Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the rest , 38% had approval withheld until certain conditions had been met and 32% had been turned down altogether . |
| 2 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 3 | If thought and study had been restricted to whatever held out the visible prospect of material advantage , that explosive corruscation of human achievement which is European civilisation would never have occurred . |
| 4 | This was a further blow for Adolph Zukor ; both Arbuckle and Taylor had been under contract to him . |
| 5 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 6 | Finland had been invaded and Helsinki had been bombed . |
| 7 | Houses had been flooded and cars had been submerged . |
| 8 | Yet from 10.15p.m. the line bites began and bream had been rolling steadily along the familiar route for almost an hour . |
| 9 | It incorporates information about pre-literate society into the wider theoretical edifice which Engels and Marx had been building all their lives . |
| 10 | Both Anwar and Abdullah had been re-elected as UMNO vice-presidents at the 1990 general assembly [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 11 | Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . |
| 12 | Succour and provisions had been brought in . |
| 13 | Perhaps , humanly speaking , some of us had doubted during a period of economic recession that we would achieve such a level of giving but God had been honoured . |
| 14 | The street shelter had been hit and Ruby had been dug out to see a crater where her house had been and fires burning fiercely everywhere she looked . |
| 15 | Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded . |
| 16 | He promised the Turks assistance not because he wished to establish a protectorate over them , but because he wanted their regime to survive and Britain had been unable to assist them . |
| 17 | All police leave and holidays had been cancelled pending the trial 's outcome . |
| 18 | One of which was the property in Frinton which was owned jointly by Mr and his step mother who was an elderly lady who was then residing in that er property and er around that time on the first of October Mr er telephoned Mr and er told him about that but at that time , was not anticipating that there would be an difficulties about the security on Frinton for these he had always , added his case , made it perfectly clear to the man at the National Westminster Bank with whom he was dealing , Mr that that property was not a property which er could er be offered as security because of the joint ownership and er while in conversation with the bank he understood that this letter had been sent and Mrs had been on holiday and that it was simply oversight on the part of the bank at this stage and that all would well after Mrs returned , which was expected in two weeks time . |
| 19 | Previously estimates and surveys had been conducted in constant prices , rather loosely described as ‘ volume ’ . |
| 20 | They compared the distinguishing characteristics of high-performing and low-performing management groups , and concluded that the way people were handled and results pursued were what mattered most . |
| 21 | Some of the cupboards containing the stock had been unlocked but others had been kicked in . |
| 22 | Attempts to find a medical explanation had failed and police had been called in , he told Nottingham Crown Court , where a former nurse , Beverley Allitt , faced 26 charges , including four of murder . |
| 23 | A report on Estonian Radio on April 27 said that Veering and Puura had been given the responsibility of expediting the setting up of an Estonian Defence Ministry . |
| 24 | The hours devoted to farm work by the part-time farmers was fairly high and it was in these predominantly part-time farm areas that the discrepancy between hours required and hours worked was highest . |