 38657 ] , 11 of the 81 seats had been reserved for Azerbaijani deputies , but not taken up . |
| 29 | None of the other parties apparently secured the 7 per cent minimum required to achieve representation , although five seats had been reserved for the two Christian Assyrian Parties . |
| 30 | The seats had been paid for by the City Corporation . |