Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [been] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned on the television to watch the midday news and learned that an impasse had been reached between the American and Icelandic leaders during their discussions about the reduction of nuclear weapons . |
| 2 | A further step towards the creation of an Inuit homeland had been taken on April 27 when government and Inuit negotiators announced that they had initialled the Nunavut Political Accord . |
| 3 | In reality , it was part of a wider problem , perhaps best expressed in the Quadrilogue invectif of the Norman , Alain Chartier , written in 1422 when his homeland had been overrun by the English . |
| 4 | He was not conscious of having had any contact with a clergyman since school , where religion had been regarded as an unavoidable mixed dose of discipline , cissiness and mild buffoonery . |
| 5 | The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection . |
| 6 | The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels . |
| 7 | In the past the association had been dedicated to the supreme claims of morality and to the exposure of the error of ‘ so-called hygiene ’ , which sought to subordinate justice and personal liberty to alleged physical necessities . |
| 8 | She grasped the light covering and was about to throw it off when she realised from the fabric 's texture that her own cotton skirt had been laid over her . |
| 9 | His coach had been parked out of sight while his white saddle horse had been tethered to a post at the roadside so that the passing soldiers would think their Emperor was riding to war instead of being carried in upholstered comfort . |
| 10 | Only the owner was excluded from the common knowledge at Kempton that day : that her horse had been wrestled into second place by an apprentice who could n't anticipate the obvious . |
| 11 | Diamonds Galore 's jockey Aaron Gryder could hardly believe that his horse had been murdered by a youngster . |
| 12 | Barnet manager Barry Fry was convinced yesterday afternoon that the £500,000 deal for the forward had been struck between his chairman Stan Flashman and United chief executive Martin Edwards . |
| 13 | In 1944 a Special Air Service Brigade had been formed in Ayrshire . |
| 14 | The formation of a Franco-German military force had been under discussion for several years , and a 4,000-strong brigade had been agreed in principle in November 1987 [ see p. 35665 ; 35913 ] and started operations in October 1990 [ see p. 38473 ] . |
| 15 | An altar to the side had been decorated with flowers and large candles now lit up John 's photograph . |
| 16 | All it 's side had been shaved as if it had been an o had an operation . |
| 17 | And it is left obvious that the card had been printed for her aides to make notes for her forthcoming speeches . |
| 18 | An Access card had been found at a meeting of the Liberal Democrats for Eastern Region contracts , and , M S Sue Sutton , who was a candidate for |
| 19 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
| 20 | The completion of the West European scheme for economic recovery and the formation by the East Europeans of the Cominform in September 1947 , meant that the Continent had been severed in two . |
| 21 | It is possible that the experiment had been done by an American embryologist many years earlier but its significance was overlooked . |
| 22 | An earlier breakthrough by an enemy motor rifle division supported by tanks and artillery had been halted by 6th Armoured Brigade , of which the Royal Scots form a part . |
| 23 | His horse had been slaughtered and a shotgun had been fired through his window at dead of night . |
| 24 | One witness claimed a shotgun had been brandished before police arrived at the scene . |
| 25 | Egyptian references maintain that the whole body was recovered , but Plutarch says that the penis had been eaten by a Nile fish and through her magic Isis had to create a substitute . |
| 26 | In their study of 115 rape victims , Burgess and Holmstrom found that vaginal penetration by the penis had been accompanied by forced fellatio in 22 per cent . |
| 27 | Long ago the Vexin had been divided into two along the line of the River Epte : on the east bank the French Vexin held by the King of France , on the west the Norman Vexin held by the Duke of Normandy . |
| 28 | Symptoms developed four weeks after treatment for eczema had been started by the same hakim who had treated the first patient . |
| 29 | On 19 May Gloucester ordered Robert Pemberton to seize Wymington ( Beds. ) , the land of Rivers ' brother Richard , and on 21 May the tenants of Thorpe Waterville ( Northants ) were notified that the manor had been granted to Gloucester 's ally Francis viscount Lovell . |
| 30 | On 19 May Gloucester ordered Robert Pemberton to seize Wymington ( Beds. ) , the land of Rivers ' brother Richard , and on 21 May the tenants of Thorpe Waterville ( Northants ) were notified that the manor had been granted to Gloucester 's ally Francis viscount Lovell . |