Example sentences of "had been [adj] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather had been typical for August with a period of heavy rain and the men returning to work found that a land slip had occurred . |
| 2 | In the circumstances ( that is , of Jack 's plan to have his wife and mistress under one roof ) it had been necessary for Patrick to move , and Patrick , being distinctly better , had moved , or had been moved . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( Guyana had been ineligible for IMF aid since 1985 — see p. 33977 . ) |
| 6 | Alien species beating natives on their home ground had been decisive for Lyell 's species extinction theorising , where the analogy with the European human conquests over America Indians was explicit . |
| 7 | He never kept a catalogue of his stock , so it had been easy for Cleo to pour out a generous measure from each flagon on the upper shelf in Wakelate 's workroom . |
| 8 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This had been ideal for Ewan 's purposes . |
| 11 | It had been useless for Denis to protest that Iron Josh was an outsider with no involvement in their cause one way or the other . |
| 12 | He had been ready for Tunney . |
| 13 | Chairman James Unruh said the decision had been painful for Unisys , but that the company saw little choice . |
| 14 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 15 | A vengeful Mrs Wallace Reid turned over to police all the names of those she believed had been responsible for Wally 's debauched lifestyle . |
| 16 | The principal families of the Khanate were all interrelated , and so it was not hard to understand why the defective genes which had been responsible for Nogai 's early death recurred in so many of his blood . |
| 17 | But I was braced to cope with him because I had been ambitious for Jean-Claude , vauntingly so . |