Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced out at a gang of starlings fighting over some breadcrumbs that had been tossed on the lawn . |
| 2 | She had been struck on the back of the head and strangled , said Mr Wakerley . |
| 3 | The London County Council was given an administrative home when their County Hall , Which had been erected on the south bank of the River Thames , at the foot of Westminster Bridge , was officially opened by King George V , in July 1922 . |
| 4 | Similar divisions existed at Bruen Stapleford in Cheshire , where on one occasion the local Puritan landowner , John Bruen , instructed his servants to pull down a maypole which had been erected on the village green . |
| 5 | A red and white striped tent had been erected on the pavement and two young men in blue overalls were lounging against a nearby wall , mugs in hand . |
| 6 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 7 | She found herself unable to speak with the fear that clutched at her , the worrying possibility that her whole life had been built on a lie . |
| 8 | It seems evident that the structure had been built on a shelf cut into the steep hill slope and a terrace added on the north side . |
| 9 | It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses . |
| 10 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
| 11 | Immediately these men destroyed the houses that had been built on the land . |
| 12 | Evidently a medieval castle had been built on the site of an Iron Age fort . |
| 13 | Mahoney had told her that the lodge had been built on the site of a demolished cromlech , a tower erected for the worship of native Irish Gods . |
| 14 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 15 | It was the discovery that little had been written on the background of Scottish women MPs which prompted the research work that Dr Burness is following during her fellowship . |
| 16 | Inevitably the services which had been planned on the basis of high seat-load factors quickly became overcrowded . |
| 17 | When contracts had been exchanged on the house Lee arranged to go and stay in Wales for a while with friends , a couple with a two-year-old boy , who lived self-sufficiently , an ‘ alternative lifestyle ’ . |
| 18 | Indeed the only recorded deity is Epona , the Celtic horse goddess , whose name had been scratched on the shoulder of a jar found in a pit in the Birch Abbey area . |
| 19 | Although he had been convicted on the king 's own record of his treason , a device used by Edward I against his Scottish enemies , many contemporaries thought that the judgement was of dubious legality . |
| 20 | contribution rule because income support rules had been constructed on the basis that a 20 per cent . |
| 21 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 22 | However SCOTVEC and BTEC had been engaged on a number of discussions on areas of mutual interest . |
| 23 | In the confident years after 1815 Britain 's world-wide influence , buttressed by her navy and her commercial supremacy , had been acknowledged on every side . |
| 24 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 25 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
| 26 | The scandal broke on April 6 when the government of Colombia informed the Antiguan Prime Minister that a shipment of Israeli arms , allegedly intended for Antigua , had been discovered on the property of the late Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha , a leading member of the notorious Medellín cocaine cartel . |
| 27 | I had been warned on the ground to expect the phenomenon ; after a couple more practice stalls , and later in the circuit , I almost got used to it . |
| 28 | A belief in Chinese superiority stemming from a closer approximation to the natural order of the cosmos governed China 's relations with neighbouring peoples , which over centuries had been conducted on a tributary basis . |
| 29 | Although everything had been done on a shoestring , she was pleased with the result — and could not help feeling pleased with his praise . |
| 30 | By the 1970s , the " West Indian language problem " had been probed and discussed by educators and policy makers , but still rather little actual research had been done on the language of the Caribbeans . |