Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] be [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every nerve had been strained in the effort to prompt Lou 's memory but what she had learned could do little to prove Barney 's innocence . |
| 2 | Dalglish 's incredible decision to leave Liverpool provoked feelings of bitterness among some Merseyside supporters , angry at the way the club had been abandoned in the crucial run-in to the season . |
| 3 | If Maria Jakob 's car had been parked in the front she would not have stopped . |
| 4 | The photograph had been taken in the late twenties , seventeen or eighteen years before . |
| 5 | Again no parasites could be found in the blood , but they appeared later , even if a course of quinine had been given in the meantime . |
| 6 | When asked in 1983 to conduct a similar investigation of the purported Hitler diaries of 1932 and 1935 , Grant found that high grade waste paper containing an optical brightening agent had been used in the pulp and these were not in use at the alleged time . |
| 7 | Tea had been laid in the blue drawing room , a vast room dominated by two huge chandeliers and an enormous portrait of Henry VIII after Holbein , which hung over the fireplace . |
| 8 | No such brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration had been seen in the Soviet Union since at least the early 1960s , strengthening rumours that the action , directed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs rather than by Georgian officials , might have been covertly encouraged by Kremlin conservatives intent on discrediting Gorbachev and the policy of perestroika . |
| 9 | ‘ There were coal-effect gas fires in the living-rooms ; the bathroom was covered in cork tiles , floor to ceiling ; the kitchen had been knocked through into a disastrous tunnel lined with Melamine ; and the roof had been re-tiled in the most revolting red pantiles instead of black slates . |
| 10 | The monastery had been founded in the fourth century , not long after the death of St Paul the Egyptian who , like his contemporary Antony , had been a desert ascetic . |
| 11 | In the face of opposition calls for a boycott , and reports of widespread apathy among the electorate , the Interior Ministry announced on Sept. 5 that a 99.96 per cent " yes " vote had been achieved in the previous day 's referendum on proposed constitutional changes . |
| 12 | London was , of course , by far the larger city , but much of London 's majesty had been destroyed in the Blitz . |
| 13 | Menem , who later claimed that his action had been taken in the long-term interests of national unity and reconciliation , was immediately accused of double standards in releasing the former officers when he was simultaneously demanding the severest penalties for those involved in the latest rebellion . |
| 14 | This instrument had been introduced in the West in the eleventh century from the world of Islam , which in those days enjoyed a higher degree of civilization and of scientific and technological expertise than the West . |
| 15 | It was denied that force had been used in the initial operation . |
| 16 | The key had been left in the ignition . |
| 17 | The furniture and files and all our other pieces of office equipment had been unpacked in the new building . |
| 18 | The reorganization of the former Interior Ministry into the new Public Order Ministry and a National Security Committee had been decided in the light of preliminary findings by a parliamentary commission . |
| 19 | He said sand had been put in the pockets of Mr Topp 's jacket . |
| 20 | Work had been done in the Treasury before the war on the introduction of a counter-cyclical element into public spending to help stabilise employment . |
| 21 | The original Act had been amended in the years before 1979 by such Acts as the Misrepresentation Act 1967 , the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 , the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 22 | The 1975 Act had been accepted in the Court of Appeal as having been passed mainly to give effect to the Hague Convention , but that purpose nowhere appears in the text of the Act which was also designed to replace earlier United Kingdom legislation , notably the Foreign Tribunals Evidence Act 1856 in which the phrase ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ was used in a context wholly divorced from any international convention and which formed part of the law of many Commonwealth ( and common law ) countries . |
| 23 | But a Conservative peer , Lord McColl of Dulwich , vice-president of the College of Health , said the original NHS Act had been passed in the teeth of BMA opposition . |
| 24 | Counsel then appearing for the petitioner does not seem to have appreciated that the cancellation issue had been heard in the course of the trial of the preliminary issue and finally decided by the Court of Appeal on 4 October 1991 . |
| 25 | As a sop to angry opposition MPs and international agencies , the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , told the Commons that no more Vietnamese would follow the 51 deported during Monday night until the issue had been debated in the House on Tuesday . |
| 26 | Sabine saw that the arched motif had been repeated in the french windows all the way along the front of the house and the stout wooden entrance . |
| 27 | A punishment stake had been embedded in the turf opposite the west door of the church . |
| 28 | Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers . |
| 29 | The Hearthware was dressed in a plain hide jerkin ; most of their armour had been lost in the flight north and was at the bottom of the river by now . |
| 30 | Two days later I met the same lady and her sari had been stolen in the middle of the night . |