Example sentences of "[verb] [vb past] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 140 people listed had been detained in a wave of arrests in Nouakchott and Nouadhibou beginning in November 1990 . |
| 2 | The bill was reportedly designed to restore the government 's Islamic credentials which its critics maintained had been undermined by Pakistan 's participation in the Western-dominated multinational force opposing Iraq in the Gulf [ see pp. 37639 ; 37641 ; 37694 ] . |
| 3 | There was apparently an agreement between Pickard and Wasbrough allowing the latter to use the crank , and the engine-builder who was most incensed at the patenting of a device which he maintained had been known for centuries was James Watt [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman will know , or at least his advisers will know , that regulation 72 was originally introduced in April 1987 to provide for the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases where an error in the determination of entitlement to benefit had been made by an official of the Department . |
| 5 | Its awe-inspiring interior space was to an extent destroyed by the exhibition display demonstrating how the urge to discover and explore had been expressed throughout the ages . |
| 6 | A piece of pastureland adjoining had been given by the Laird , so dense was the population of the dead in that rank square ; but the people would not use it , they would rather return to the hallowed earth of the dead from whose collective and immortal life they had themselves briefly emerged … ‘ |
| 7 | For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son … |
| 8 | America 's faltering recovery continued with a 6.7% rise in housing starts in April over the previous month , lower than had been expected after a first quarter in which housing starts had been curbed by bad weather . |
| 9 | The process of undercutting the existing wage rate would continue until all of those willing to work had been absorbed into employment . |
| 10 | But this was nothing : many things that are hard to obtain had been obtained in honour of this scent . |
| 11 | Many of the characters considered had been shown by other workers to be of selective importance in white clover or another species of Trifolium ( e.g. Cahn & Harper ( 1976b ) had presented evidence suggesting that sheep selected between leaf marks ; Dirzo & Harper ( 1982a ) and others have shown that slugs select between cyanogenic and acyanogenic forms ; Black ( 1960 ) had shown the selective value of long petioles ) . |
| 12 | McIntosh is too much the diplomat to say what he really thinks about the firm 's three year spell inside the TSB empire , except to say two things — firstly that he doubts whether it either made or lost much money on its investment , and secondly that Hill Samuel was very supportive once the decision to sell had been taken in principle . |
| 13 | Eisenhower had presided over a period of grim Cold War tension which he , like most Americans , believed had been caused by the ambitions of world communism . |
| 14 | Britain was a different world , groggy and cynical after years during which the government was betrayed by a left-dominated trade union movement which it mistakenly believed had been tamed under a ‘ social contract ’ . |
| 15 | Every house he had visited had been littered with the things : no doubt looked at with pride for a little while , then becoming just another object to dust . |
| 16 | The performance of the homes sits in the Orlando area - Davenport Glen and Chatham Park — exceeded our expectations , whilst Monterey in Dade County produced a range of homes which appealed very strongly to local residents including some whose motivation to purchase had been prompted by the hurricane while swept through southern Florida last year . |
| 17 | Its attempt to make farmers pay for the pollution they caused had been overturned by the environmentally primitive MAFF . |
| 18 | Invariably the cases studied had been referred for a variety of concerns and worries about the children but there was no unequivocal evidence that the children were abused according to any definition . |
| 19 | Both the branches studied had been influenced by this political directive . |
| 20 | This presumably reflected a belief either that the damage caused by opencasting had been exaggerated by Flowers or that this damage was fully justified by the perceived benefits gained from increased production . |
| 21 | Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival . |
| 22 | ‘ In the case of a fugitive criminal accused of an extradition crime , if the foreign warrant authorising the arrest of such criminal is duly authenticated , and such evidence is produced as ( subject to the provisions of this Schedule ) would , according to the law of England and Wales , justify the committal for trial of the prisoner if the crime of which he is accused had been committed in England or Wales , the metropolitan magistrate shall commit him to prison , but otherwise shall order him to be discharged . |
| 23 | Behind him the door of the house whose occupant he had just been interviewing had been dosed with considerable firmness . |
| 24 | More than one in five of the requested items which could not be supplied had been sent for binding . |
| 25 | However , where the lease contains a reservation in favour of the landlord it is construed as if the right reserved had been granted to the landlord by the tenant . |
| 26 | The very sheds where their boilers were forged had been levelled to the ground . |
| 27 | In two test cases involving boys under the age of five , application to be housed had been made in the name of child after the parents had been refused accommodation . |
| 28 | Outside the cottage door was a huge , ominous-looking shell which we were told had been fired from a battleship during World War I ; and John pointed out to us exactly where the Royal Oak had been torpedoed in 1939 . |
| 29 | So far as he knew , everything that had been transcribed had been lodged with Jackson 's , in copy . |
| 30 | The decision to apply had been taken by the government in May 1991 . |