Example sentences of "had been [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been again held back in September because of Argentina 's failure to meet economic performance targets . |
| 2 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 3 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 4 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |
| 5 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 6 | The federation had been formally set up in Paris on Sept. 22 by leaders of the pro-democracy movement who had fled China , including leading economists Yan Jiaqi and Chen Yizi , and Wan Runnan , head of China 's biggest private company , the Stone Co. [ see also p. 36815 ] . |
| 7 | The 25-year-old Dublin soldier had been virtually written off in the welterweight division . |