Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , whereas filmmaking technique had been advancing in America , things had almost stood still in Britain . |
| 2 | A joint Russian , Moldovan and Dnestr peacekeeping force had been deployed on July 29 to halt the fighting after an agreement signed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his Moldovan counterpart Mircea Snegur over the future status of the Dnestr region [ for July agreement see p. 39019 ] . |
| 3 | Becoming editor had been the greatest day of his life , and now these people were telling him that his paper was apolitical and had a lack of analysis and editorialization . |
| 4 | Accordingly when , in 1811 , the shearmen of the West Riding , locally known as " croppers " , who had been in regular and supportive contact with the Wiltshire shearmen throughout their struggle , faced the introduction of machinery in their turn , the " peaceful " option of petitioning parliament had been foreclosed . |
| 5 | Reports that Tajikistan was selling uranium had been denied on Jan. 31 in an official statement from Tajikistan 's Foreign Ministry . |
| 6 | Many indicators suggested that reform was too dangerous to be allowed to continue and that the tsar 's capacity for embracing change had been exhausted . |
| 7 | This particular year , however , due to popular demand , we had to run a ‘ second sitting ’ during the summer term , after teaching practice had been completed . |
| 8 | Getting work ticked was my main motivation . |
| 9 | The staff from the Abingdon Sorting Office had been due to resume their duties this afternoon at the end of the county-wide dispute , but the workers there refused to go back after part of an agreement with managers was altered . |
| 10 | The staff from the Abingdon Sorting Office had been due to resume their duties this afternoon at the end of the county-wide dispute , but the workers refused to go back after part of an agreement with managers was altered . |
| 11 | In the Imperial apartments , running water had been installed , but this was the only place where it was to be found and all the other rooms were still dependent on the ministrations of servants . |
| 12 | Stocking knitting had been removing to the east Midlands from the last years of the preceding century . |
| 13 | A 51 year old white man with a 28 year history of ulcerative colitis and ankylosing spondylitis had been receiving longterm treatment with sulphasalazine , until two years previously . |
| 14 | The decision to sack her followed disagreements with the shop manageress but the procedure involving dismissal had been virtually non-existent . |
| 15 | Jamel Mobuto 's first two decrees on taking office had been to free all political prisoners being held there and the immediate dismantling of the Security Police . |
| 16 | BRITISH and Irish ministers last night ended eight hours of talks in London about the reform of the Ulster Defence Regiment without reaching agreement but claiming progress had been made . |
| 17 | Her attack of skittering panic had been unnecessary and foolish . |
| 18 | It was thought that " if the certaine or standing water had been drained , that all the 7 works would conic into one , and that then it would be the best worke that ever was in these parts . " |
| 19 | In earlier years , kids trundling hoops or playing pitch-and-toss had been a target . |
| 20 | By the time a permanent replacement for the prototype was contemplated , it was clear that a definitive method of handling software had been evolved . |
| 21 | Her independence and organizing ability had been displayed early when she joined the Girl Scouts in 1909 and formed the first Bournemouth troop of guides . |
| 22 | This same levelling principle had been behind the creation of the Zaragoza Military Academy and was now applied to politics . |
| 23 | The highest earning salesman had been with the company for seven years and his earnings were £8,500 basic plus £26,850 commission in 1989 . |
| 24 | A social wage had been provided for those unable for whatever reason to earn , or those whose earning capacity had been interrupted by illness , injury , and unemployment . |
| 25 | In 23 patients ( group A ) biliary tract calculi were present either at the time of diagnosis ( 14 patients ) ( Fig 1 ) or subsequently developed some time after the diagnosis of sclerosing cholangitis had been made ( nine patients ) . |
| 26 | The calculi in these latter nine patients were found at intervals varying from 18 to 156 months ( mean 58.7 months ) after sclerosing cholangitis had been diagnosed ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 27 | Her first job on leaving school had been at Whalbys ' . |
| 28 | Mounting dissent had been reported from all 10 homelands after President F. W. de Klerk announced the lifting of some restrictions on political activity in early February [ see p. 37232 ] . |
| 29 | It is worth pointing out that , if the initial Killing vector had been taken to be , which is ( 12.25 ) with and , an equivalent transformation would have been obtained with and . |