Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body . |
| 2 | Arabella Buckley hissed out the words , but Sven Hjerson thought it very likely they had been carried by the sticky breeze as far as the couple in the prow . |
| 3 | Not even squatters camped in this place , so more likely they 'd been broken by locals scavenging for carpets or pipes . |
| 4 | Some refugee children underwent , for the second time , a fall in living standards from those they had been used to in Europe , which added to the depression they were already feeling as the threat of invasion increased . |
| 5 | On June 25 they had been prevented from visiting a site at Abu Gharaib , near Baghdad , and on June 27 the UN Security Council ordered Iraq to disclose the whereabouts of nuclear bomb-making equipment after viewing US reconnaissance photographs which suggested that nuclear-related material had been removed from the research site of Tuwaitha to Abu Gharaib . |
| 6 | Among Sikhs , for example , many of the first male immigrants arrived in the 1950s , by the 60s they had been joined by their wives and children and by the 70s many of them had brought their elderly parents . |
| 7 | He made his recordings in 1904 and died a year later ; by 1925 they had been moved to the ‘ Historic Catalogue ’ . |