Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 2 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 3 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 4 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 5 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 6 | A solution has now been offered and , if we accept it , we were right : the ladies had truthfully reported what they had seen , but in fact it was a sort of fancy-dress fête champêtre organized by Robert de Montesquiou : as no official permission had been granted for this , the authorities denied all knowledge of it . |
| 7 | The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives . |
| 8 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 9 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 10 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 11 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |
| 12 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 13 | Relations with China , which had been strained for many years since the 1962 war between the two countries , gradually improved after Rajiv Gandhi 's visit to Beijing on Dec. 19-23 , 1988 , the first to China by an Indian Prime Minister for 34 years . |
| 14 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 15 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |
| 16 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 17 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 18 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 19 | Mr Reynolds had an intravenous infusion and a central venous line ( see p.1 ) and fluids had been prescribed for both . |
| 20 | One EC official said yesterday that the problem of fraud involving the Vatican had been understood for several years , and that attempts were being made to stamp it out . |
| 21 | Some of the consequences were outlined in a study released on the eve of the conference by Arthur Andersen Petroleum Services which claimed that 20 per cent of future UK projects had been delayed for more than a year by the cash flow situation and other uncertainties . |
| 22 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 23 | The plenum had been delayed for several months , allegedly because of divisions over economic policy between the central and provincial authorities . |
| 24 | This placed an unfortunate obstacle in the path of the police who might otherwise , simply on the grounds of suspicion , make a ‘ clean sweep ’ of all known criminals — a policy that had been advocated for some years by Matthew Davenport Hill , the Recorder of Birmingham — as a sure means to guarantee the safety of the streets . |
| 25 | On Sept. 17 it was announced that the defence and economic co-operation accord between the USA and Turkey had been extended for another year . |
| 26 | Sometimes this research was located in areas where the effects of human activity had been sustained for many centuries . |
| 27 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 28 | As is traditional , the trophies which were won throughout the year had been saved for this occasion and presented to their recipients after dinner . |
| 29 | He said that all Waddell 's confessions had been made ‘ for drink or money ’ but did n't add that the clandestine confession given to the two BBC reporters had been made for neither . |
| 30 | Moreover , provision had been made for any firm that might become financially insolvent ; in this way , systemic risk was largely averted . |