Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] in [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A policy of nothing less than ‘ state terrorism ’ had been adopted in Central America , the Middle East , Afghanistan and southern Africa . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The UUUC had been formed in early December to bring together Westite Unionists , Vanguard Unionists and Democratic Unionists for electioneering and propaganda purposes . |
| 6 | The decision to resume lending had been announced in early October [ see p. 39144 ] . |
| 7 | I still number some of them as personal friends all these years later , but at the time what struck me was their unbelievable competence and sheer quality compared with the wretchedly small scope they had been given in prewar Britain . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | Ernst Verdieu , the Minister of Social Affairs , and Smark Michel , the Trade and Industry Minister were dismissed on June 14 and replaced respectively by Myrtho Céleston and Jean François Chamblain ; the Justice Minister , Bayard Vincent , had been dismissed in late May and replaced by Karl Auguste . |
| 10 | Government-to-government contacts had been restarted in early December with the convening in Beijing of consultations on cultural exchanges . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The so-called " Baker plan " had been accepted in early November by the Israeli Cabinet , on condition that the USA guaranteed the non-involvement of the PLO [ see p. 37051 ] . |
| 13 | Empirical Socialism may be supposed to have judged that that point had been reached in western Europe by the 1960s . |
| 14 | The Independent of Feb. 7 reported that more than 26,000 people had been arrested in Tamil Nadu during a Feb. 6 general strike in protest against president 's rule . |
| 15 | Although the disagreements had been resolved in early March , continuing dissatisfaction in some quarters of the FKgP had been highlighted by the passage on March 18 of a vote of no confidence in FKgP parliamentary group leader Jozsef Torgyan , because of a speech he had made at a rally on March 9 attacking the voucher scheme . |
| 16 | They broke into the vehicle , which had been parked in Front Street , Sowerby , and stole sunglasses , cassettes and a bag containing sports equipment . |
| 17 | An economic embargo had been established in late March , and in early May the government had attempted to increase the pressure by declaring a 50-mile " exclusion zone " around the island , from which all ships and aircraft would be prohibited . |
| 18 | , 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 . |
| 19 | The meeting had been jeopardized in early September by Prince Sihanouk 's refusal to travel to Jakarta . |
| 20 | Reports of fighting in the strategic southern town of Malakal , the capital of Upper Nile province , which had been reported in late October as clashes between the rebel Sudan People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) and government forces [ see p. 39132 ] , were confused by conflicting accounts during November . |
| 21 | His widow , Fatima Oufkir , 56 , his six children ( now aged between 21 and 37 ) and his cousin had been imprisoned in southern Morocco in December 1972 , and were moved to Marrakesh in 1987 . |
| 22 | While Edward had been preoccupied in northern France , the English position in Aquitaine had deteriorated . |