Example sentences of "had [adv] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time of the second inquiry the house had effectively been abandoned for nearly twenty years and was suffering from extensive coal mining subsidence ; and it was likely to suffer still more in the future . |
| 2 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |
| 3 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 4 | The main stumbling block had been the appointment of its chair [ see pp. 37712 ; 37777 ; 37858 ] , a problem temporarily resolved on Dec. 11 when Prince Norodom Sihanouk , who had hitherto been pressing for the chairmanship , called on the SNC to " stop talking about the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship … and have the 12 SNC members , on an equal footing , work for peace " . |
| 5 | The Finnish government had hitherto been pressing for a change in the plans , to incorporate a special section allowing passage for rigs over 65 metres high . |
| 6 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 7 | The building materials used on the three houses referred to in ( b ) above had cost £18,000 and had all been paid for by December 1990 . |
| 8 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 9 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 10 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 11 | It seemed that Belov had only been waiting for her to ask . |
| 12 | In the big front room the flags were as good as new — no wear at all — and Hannah told me it had only been used for funerals and pig-killings . |
| 13 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 14 | The snow had obviously been falling for hours , probably while she was still watching The Blue Angel . |
| 15 | A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building . |
| 16 | The Suffolk Dun , according to Arthur Young in 1794 , had long been celebrated for its magnanimous milk yield , said to be the highest in the country in proportion to its body size and food intake . |
| 17 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 18 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 19 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 20 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 21 | The remaining vote was declared invalid due to a technicality , although it had apparently been cast for Jones . |
| 22 | It had apparently been arranged for the drugs to be delivered to a warehouse in Bristol . |
| 23 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 24 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 25 | By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months . |
| 26 | Well , to be strictly truthful , camp had already been made for us by some hi-tech realtors . |
| 27 | A method had already been developed for salvaging institutions and legacies which were defective : the principle plus nuncupatum minus scriptum was applied . |
| 28 | It is also possible that seasonal meeting places had already been determined for the exchange of goods and people as well as social intercourse . |
| 29 | Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house . |
| 30 | Many shrewd judges , both on the veldt and in England , though that the Springbok selectors were taking a massive gamble with Griffin , who had already been called for throwing in his own country , especially as unfair bowling had lately become a major issue . |