Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All necessary information had been efficiently handed over to the new Teachers ' Representative , , who was then introduced and warmly welcomed by . |
| 32 | Mrs. Mott had been very put out by the long time the builders had stayed in the hall ; the chattering of the girls was the final straw . |
| 33 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 34 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 35 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 36 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 37 | Coffin wished he had observed Edward Pitt more closely on that evening , but he had been so taken up with Letty . |
| 38 | He stood with his hands in his pockets and she realised she had been so taken up with her seemingly childish pursuit that she had not even heard the car arrive . |
| 39 | Kate had been so taken up with her own affairs that she 'd rather forgotten Ace 's part in the drama . |
| 40 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 41 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |
| 42 | ‘ She had been totally geared up for a reconciliation , ’ says Columb Farrelly , then manager of Sinead 's band and the man who persuaded the troubled teenager to seek out her mother . |
| 43 | The local pottery had been totally flooded out with the stock ruined . |
| 44 | Disabled housewives in particular had been totally left out of previous schemes . |
| 45 | In both Scotland and Lancashire it was barely 3,000 , while the militant Kent coalfield had been totally wiped out with the successive closures of Snowdon , Tilmanston and Betteshanger pits . |
| 46 | In the early 1960s the American containment ring around the Soviet bloc had been seriously breached only by the Soviet acquisition of military facilities in Cuba . |
| 47 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 48 | The Antipodean visitor was VH–AQJ/A17–26 , which had been especially crated over to the UK for the event and was expected to spend about a month or so in the country before returning home . |
| 49 | This had been further enhanced recently by his appearance in television ads for the estate agency chain , which suggested his decision to give up an earlier acting career had been a smart move . |
| 50 | The yard at the side had been roughly roofed over with corrugated iron ; it was not entirely waterproof as buckets and other containers were dotted around the floor to catch the drips . |
| 51 | All the nationals except the Daily Star , which had been specifically based there by its owners to soak up the spare capacity left by their other declining title , the Daily Express , had either closed down , moved to London or drastically reduced their Manchester operations . |
| 52 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 53 | Hsu had twice previously attempted to return to Taiwan but had been quietly turned away by officials nervous of the publicity a trial would attract . |
| 54 | But he quashed rumours that the Red Fort had been quietly put up for sale due to his financial difficulties . |
| 55 | She had been quite taken in by Sandra 's invention . |
| 56 | The financial savings made possible by Sandys ’ Reformation had been gradually whittled away by escalating equipment costs , and by the need to provide the strategic mobility that his policies had assumed , but which had been inadequately provided for in his costings . |
| 57 | The tenants ' rent books had been correctly marked up by her , but she had put different figures into the ledger and cash book . |
| 58 | Bosnia and Herzegovina had both been administered by Austria-Hungary since 1878 but had been formally annexed only in 1908 . |
| 59 | The federation had been formally set up in Paris on Sept. 22 by leaders of the pro-democracy movement who had fled China , including leading economists Yan Jiaqi and Chen Yizi , and Wan Runnan , head of China 's biggest private company , the Stone Co. [ see also p. 36815 ] . |
| 60 | ‘ Had been suddenly called away to the funeral of a close relative ? |