Example sentences of "had been [adj] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Prior to World War I , where gas had been available for cooking , it was often used only for the Sunday dinner . ) |
| 2 | Had he not been she might have telephoned him instead of Nick , when she had been desperate for company . |
| 3 | In the old days before the local government reorganization of 1974 , it had been possible for Local Education Authorities to make their decisions relatively autonomously , with a view to the educational needs of local children , and under the guidance of often very high-powered and imaginative Chief Education Officers . |
| 4 | Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime of 1974 , was conditionally released from imprisonment in Cyprus on April 28 ; he had been due for release in March 1994 [ see also p. 38450 ] . |
| 5 | The corporation will pay the estimated £250,000 costs of the action , which had been due for trial in January . |
| 6 | Unkiar-Skelessi had been due for renewal anyway . |
| 7 | The new arrangements had been due for introduction on April 1 but the Government was forced to shelve them last month after dentists threatened a mass exodus from the NHS . |
| 8 | One patient died of disseminated colonic cancer after three years ( see Table I , patient E ) , the three previous complete annual colonoscopies had been negative for dysplasia . |
| 9 | Two patients who had been negative for dysplasia were found to have low grade dysplasia in their colectomy specimens . |
| 10 | At entry all patients had been seropositive for hepatitis B surface antigen ( HBsAg ) and HBeAg for at least six months . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | He had been concerned for Kafy ; more than he would have thought , for someone whose interest in him stretched no further than his wallet . |
| 13 | Also recommended was the withdrawal from the townships of the most controversial of the security forces , the former Namibian counterinsurgency unit Koevoet ( " Crowbar " ) and 32 battalion , members of which had been responsible for rape and other assaults during " peacekeeping " operations . |
| 14 | Whilst with Tangye Ltd. he had been responsible for machinery used by the Saltburn , North Yorkshire cliff railway . |
| 15 | For long before 1946 , it had been customary for Parliament to preserve an oversight of such central government delegated legislation by requiring that such legislation be laid before it in some form or another . |
| 16 | Davide sighed ; with Tommaso Talvi he had been hungry for experience , but now , he wondered what had impelled him then to want so much , everything , travel , influence , money , work , before he had ever touched a woman ; when now he sang arias of extreme emotion , when he grieved and sobbed his passion in La Forza and Boccanegra and La Traviata , he thought of young men in the future bursting their hearts for his daughters . |
| 17 | Five others who had been eligible for parole following the first trial were now imprisoned . |