Example sentences of "had been [verb] in early [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The issue of the lack of variety in the Art curriculum , which had been raised in earlier meetings was raised again .
2 The elections had been called in early October [ see p. 37724 ] after President Wojciech Jaruzelski , the last remaining communist head of state in eastern Europe except for that of Albania , had agreed to resign just over a year into his six-year term and to transfer power to a freely elected head of state .
3 The UUUC had been formed in early December to bring together Westite Unionists , Vanguard Unionists and Democratic Unionists for electioneering and propaganda purposes .
4 The decision to resume lending had been announced in early October [ see p. 39144 ] .
5 The study confirmed findings which had been highlighted in earlier research , for example that schools tend to be more successful if leadership is purposeful and teachers cooperate in the implementation of an agreed policy .
6 This policy posed a general problem for the National WEA , which lacked a clear view on its partnership with other providers , and was an especially acute one for the District where important concessions had been made in earlier years to the Cambridge Board .
7 Government-to-government contacts had been restarted in early December with the convening in Beijing of consultations on cultural exchanges .
8 The so-called " Baker plan " had been accepted in early November by the Israeli Cabinet , on condition that the USA guaranteed the non-involvement of the PLO [ see p. 37051 ] .
9 Although the disagreements had been resolved in early March , continuing dissatisfaction in some quarters of the FKgP had been highlighted by the passage on March 18 of a vote of no confidence in FKgP parliamentary group leader Jozsef Torgyan , because of a speech he had made at a rally on March 9 attacking the voucher scheme .
10 By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states .
11 The meeting had been jeopardized in early September by Prince Sihanouk 's refusal to travel to Jakarta .
12 For the first time the survey , which covered 1,160,000 sq km ( i.e. two-thirds of the entire forest area in Europe ) included data on forest damage in the western part of the Soviet Union ( i.e. Byelorussia , the Kaliningrad region and Ukraine ) in addition to Estonia and Lithuania which had been included in earlier years .
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