Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lo Cascio was said to have established links with Colombian and Venzuelan drug cartels , while the financial side of the operation was the work of Ulrich Bahl , a German businessman who for some months had been imprisoned in the USA on charges of passing forged banknotes . |
| 2 | The secret decision to continue production was teken by the President after several options had been presented to him by the Pentagon and the State Department . |
| 3 | Board members tried the questions and found that the ‘ level of some questions had been pitched unrealistically high . ’ |
| 4 | Parts of some letters had been chipped away , but a careful paint job had cured them . |
| 5 | The existence of such conflicts had been acknowledged and deplored as early as the 1580s by George Gifford 's non-Puritan countryman , who had commented : ‘ I know towns myself which are divided one part against another since they had a preacher , which was not so before … whereas before they loved each other , now there is dissension sown among them . ’ |
| 6 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 7 | Although cruder versions of such theories had been abandoned by the end of the nineteenth century , preformationist ideas still present an important theory . |
| 8 | Sales of monastic lands brought in perhaps £800,000 between 1539 and 1547 ; by then two-thirds of these lands had been sold and given away . |
| 9 | I was tempted when examining these drawings to propose a hypothesis that some of these artists had been attracted to formalism and minimalism because of its supposed neutrality ; the absent author was , after all , without gender . |
| 10 | The fact that three of these families had been moderately wealthy in Palestine and had managed to acquire the same social status in their exile — that they behaved and looked like millions of middle-class couples in Europe , or indeed in Israel — only compounded my error . |
| 11 | Many of these teachers had been learners in the original literacy campaign . |
| 12 | It was not surprising , therefore , to find evidence that many of these teachers had been making carefully thought out and constructive efforts to develop more structured and appropriate approaches to this kind of assessment ; a process that has undoubtedly been accelerated by the introduction of the GCSE . |
| 13 | The repeal of these laws had been a persistent demand of human rights and opposition groups . |
| 14 | A small number of these posts had been created recently by the head in a conscious attempt to institutionalise the motivation of curricular and related developments . |
| 15 | Most of these women had been in what they called ‘ the therapy situation ’ for years . |
| 16 | One of these women had been paid to pretend to be sick , and Ingrid was to take her place . |
| 17 | But the tribunal said only one of these complaints had been proved — a charge that McBride left a hospital after treating a pregnant woman without making proper arrangements for her further care . |
| 18 | None of these projects had been completed . |
| 19 | None of these projects had been completed He ran hither and thither between the shelves of Eng . |
| 20 | In fact , it is highly questionable whether the royal use of these powers had been illegal . |
| 21 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |
| 22 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 23 | Almost all of these estates had been mortgaged and German banks were unwilling to lend more money at the rates the Junkers requested . |
| 24 | More than a third of these conditions had been previously undetected , and two-thirds of the illnesses were manageable , while half of them were totally cleared up by treatment . |
| 25 | Somebody calculated that if the surface of the earth was covered with a layer of protein molecules a metre thick , right over the whole surface of the earth erm each one , each protein different from every other one , and let us suppose furthermore that each of these proteins had been changing once as second , uniquely , into some different kind ever since the formation of the earth , we would still have tried out only quite a small fraction of the available possible proteins a hundred amino acids long . |
| 26 | ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long . |
| 27 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 28 | Many of these boats had been supplied to foreign naval powers and had been proved able and fast in all sea conditions . |
| 29 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 30 | Birth records have been obtained for the 42 children with cancer diagnosed up to the age of 4 years throughout Cumbria during 1984–90 in order to investigate the possibility that some of these children had been born in Seascale and then moved , but in fact only the child resident in Seascale at diagnosis was also domiciled there at birth . |