Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 2 | SMETANA and Dvorak — the RSNO 's programme had been tailor-made for Walter Weller and one had looked forward to a good wallow ; to tunes , and torrents of the particularly lush sounds he and his orchestra make together . |
| 3 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 4 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 5 | Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn . |
| 6 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 7 | An inquiry into the crash concluded in December that pilot error had been responsible for the accident [ see also p. 37898 ] . |
| 8 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 9 | The old lady had been deaf for years and had what she called a ‘ thing-gummyjig ’ on her telephone receiver which was intended to help her hear her callers more clearly . |
| 10 | The shock of finding out about her child had been responsible for her husband 's fatal apoplexy , and she would feel guilty for the rest of her life . |
| 11 | About twice a day , she 'd ask herself whether this move had been right for him . |
| 12 | Volume iv was issued in 1908 , volume v in 1912 , and volume vi in 1921 ( by which time the author had been dead for five years ) . |
| 13 | The government , denying UNITA 's accusations , gave details of the confinement of over 22,500 troops and claimed that proposals on the election process had been ready for approval on Sept. 10 , but that UNITA had taken an " obstructionist position " . |
| 14 | This august body had been responsible for placing the bench we were now sitting on . |
| 15 | The return of the Emperor to France and the subsequent declaration of war had been good for Harper 's trade ; a good hunter stolen from a Protestant plantation in Ireland would fetch a prime price in England where so many officers equipped themselves for the campaign . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The government 's assurances came amidst reports that US officials , meeting with the Crown Prince in March , had submitted evidence showing that one of his sons and a nephew had been responsible for the organization of anti-Palestinian " death squads " . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 20 | But Major , Patten , Douglas Hurd , Kenneth Clarke , and even Michael Heseltine , were left with no choice but to argue that Thatcherism had been good for Britain . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 23 | Polly 's bright cotton skirt and sleeveless white broderie anglaise top had been perfect for shopping in the balmy warmth . |
| 24 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 25 | His father had been right for once : she would make him the perfect match . |
| 26 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 27 | Half the vacant land in the study area had been empty for at least two years and , on the likely level of public and private resources , the consultants predicted that three-quarters would still be vacant in 1980 , five years after their survey . |
| 28 | Miguel 's voice was suddenly very warm , and Shelley remembered that he and his beautiful young assistant had been close for some time . |
| 29 | They accepted the claims without question and assumed , equally without question , that the detained paramilitary men from the Rathcoole district had been responsible for both of the specified shooting atrocities . |
| 30 | From the head 's point of view , the library had been underfunded for some time with an annual capitation of some £860 , supplemented ( not always willingly ) by a 5% levy on the capitation of each department . |