Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the long-awaited Invasion finally started , we were sure that the lives which had been lost were now going to be partly justified , because the boot was definitely on the other foot and the Germans had had it . |
| 2 | What restrictions had been imposed were largely removed in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Moreover , it was possible to reconstruct a universe in which Christian doctrines remained intact , even if the imagery through which they had been expressed was gradually discarded . |
| 4 | Initial claims by refugees fleeing the area that 1,000 people had been massacred were later denied by the local authorities , who said that 49 people had died . |
| 5 | The operation proceeded methodically once the bushes had been cleared , though the spots where the mysterious fragments had been found were carefully tagged and covered with plastic . |
| 6 | And after a week , when the football ground had acted as a family home visited by friends from near and afar in what was a traditional wake , the flowers which had been laid were ritually burned . |