Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Convergence associated with the continuing subduction of the remaining oceanic lithosphere along the plate margin would be maintained until the plate boundary had been fixed at a sufficient number of points to resist further subduction . |
| 2 | By that time six water-powered mills had been erected along a two-mile stretch of the River Don . |
| 3 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 4 | The house itself , she found , had been erected in a shallow depression in the mound surmounting the central part of the island . |
| 5 | He quoted " dramatic data " which had been presented to a recent meeting of a committee charged with deciding the future of the shell . |
| 6 | Christian churches throughout Jerusalem , Israel proper and the occupied territories took the unprecedented step of closing in protest for the whole day of April 27 , and the controversy encouraged an improvement in relations between the normally conservative Greek Orthodox community and Palestinian Christians ; the Middle East International of April 27 reported that , soon after the Jews took over the hospice , a Palestinian flag had been raised on a nearby Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 7 | Government concern over the country 's economic performance had been increased by a current-account deficit of $646,000,000 in the first two months of 1990 , compared with a surplus of $888,000,000 in the same period a year earlier . |
| 8 | I do not suppose that in every case it would be worth the trouble that would be caused to the taxing authorities if they were to inquire into every deposit account and find if the interest had been increased , unless it had been increased by a large amount . |
| 9 | Lord Widgery ( who had succeeded Lord Parker as Lord Chief Justice ) had been appointed as a one-man tribunal of enquiry to enquire into the events of ‘ Bloody Sunday ’ which led to thirteen civilian deaths in Londonderry . |
| 10 | I believe the technological revolution would have been better served if Blackett had been appointed to a real job , rather than to an advisory one to Frank Cousins , who became Minister of Technology . |
| 11 | The little pigs who had been sheltered in a large box during the operation were back with their mother , side by side in a long pink row as their tiny mouths enclosed the teats . |
| 12 | She had been adopted as a small child by the counsellor 's wife , now dead — so said my companion , adding that it was well known that she would marry Victor , and so come into a deal of money . |
| 13 | Nonetheless the rebels immediately announced their rejection of the new Constitution on the grounds that it had been adopted by a National Assembly which the MNR considered invalid . |
| 14 | In addition aid money from the food programme , which by 1989 was worth $1,300 million per year to Iraq in loan guarantees , was channelled through the Atlanta branch of the Italian-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro , officials of which had been indicted for a separate multi-million dollar fraud involving arms for Iraq in 1989 [ see pp. 37425-26 ] . |
| 15 | The driver , Patsy Gillespie , who was also killed , was described by the IRA as a " collaborator " for having carried out construction work for the security forces , and had been coerced into a similar operation previously at the Fort George Army base in the city . |
| 16 | Defries hardly noticed the lakes and the vegetation : she was studying the strange complex of structures that had been built on a vast slab of rock in the centre of the fertile valley . |
| 17 | The houses had been built on a concrete raft on an infilled site . |
| 18 | The older houses had been built of a homely and native brown stock brick , and the farm buildings largely of wood . |
| 19 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 20 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 21 | The attack came less than three months after Sunday Life reported that a police file containing his address had been lost in a nationalist part of north Belfast . |
| 22 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 23 | The will that gave them title had been written on a torn-out page of a 1938 diary , the only paper available when the family learnt of their imminent fate in the gas chamber . |
| 24 | It had been written by a Syrian monk around 500 ad with the idea that contemplative monks were most like the highest orders of angels , closest to the Godhead in heaven . |
| 25 | The covers were very worn , as if it had been travelled about a good deal , and on the fly leaf was written ‘ Journal 1841 ’ and then , in a different coloured ink , ‘ And 1842 ’ and then , below that , carefully , ‘ Emily Brent ’ . |
| 26 | It had been planned as a separate men 's and women 's race , with the latter being sent off 20 minutes earlier , but only Dorre managed to stick to the plan , winning in 2hr 29min 38sec . |
| 27 | The red silk dress had been exchanged for a slender column of midnight-blue sequins that caught the light and spun it back in dizzying rainbows of colour . |
| 28 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 29 | In 1947 again the winter closed in after Christmas , as often happens in the Dales , only this time haytime had been ruined by a terrible summer and , in spite of the RAF airlift of fodder , many thousands of animals died of starvation . |
| 30 | Finally the coffee was steaming in its pot , as hot as good coffee should be ; the cream had been fetched from its place on the cold stone slab in the pantry and poured into its jug , sugar cubes had been decanted into a tiny flowered porcelain bowl which matched the pot and the jug , together with a matching cup and saucer . |