Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in mid-1942 , at Bir-Hakeim in the Libyan desert , Free French forces had scored their first significant victory against German forces , and this had been followed by other successful actions in North Africa . |
| 2 | This had been achieved following lengthy negotiations with the Post Office and would cause minimal disruption and considerable savings over the current system . |
| 3 | A considerable proportion of this first generation of Peter 's representatives in western Europe were foreigners in Russian service ; but by the 1720s these had been replaced by native-born Russians . |
| 4 | These had been used to good effect by the PRD in the presidential elections of July 1988 , when the PRD candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano had accused the PRI of indulging in blatant electoral fraud to deny him victory [ see pp. 36367-69 ] . |
| 5 | It emerged that these had been supplied from British army depots on indents supposedly from the police . |
| 6 | All had been sentenced to long prison sentences for the " dirty war " against left-wing guerrillas and dissidents , during which an estimated 9,000 people " disappeared " and thousands more were abducted , tortured and murdered . |
| 7 | Ammunition , provender , railway lines — all had been provided with Teutonic thoroughness . |
| 8 | Of the 766 hereditary peers listed in Dod 's Parliamentary Companion in 1987 , almost all had been educated at public school , no less than 371 of them — almost half — at Eton . |
| 9 | This did not mean their parents had happily shelled out the £2,000 for the trip — many had been sponsored by local firms and one girl had taken out a bank loan . |
| 10 | But when the first baiter led his teams on to an unploughed field he did not have to trouble his head about the width of the stetches : that had been fixed by long usage and probably appeared to him then as unalterable an aspect of the landscape as the roads and the hedges . |
| 11 | By October most had been transferred to ordinary prisons but had not been tried . |
| 12 | Both had been returned by huge majorities , having long been out of office . |