Example sentences of "had been [adv] [vb pp] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first policeman on the scene of the crash says both children had been properly strapped into the safety seats before the accident : |
| 2 | Having already subjected the Hyundai group to rigorous financial and tax scrutiny earlier in the year , on Dec. 4 police raided the group 's offices and seized documents which allegedly proved that company funds had been illegally channelled into the UPP 's election campaign and that Hyundai employees had been mobilized to support Chung 's candidacy . |
| 3 | The computer could reveal this information , Ii it had been previously fed into the data store . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , whatever behavioural sequelae existed had been subtly woven into the personality of the patient . |
| 5 | By the time ZTT was formed the new pop sensibility had been subtly transformed into a commercial sensibility — the way to make sense of the pop process was in terms of market competition and success . |
| 6 | Just before his vision or visions , Constantine had been newly initiated into a Sol Invictus cult , which makes his experience perfectly plausible . |
| 7 | The village shop was a white weatherboarded building which had been badly converted into a supermarket . |
| 8 | When she had first known him , the glossy curls had been ruthlessly cut into a very short , severe style that would have suited very few men , but looked exactly right with his strong features . |
| 9 | By the late 1960s , the new social patterns , technologies and musical styles had been substantially assimilated into a reorganized music-industrial system : a transnational oligopoly of vast entertainment corporations , supplied to some extent by ‘ independent ’ producers ; serviced by mass audience radio and TV channels ( with some ‘ minority ’ shows and channels ) , by a symbiotically pliant music press and by related leisure-products businesses ; and directing itself at a series of separate audiences whose distinctness is less subcultural than a creature of market researchers ' consumer profiles . |
| 10 | Twenty years earlier , the word ‘ picturesque ’ had been formally introduced into the vocabulary of society by one of the movement 's staunchest supporters , William Gilpin . |
| 11 | She found , however , that once she had been formally initiated into the movement , she was expected to spend all her time with other female devotees and could no longer speak to , let alone question , the leaders ( who were all male ) . |
| 12 | When Peter died his country had been irrevocably launched into the mainstream of international relations in Europe . |