Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] be [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an ink nib had been added the name of Michael Holly . |
| 2 | The Duke of Mar , unwelcome in Scotland following his much-criticised flight after ‘ The Fifteen ’ , was employed as a decoy , leaving Rome with a large retinue , by way of Florence , and by the time the imposture had been discovered the real Pretender had , on 8 February 1719 , himself left Rome undetected , the start of a journey which , had the stakes not been so high , would have belonged to the realm of farce . |
| 3 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 4 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 5 | But in general , discounting was this year considered of less significance than the proliferation of bargain bookshops , whose advent had been heralded the previous year but whose growth in numbers has evidently continued since . |
| 6 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 7 | Allison was among many who were convinced that the Welshman had been denied the 60metres hurdles crown because the race starter , Toronto property manager Ron Bell , had let local hero Mark McKoy get away with a ‘ flyer ’ . |
| 8 | Tom DeMoss joined the project in 1979 ( after the first team had been given the boot ) . |
| 9 | An improvement on this basic design was to use a lightweight but rigid rotating rod on which to mount the magnet and mirror , and attach a coil spring at one end , so that once any change in potential difference had been registered the mirror would swing back to its original position . |
| 10 | The allegation of negligence was that the defendant had failed to observe a foetal abnormality during pregnancy and the plaintiff had been denied the possibility of an abortion . |
| 11 | It announced on July 15 that an attempted coup had been foiled the previous night . |
| 12 | , business director of Courtaulds Aerospace in Germany , said it was the first time in the world that a chromate-free coating had been given the go-ahead for civil aircraft manufacture . |
| 13 | On the first day , the match score had been printed the wrong way round after he had beaten Julian Evans 7–5 , 7–5 . |
| 14 | Her body had been found the morning before by the side of the pool in the little park on the south side of the royal compound . |
| 15 | It was a shame that there was nothing from the boy 's mother , but then it was only Thursday and perhaps since war had been declared the post was being delayed . |
| 16 | Benny did n't know that the three priests who lived in the presbytery had been given the game of Scrabble , which they played every night , and sometimes rang the convent to ask Mother Francis questions like how you spelt quixotic' because Father O'Brien was going to get a triple word score . |
| 17 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 18 | His tattoo had been done the previous winter by a Chinese man in Harlesden , who specialized in non-fade colours , fluorescents and airbrush fantasy . |
| 19 | Once one valid parse had been obtained the parsing process could cease . |
| 20 | This slimline classic had been given the distinctive dinner suit look with satin lapels and buttons . |
| 21 | Mr Allan denied the council had been obstructive and said several residents who had visited the authority had been shown the plans . |
| 22 | Rioting erupted in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 3 as news spread that a Palestinian detainee had been killed the previous day by soldiers . |
| 23 | Interviewed in Edinburgh after a Class 91 electric locomotive had been named The Scotsman by the paper 's editor , Magnus Linklater , Mr Green stressed his belief that the Glasgow-London Euston route had a good future . |
| 24 | Because their environment had been reduced the pandas had no alternative but to remain where there was no food . |
| 25 | Since the block had been removed the day before , and Ewan 's program had started to run , she had felt like a cat on heat . |
| 26 | By the time the cigarette had been smoked the fire had burnt out . |
| 27 | United have not given up hope of signing the England international despite having a formally faxed £3.5 million offer for the striker thrown in the bin by Sheffield Wednesday last Friday , after a verbal offer had been refused the previous week . |
| 28 | The way it was done was that if you imagine putting one card in for psychology , two cards in for research methods , one card in for psychoanalytical approaches , three cards in for memory and so on and so forth an then they were sort of drawn out and then when a topic had been picked the other cards were removed . |
| 29 | The beach had been promised the night before , but rain had obliged an alternative treat . |
| 30 | If an automatic had been used the cartridge cases should be there . |