Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Trevor Jones , prosecuting , at Chester Crown Court , said Lound had been evicted from Valiant Close , Warrington because of rent arrears . |
| 2 | I was in Italy and read in the paper that Paul Van Kempen had been appointed as General Music Director in Aachen . |
| 3 | Private George Trumper had been killed on 2 November 1917 at Passchendaele , the letter had informed him : bravely , while charging the enemy lines at Polygon Wood . |
| 4 | The trial of Winnie Mandela had been marked by intense media and public interest , and was widely seen as having brought about the collapse of her personal popularity among ANC followers . |
| 5 | If the Diamond Phoenix had been supplied with proper drivers it most probably would have done a little better , overtaking the Western Systems . |
| 6 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 7 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 8 | The apothecary had lied and Lady Eleanor had been murdered by other means . |
| 9 | Manning said he was told Mr McVeigh had been warned on four occasions not to supply goods to the security forces . |
| 10 | Tonight the Ministry of Defence confirmed Anne Scott had been charged with criminal damage . |
| 11 | Throughout his trials with the Sex Pistols , Richard Branson had been engaged in another , even more delicate negotiation , one which promised , at last , to provide the antidote to the enduring unhappiness over his broken marriage . |
| 12 | Rangers piled on the pressure in the last 15 minutes and an instinctive Mathers save kept out Mark Hateley but the big Rangers frontman had the final say after Dundee had been reduced to ten men . |
| 13 | While Edward had been preoccupied in northern France , the English position in Aquitaine had deteriorated . |
| 14 | IF DAVID HOCKNEY had been born in 1837 instead of 1937 , he would have become an Olympian rather than a Californian . |
| 15 | As deputy chief of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies , whose activities were viewed by the central government as a threat to the integrity of the Malaysian Federation , Ongkili had been held for 59 days under the Internal Security Act on suspicion of carrying out actions prejudicial to national security . |
| 16 | I was in the Feathers the night Sandy MacAllister punched Laurence Uden on the nose for saying that Stanford Roberts had been drunk at poor old Sidney Cunningham 's funeral . ’ |
| 17 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 18 | If only Teddy or Richard had been spared from that terrible war , she would n't be cast out like this . |
| 19 | ‘ No , of course there has n't , I 'd have known if Dana had been hurt in any way . |
| 20 | They had no reason to lack confidence in their own assessment — Holland was the home of Fokker and KLM had been established since 1919 , each company producing generations of highly competent aeronautical engineers . |
| 21 | According to Jordanian officials Hafez had been recruited in early 1990 during a training course in Germany when he was approached by a female agent for Mossad ( the Israeli intelligence service ) posing as a US civilian . |
| 22 | Imports of vegetables from the former COMECON ( Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ) countries had fallen , and fruit imports from Cuba had been reduced by 75 per cent . |
| 23 | Members : 35 countries from northern , central and southern America and the Caribbean ; Canada formally joined the organization in January 1990 ; Belize and Guyana were admitted in January 1991 ; Cuba had been suspended in 1962 . |
| 24 | The German defences north of South Vaagsö had been bombed by three Blenheims an hour or so earlier , no doubt adding to the confusion at the German 181 Division 's headquarters for they had no clear picture of events and a patrol sent down from the northern defences lost two men at the road-block . |
| 25 | This second tranche of the SAF had been withheld for six months until Sri Lanka had agreed to the implementation of a policy framework paper outlining the conditions for the government 's stabilization programme . |
| 26 | COMECON had been created in 1949 at Stalin 's instigation in an effort to co-ordinate the development of East European economies in the post-war period , without having resource to the Marshall Aid Plan being promoted by the United States . |
| 27 | The newest building in the centre of Qara Tappah had been built in 1934 . |
| 28 | Dorje had been sentenced to three years of hard labour , but according to the Chinese Government , he ‘ showed signs of reform ’ and ‘ was granted early release ’ . |
| 29 | After the July 1990 elections the state structure was changed to re-establish a standing parliament ( the Little Hural had been abolished in 1950 ) . |
| 30 | Korea had been divided into two zones in 1945 , Communist to the north of the 38th parallel and non-Communist to the south . |