Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [be] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instrument zu singen gesetzt ( Königsberg , 1638–50 ) which enjoyed enormous popularity ; by 1652 the first five Teile had reached their third or fourth editions and a number of separate songs had been republished in other people 's miscellanies . |
| 2 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 3 | He claimed that AFPFL demands had been conceded in full . |
| 4 | It became clear last night that the separation agreement was only reached after her demands had been met in full . |
| 5 | They were standing expectantly by the main gate of Wandsworth prison , a building which gave the impression of an Italian Renaissance fortress whose square towers and long cell blocks had been reconstructed in grimy industrial brick . |
| 6 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 7 | In a report in October 1989 Amnesty International noted that in 1988 at least 50 peasants , trade unionists , Indians and church workers had been murdered in rural areas , usually at the instigation of landowners or land speculators and with the apparent collusion of the police . |
| 8 | Relatively little of the peat fens had been reclaimed in medieval times . |
| 9 | As many as 5,000 Palestinians had been held in Syrian prisons since 1983 , when relations between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad had deteriorated into open hostility [ see pp. 32457-59 ; 32649-51 ] . |
| 10 | Over many years considerable advances had been made in urban environmental quality through better housing , lessening of overcrowding and provision of open space : but national medical standards had not risen accordingly . |
| 11 | Grb2 binding of Sos1 in vitro facilitated the rapid mapping of the sites of interaction : the SH3 domains were clear candidates for interaction on the Grb2 protein because mutation in these domains had been detected in genetic screens in worms , and indeed both SH3 domains of Grb2 are required for high-affinity binding . |
| 12 | ( Until this point , films had been shot in continuous takes by cameras which were fixed in position and set well back f r()m the action . ) |
| 13 | Russian losses were massive — General Falkenhayn estimated human loss at about ‘ three-quarters of a million men in prisoners alone ’ — and artillery and weaponry of all kinds had been taken in great quantity . |
| 14 | Officials claimed that large numbers of weapons had been found in various towns . |
| 15 | The movies had been born in big cities and had depended initially on the attraction that they held for working people who found themselves crowded either as permanent residents or transients in those cities . |
| 16 | Experiments with such regulations had been tried in other towns and cities during the 1980s , but had met little success . |
| 17 | Previously estimates and surveys had been conducted in constant prices , rather loosely described as ‘ volume ’ . |
| 18 | Depos had been formed in late May by two opposition parliamentary parties — the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) and the Democratic Party ( DS ) — and the Serbian Liberal Party and the New Democracy-Movement for Serbia . |
| 19 | One of the advertisements had been ringed in green ink . |
| 20 | On Jan. 30 the Agence France-Presse news agency reported that some 20 Moslem clerics had been arrested in recent weeks and that a 40-year-old preacher had been sacked and condemned to 80 lashes in December after he had used his Friday sermon to insult the leaders of a Saudi women 's association . |
| 21 | The committee noted that although significant sums had been invested in rural hospitals , those still relied heavily on local GPs and larger district general hospitals . |
| 22 | Neoexpression of ABH and Lewis blood group antigens had been shown in human hepatocellular carcinomas . |
| 23 | The Economist of Oct. 6 reported that demonstrations had been organized in southern Bhutan between Sept. 19 and 23 by the outlawed Bhutan People 's Party ( BPP ) , most of whose supporters were members of the ethnic Nepalese community . |
| 24 | It was also implied that these illegal forces had been deployed in western Kenya where they were being used to foment ethnic violence [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 25 | The " Open Skies " policy had been proposed by the United States in December 1989 [ see pp. 37112 ] , and test flights had been made in eastern Europe [ see p. 37201 ] , but talks on its implementation had effectively been suspended in May 1990 after Soviet expressions of reservations over militarily sensitive areas [ see pp. 37267 ; 38255 ] and they had been reconvened only on Sept. 9 , 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] . |
| 26 | Immediately on his election , Miyazawa announced a new LDP Cabinet which contained only one member of the outgoing Kaifu administration ; critics noted , however , that three of its senior members had been implicated in financial scandals in the recent past . |
| 27 | Andronikos had been digging in northern Greece for some 25 years when he discovered a vault in one of the narrow streets in the village of Virghina , west of Salonika . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | By 1800 , societies had been founded in provincial capitals all over Spain and the whole movement was centralized in the Madrid Society , ‘ receiving its impulses from the provinces and reflecting those influences thither strengthened ’ . |
| 30 | , Sir John ( ante 1486–1559 ) , soldier and MP , was the eldest son of John Markham of Cotham , Nottinghamshire , whose ancestors had been established in Great Markham since the twelfth century , and his wife Alice , daughter of Sir William Skipwith . |