Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her accusing eyes had been fixed on the solitary figure who 'd stood a little apart from the others , as if not sure of his right to be there . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Robert Schuman , the French foreign minister after July 1948 who had been raised on the Franco-German border , was attracted to European unity as a way to bring a rapprochement between the two countries . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The houses had been built on a concrete raft on an infilled site . |
| 6 | Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . |
| 7 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 8 | On July 16 the Supreme Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to explain the nature of a concrete platform that had been built on the disputed site , and on July 22 declared that it would refuse to adjudicate on the issue until all construction activities had ceased . |
| 9 | A low , curving wall faced with flint had been built on the seaward boundary behind whose shelter every spring a bright ribbon of daffodils strained and tossed in the March winds . |
| 10 | It had been built on the seaward side of a small cottage that had evidently existed before it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I made some further enquiries and it transpired that Len had been convicted on a drink-driving offence and had lost his driving licence . |
| 13 | Although trenches had been constructed on a limited scale in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5 , they became a significant factor in warfare only in World War I. By the end of 1914 , the conflict had developed into what amounted to a siege and both Allied and German soldiers dug trenches to protect themselves from enemy small-arms and machine-gun fire . |
| 14 | It also noted that the Brady plan had been applied on a slow-moving voluntary basis which depended on the goodwill of creditor governments and banks , and claimed that in the absence of such goodwill debtor governments had had no alternative but to declare moratoriums as a means of attracting attention to their situation . |
| 15 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 16 | The setting for Adieu consisted of a couple of pillars and a couch that was all too obviously a crude wooden structure draped with material , giving the clear impression that the ballet had been mounted on the cheap . |
| 17 | He ascertained that it had been a normal birth , but that terrible injuries had been inflicted on the poor child soon afterwards . |
| 18 | One of the company 's washing machines had been featured on a well-known consumer affairs television programme , and some of the selling tactics used by Argent Distributors ' salespersons were deemed to be rather suspect . |
| 19 | Nothing quite like it had been seen on the Allied side hitherto . |
| 20 | The work for this group had been arranged on a large but highly specialised farm , which concentrated on growing bulbs , flowers and potatoes . |
| 21 | Denktash accused Vassiliou of intransigence , while Vassiliou in turn accused Denktash of trying to change the terms of the negotiations , which had been based on a long-standing UN-sponsored plan for a bizonal federal republic , with no provision for secession or dissolution . |
| 22 | But if MAFF 's original assessment for the UK 's LFA had been based on an objective survey rather than merely regurgitating the ‘ hill line ’ drawn up under the 1946 Hill Farming Act , it would have had a more reliable basis to which the results of its Hills and Uplands land classification could have been added to determine some meaningful handicap zones . |
| 23 | If accumulation in the boom had been based on an unchanged mass of machinery per worker then an extension of the capital stock would have required an equivalent increase in workers employed . |
| 24 | Most of the heads ' experiences had been based on the former , although some of the schools had experienced formula funding since April 1988 . |
| 25 | On the second visit Mr. Burgess was given instructions different from those he had been given on the first visit . |
| 26 | A few words in Spanish had been painted on the tack-room roof . |
| 27 | A Danish yawl had been wrecked on the far side of the island two years before and Bonefish had rescued some of her oak timbers which he had scarfed in to Masquerade 's broken hull . |
| 28 | A joint statement issued by the two leaders described the meeting as an ‘ important step in the process of putting US-Soviet relations on a more productive and sustainable basis ’ ; in particular , a draft treaty on the reduction and limitation of strategic nuclear arms had been discussed and a series of agreements had been made on the contentious question of the verification of nuclear testing . |
| 29 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 30 | Two litre bottles of mineral water had been placed on a small wooden table with a hard-backed chair . |