Example sentences of "had been [verb] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally used as a storeroom-cum-gallery , it had been cleared of extraneous clutter . |
| 2 | At the time of my visit about half the men had been convicted of heterosexual offences , mostly rape ; about a quarter for offences against children and about a quarter were the ‘ grasses ’ or informers . |
| 3 | People who had been convicted of criminal offences , including drunkenness , or people who had habitually failed to work , were not to be supported from state resources . |
| 4 | Nofziger , who had headed the White House Office of Political Affairs in 1981-82 , had been convicted of illegal lobbying for the Wedtech Corp. within a year of leaving office , fined $30,000 and sentenced to 90 days in prison [ see p. 36018 ] . |
| 5 | At last year 's Chelsea Flower Show , an RHS gold medal was awarded to a display including wild plants whose exhibitor had been convicted of illegal import of wild orchids . |
| 6 | The Swedish government sought the extradition of the applicant to face trial for drug trafficking offences in respect of which P. , an alleged accomplice who had been convicted of similar offences , had made a statement to the Swedish court implicating the applicant . |
| 7 | Tass said Gazprom 's foreign customers had been warned of possible supply disruptions after Thursday . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal and granting the applications , that since on an application for the grant of leave under section 8 no question with regard to a child 's upbringing was determined , and since section 10(9) stipulated particular matters , including parental wishes , to which the court was to have regard on such an application , section 1(1) did not apply so as to make the children 's welfare the paramount consideration on an application for leave to apply for a residence order made by a person other than the child concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had applied the wrong test ; that as a result of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the application the judge had been deprived of additional material necessary to the proper exercise of his discretion ; and that in the exercise of a fresh discretion , having regard to the new evidence and to the circumstances of the case , the foster mother 's application for leave would be refused ( post , pp. 428G — 429F , 430F , 431C–E ) . |
| 9 | But the Treasury issued a counter-statement saying that nothing improper had been asked of civil servants by ministers . |
| 10 | Rostov was not sure what purpose his stateroom had served previously but it was obvious that it had been occupied by at least four persons , all of whom had been possessed of diverse tastes with regard to the minimal decoration which was permissible aboard a ship designed for deep space exploration . |
| 11 | Aldana , once one of Castro 's closest aides , had been stripped of overall responsibility for ideology , foreign policy and culture in September for his alleged involvement in a financial scandal [ see p. 39089 ] . |
| 12 | At Wharram Percy they had been rebuilt of perishable materials — wood , wattle , turf — in almost every generation , only later having substantial foundations . |
| 13 | The agencies funding the scheme — the UN 's Association International Service ( London ) and ASEC , an inter-church organisation pursuing social work — had been accused of political activity , Ede explained , but that was unavoidable : the problems were political . |
| 14 | On Sept. 9 the dismissal had been reported of Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt.-Col. Mahamat Garfa , following allegations by the Chadian League for Human Rights ( LDHT ) that soldiers had massacred 150 people at Doba in the south . |