Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [verb] be [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getty , 59 , had been Premier since 1985 and had been re-elected in 1989 . |
| 2 | Although he had had a distinguished military record as a young man , he was sixty-two and had been engaged in predominantly civil duties for the previous twenty years . |
| 3 | Deene was acquired by Sir Robert Brudenell in 1514 and has been lived in ever since by his descendants including the 7th Earl of Cardigan who led the Charge of the Light Brigade . |
| 4 | These are conveniently set out in Duncan & Neill on Defamation , 2nd ed. , p. 3 , para. 2.03 and have been summarised in the judgment of Balcombe L.J. ; I do not propose to repeat them . |
| 5 | Engraved with a crest and supported on a cylindrical stem , the eye-bath was made in London in 1818 and had been discovered in the collection of a West Yorkshire couple . |
| 6 | In chapter 13 the Group suggests that , for pupils taught mainly through the medium of Welsh , the programmes of study but not the attainment targets for English in key stage 2 will need modification , to accommodate the matters , skills and processes which have been included in the English programmes of study for key stage 1 but have been disapplied in respect of such pupils in key stage 1 . |
| 7 | He had n't achieved much since his Commonwealth Games gold medals in 1982 and had been eliminated in the semi-finals at the Los Angeles Olympics . |
| 8 | The economy was undergoing its worst recession since 1945 and had been hit in particular by a fall of over 50 per cent in trade with the Soviet Union in the first three months of 1991 , and by a low dollar and over-valued Finnish markka , which seriously affected the forest industry . |
| 9 | The controversial new tax had been approved by the House of Commons in early 1990 but had been blocked in the Senate where the opposition Liberal Party held a majority . |