Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [been] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection . |
| 2 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 3 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 4 | Only the owner was excluded from the common knowledge at Kempton that day : that her horse had been wrestled into second place by an apprentice who could n't anticipate the obvious . |
| 5 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 6 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
| 7 | The completion of the West European scheme for economic recovery and the formation by the East Europeans of the Cominform in September 1947 , meant that the Continent had been severed in two . |
| 8 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 9 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 10 | An earlier breakthrough by an enemy motor rifle division supported by tanks and artillery had been halted by 6th Armoured Brigade , of which the Royal Scots form a part . |
| 11 | In their study of 115 rape victims , Burgess and Holmstrom found that vaginal penetration by the penis had been accompanied by forced fellatio in 22 per cent . |
| 12 | Long ago the Vexin had been divided into two along the line of the River Epte : on the east bank the French Vexin held by the King of France , on the west the Norman Vexin held by the Duke of Normandy . |
| 13 | Prior to the civil war of 1990 , an opposition coalition had been formed in 1986 by the Liberian Action Party ( LAP , Jackson F. Doe l. ) ; the Liberian Unification Party ( LUP , William Gabriel Kpolleh l. ) ; and the Unity Party ( UP , Edward Kesselly l . ) . |
| 14 | The three parties had disagreed on major issues and the coalition had been undermined by national discontent over recent austerity measures . |
| 15 | That increase resulted in the rest of the world overtaking the European Community , whose investment had been falling since 1987 , reaching an all-time low in 1991 , with a share of just over 3 per cent . |
| 16 | It claimed that very few of those who had died in the violence had been killed by traditional weapons , that 75 per cent of deaths were caused by bullets and 20 per cent by hacking with weapons which could not be described as traditional . |
| 17 | We found that since GCE had been published in 1972 , ideas on grammar , and knowledge of English grammar , had changed considerably . |
| 18 | Within the ancient royal estates ( and later hundreds ) of Cannington and North Petherton , a large holding had been assembled by 1066 belonging to the Saxon Alfwy . |
| 19 | If there was some other difficulty in obtaining all the required signatories to the election within the time limit and the Revenue had been notified of this and that each of the signatories had decided to make an election within the time limit , a late election will be accepted . |
| 20 | The three individuals were all ‘ phoned by a sultry female voice informing them that their bid had been matched by another . |
| 21 | The New English Art Club had been founded in 1886 somewhat in defiance of the Royal Academy , and the Fitzroy Street Group was a dissatisfied breakaway from it . |
| 22 | If anyone in the club had been left with any doubt that you and I are in love , that touching little display on the dance floor must have convinced them otherwise . ’ |
| 23 | Unlike its neighbours which were built of local stone , the vicarage had been encased in grey stucco early in its life . |
| 24 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 25 | This wave of opposition had been echoed in Muslim and Third World countries . |
| 26 | If the human mind had been created in such a way that it was matched to the intelligibility of nature , then the possibility of secure scientific knowledge could be affirmed . |
| 27 | All the same , Cissie was right in one assumption : Beth 's peace of mind had been shattered on that particular day . |
| 28 | Not that the air was very bad anywhere now since most of the roof had been removed by round shot and considerable holes had been made in the walls . |
| 29 | All the lead from the roof had been stolen by official vandals , and bushes were growing through the floor of the entrance hall . |
| 30 | The drawing had been published in 1935 in connection with the painting , yet both consignor and Sotheby 's had been ignorant of this . |