Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he 'd been kept in secure accommodation 3 times in his life , he was now in a stable relationship with a new foster mother . |
| 2 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 3 | She 'd been married in that hat . |
| 4 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 5 | Edinburgh , Glasgow , and London ( particularly Imperial College ) universities have all been involved in major research projects in this area , although the major structural problems had been elucidated in 1906 by scientists from the then Geological Survey of Scotland ( Peach and others . |
| 6 | On Aug. 26 Sampson had begun legal proceedings to secure an early release , arguing that 11 years in exile in France should count towards his sentence , which had been pronounced in 1976 [ see p. 27980 ] . |
| 7 | But although it brought victory to the Black Prince , the battle of Nájera was to be the cause of the renewal of the war which had been halted in 1360 . |
| 8 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 9 | It was a dramatic gesture , a revelation ; it put him in a position of power , if only for a moment , but he liked that position and his primacy had been denied in that group of irreverents . |
| 10 | Grb2 binding of Sos1 in vitro facilitated the rapid mapping of the sites of interaction : the SH3 domains were clear candidates for interaction on the Grb2 protein because mutation in these domains had been detected in genetic screens in worms , and indeed both SH3 domains of Grb2 are required for high-affinity binding . |
| 11 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 12 | To allow VIP 's , press and cameramen a view , a double line of ropes had been erected in certain areas to allow the chosen few a front row . |
| 13 | They comprised the Bullhouse corn mill , a fulling mill ( later a wire mill ) which had given its name to a new settlement at Millhouse Green , the Ecklands bridge paper mill ( later an umbrella works ) , the Plumpton cloth mill , the Thurlstone corn mill and another cloth mill which had been erected in 1740 as an oil mill for crushing rape and linseed . |
| 14 | All Saints Church had been erected in 1876–8 , but after being damaged during World War II , it was demolished and most of its parish was combined with that of St Barnabas so that the latter church was renamed All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 15 | The first glass works in south Yorkshire had been erected in 1632 at Glasshouse Green , Wentworth , on the estate of Sir Thomas Wentworth , the great Earl of Strafford , but it had ceased production before the Civil War . |
| 16 | Jorge Born , a leading grain dealer , who , with his brother Juan , had been kidnapped in 1974 by the Peronist Montoneros guerrilla group [ see p. 26762 ] , called in August for a complete amnesty for both sides involved in the dirty war . |
| 17 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 18 | Compared to this Packard-Merlin , the Mk III had been raised in immaculate condition and its rocker covers still gleam with the original black paintwork . |
| 19 | It had been raised in international conferences in the late 1960s but was first officially presented by a Malaysian diplomat in April 1970 at the preparatory meeting of the non-aligned states in Dar-es-Salaam . |
| 20 | The issue of the lack of variety in the Art curriculum , which had been raised in earlier meetings was raised again . |
| 21 | The first foreign office librarian had been appointed in 1800 : when he retired a decade later he had organised this mass of papers into a systematic and usable collection . |
| 22 | Torumtay , who had been appointed in mid-1987 [ see p. 35910 ] , was replaced on Dec. 4 by Gen. Dogan Gures , hitherto Ground Forces Commander [ see p. 37592 ] , who was in turn succeeded by Gen. Muhittin Fisunoglu . |
| 23 | My predecessor , who played the double-bass , had been appointed in 1935 , and I was only the third headmaster to hold office since the death of Queen Victoria . |
| 24 | The Crick Committee , which had been appointed in 1961 and reported on A Higher Award in Business Studies in 1964 , had originally been looking for an equivalent of the DipTech , but had waited for the Robbins Report before issuing its recommendations . |
| 25 | Duncan , a Cambridge graduate , had also been a candidate for the post when Peirson had been appointed in 1647 , but the Company , anxious to avoid any trouble and to be reconciled with the townspeople , had on both occasions chosen Stockport 's nominee . |
| 26 | The title Rex Anglorum had been adopted in early papal correspondence . |
| 27 | The ANC held a policy conference in Johannesburg on May 28-31 aimed at developing the organization 's principal guiding document , the Freedom Charter , which had been adopted in 1955 . |
| 28 | A policy of nothing less than ‘ state terrorism ’ had been adopted in Central America , the Middle East , Afghanistan and southern Africa . |
| 29 | Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools . |
| 30 | The principle had been adopted in most , if not all , Commonwealth countries ; though in some it has now been modified or abandoned , either by statute or by judicial action . |