Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , many of the young men Crawford had been engaged at great expense to coach found themselves in khaki instead of cricket whites . |
| 2 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 3 | Although the talks had been called at short notice in an attempt to reduce bilateral tensions , particularly in the light of recent failures in official negotiations , they were felt by press observers to have produced only ambiguous results . |
| 4 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 5 | Sliding hiatel hernia had been seen at preoperative cineradiography in 16 of 21 patients with follow up endoscopy , but no paraoesophageal hernia . |
| 6 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 7 | He spoke to the officer on desk duty who said that a complaint against Russell had been made at another station . |
| 8 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 9 | Whether the production work sharing is something that is still to be decided er at the start of that phase but on the equipment , we were er originally entitled to thirty three percent of the common equipment er when we last gave evidence to the committee the U K work share for equipment stood at some thirty six percent of those that had been selected at that time . |
| 10 | The teachers had been trained at two training colleges in Kemmendine , those for primary schools studying for one year and those for middle schools for two years . |
| 11 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 12 | The different perspectives of EP and parents were reflected in the confusion over what had been decided at that meeting . |
| 13 | He had a face that was both sensuous and battered — his nose had been broken at some time — with deep pouches under his dark eyes . |
| 14 | One of Shaughnessy 's sources , with close links to Israeli intelligence , actually claimed to have heard the tapes of these telephone intercepts , and another , well-connected with the US intelligence community , confirmed not only that the Iranian Embassy 's calls had been monitored at that time but also the substance of the Lovejoy — Niknam conversations . |
| 15 | No father ( of a case or control ) had accumulated a recorded dose of more than 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and no father had been monitored at any time in the four years before his child was conceived . |
| 16 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 17 | In addition , inter-ministerial committees were to be set up to settle administrative questions which , until then , had been discussed at ministerial level . |
| 18 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 19 | The same scheme had been tried at another camp with four ladders . |
| 20 | It was reported that loads of rubbish , mostly by the firm ‘ plant ’ had been dumped at this location . |
| 21 | The budget for the first half of 1918 had been estimated at 17.6 milliard roubles expenditure , but revenue at only 2.8 milliard . |
| 22 | George nodded and said the whole train had been rewatered at that point . |
| 23 | He had a good look at it and said part of the pedestal had been mended at some time which took away a lot of the value . |
| 24 | All of its metals had been freighted at colossal expense from Earth ; there was n't a natural curve to be seen , just endless arches and spires designed like a vast piece of jewellery . |
| 25 | The serial numbers suggest that a large number had been issued at some time , the rate from Craven Arms to Bishop 's Castle was ¼d as against 1/11d for an ordinary Third Class ticket . |
| 26 | In 1987 , 233 had been admitted at some time into the prison hospital . |
| 27 | Of the 766 hereditary peers listed in Dod 's Parliamentary Companion in 1987 , almost all had been educated at public school , no less than 371 of them — almost half — at Eton . |