Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line-up for the Pipeline Masters had been posted . |
| 2 | On the contrary , the high levels of crime recorded during the war years had been maintained , and in several categories increased . |
| 3 | His promotion through the army ranks had been rapid and by 350 he commanded a select corps of Ioviani and Herculiani , the new type of legion earlier created by Diocletian . |
| 4 | After the morning foursomes had been shared , Yorkshire took a firm grip on the proceedings when they won five out of the first six afternoon singles but then the young players took a hand . |
| 5 | Over the first two days most of the home points had been garnered by the Big Four comprising Seve Ballesteros , Jose Maria Olazabal , Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam but in the end it was the third Spaniard and the middle-aged Irishman who rose to the occasion when their contribution was needed most . |
| 6 | Some of the branch lines had been closed down in the Beeching fifties . |
| 7 | The very existence of the interment camps had been a state secret and virtually all the materials on display would have been ‘ classified ’ before the recent revolution . |
| 8 | It took me a lot more years , and even more boyfriends , to cotton on , by which time most of the occupants of the back rows had been married to each other for years and were on their second spin dryer . |
| 9 | Previously , the remains of some 4,000 of the massacre victims had been unearthed , at Katyn forest near Smolensk in 1943 [ for April 1990 Soviet admission of massacre see pp. 37383-84 ] . |
| 10 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 11 | Even in the NUAW 's strongest area less than one-quarter of the strike notices had been obeyed and the union had been reduced to penury . |
| 12 | Sixty six of the vaccine packages had been exposed to temperatures >10°C . |
| 13 | For many years the Accounting Standards Committee ( the ASC ) of the accountancy bodies had been producing valuable Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ) and had done its best to ensure that they were observed — not always successfully since the Statements had no statutory recognition . |
| 14 | Before the Great War , however , Baden-Powell 's public attitude towards the military significance of the Boy Scouts had been hedged about with all sorts of reservations , and he had always actively disfavoured drill which he thought produced merely mechanical obedience . |
| 15 | Two more of the nave lights had been switched on but the church was still dim compared with the harsh glare of the arc lights trained on the scene and it took him a minute to locate Father Barnes , a dark shape at the end of the first row of chairs under the pulpit . |
| 16 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 17 | Although this particular patrol was not successful in terms of concrete results , it was quite significant in that it was the start of an increasing interest in Scottish Waters by Cutter Management , up until then most of the Cutter patrols had been concentrated in the south . |
| 18 | Striking though the tunnels and cuttings and aqueducts of the canal engineers had been , they were soon surpassed in size and grandeur by those of the railways . |
| 19 | In both studies the authors emphasised that most of the pyloric stenoses could have been diagnosed clinically and that many of the imaging studies performed were not only unnecessary but also not cost effective . |
| 20 | Since the beginning of the war demands had been made for the internment of naturalized aliens , and a spy mania developed . |
| 21 | Some of the advice workers surveyed were concerned that they should work as a team . |
| 22 | Most of the electrocardiogram abnormalities recorded were supraventricular and ventricular extrasystoles ( Table II ) . |
| 23 | Between Jan. 29 and Feb. 3 Israeli and SLA artillery hit in retaliation the Rashidiya camp and a number of Palestinian targets in Iqlim al-Tuffah ( the region to the south-east of Sidon from which many of the rocket attacks had been launched ) . |
| 24 | The depute-fiscal , Ron Phillips , said three of the estate workers had been at risk as they demolished a grain store , working on unsecured planks stretched across the top of 20ft deep bins . |
| 25 | No thorough reconnaissance of the landing sites had been possible and maps had largely been taken from tourist guide books . |
| 26 | The start was delayed by over half an hour because one of the health visitors had been busy through the day , and things went downhill from there . |
| 27 | Most of the coconut palms had been cleared from the twenty-acre site , and the dense vegetation had been cut back to deepen the crescent-shaped beach where the six low-level Mediterranean accommodation blocks were to be built , each housing twenty rooms , varying in size and design but all with huge covered terraces overhanging the beach with uninterrupted sea views . |
| 28 | ‘ Moreover in the rush to reduce their census the hospitals discharged patients long before most of the community centres had been established and before supporting programmes had been developed ’ . |
| 29 | The strike came less than a week after Serbia 's repression of the Kosovar Albanians had been condemned by the minority leader in the United States Senate , Robert Dole , following his visit to Pristina at the head of a delegation of US Republican congressmen . |
| 30 | Hundreds of the hostel residents had been questioned , the Commissioner said ; six had been arrested , and he expected further arrests following the result of forensic tests of bloodstained weapons found at the hostel . |