Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [been] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students demonstrating on Jan. 7 had been refused permission to hold their rally in Victory Square in central Bucharest , the authorities having cited security concerns . |
| 2 | Apart from the counties a number of urban areas had grown up and many of these had been granted Charters of Incorporation giving them varying powers of local administration . |
| 3 | These had been written weeks before . |
| 4 | Later in 1257 Roger went out to Germany with Richard , where the latter had been elected king . |
| 5 | DWEC was really two companies under one name the Darlington Waggon Co which from 1867–79 had been called Harker and Pickering , and Messrs Wilson Bros and Co which had been established in 1872 . |
| 6 | Richard I had been crowned duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitou in 1172 at Limoges and Poitiers , and the ordo ad benedicendum ( coronation order ) made no reference to the kings of France . |
| 7 | A nephew of Napoleon I had been elected President of the French Second Republic in December 1848 and was to become Emperor of the French in 1852 . |
| 8 | After complete gall stone dissolution , most ( n=77 ) of the patients had taken no post-dissolution treatment but 16 had been given maintenance treatment with half the full dissolution doses of either chenodeyxholic acid or ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 9 | Servicemen 's wives in Langbaurgh widowed before 1973 had been denied allowances because of an oversight during budget cutbacks made to avoid charge-capping , the council said . |
| 10 | B-17F-30-VE 42 — 5897 had been christened Roundtrip Jack and wore an appropriate Jackass caricature with a golden tooth . |
| 11 | Scott said £1.9 million had been spent advertising DWA , compared with £6.4 million for DLA . |
| 12 | Of the hotels in the survey , four had been served improvement notices by environmental health officers , while three had received prohibition notices . |