Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time she reached the boat once more , the banner had been fixed in place , and all she had to do was position herself against it , her body making the bold black outline of the letter T — Trends was the name of her company — emblazoned across the white silk . |
| 2 | We were unable to analyse the phenotype of the lymphocytes producing γ-interferon because the specimens had been fixed in formalin . |
| 3 | A huge , makeshift scaffold had been erected in front of the palace , a long , thick ashen pole fixed into two uprights at either end . |
| 4 | However this may be , Robinson ( 1955 ) , in common with most subsequent investigators of transfer from verbal pretraining to a perceptual task , made use of a quite different task procedure — a test of recognition memory in which the subject had to respond in one way to stimuli that had been presented in pre-training and in a different way to novel stimuli . |
| 5 | She told me that there was some money in a bank account which had been raised in memory of her daughter . |
| 6 | The Supreme Court had been increased in size from five to nine judges by President Carlos Saúl Menem in April , and there were accusations that it was biased in favour of the government . |
| 7 | Whatever the Government say , there can be no doubt from the answers given to parliamentary questions that , if the pension had been increased in line with earnings , a married couple would now receive more than £20 a week extra . |
| 8 | James Graham 's solution was to suggest that the Duke of Montrose dismiss William Weir , but that was easier said than done , for Weir had been appointed in order to oblige one of Montrose 's friends , and James Graham had not made a solution any easier to obtain by promising his substitute that Woodrop should have the appointment of procurator-fiscal to give as he chose . |
| 9 | On 3rd November , 1992 it was announced Bishop Crowley had been appointed in succession to Bishop Harris as Bishop of Middlesbrough . |
| 10 | Lt.-Gen Rahman had held the post since August 1986 when he had been appointed in place of President Hussain Mohammad Ershad [ see p. 34812 ] . |
| 11 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 12 | A makeshift altar had been built in front of the spring . |
| 13 | The underground complex had been built in summer , the construction teams working in three shifts round the dock . |
| 14 | The man , who police believe is instrumental in many UFF attacks , said the organisation had been flooded with young people wanting to join since the UDA was banned last August and said that only one major UFF terrorist unit had been lost in security force operations in the last two years . |
| 15 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
| 16 | I saw that the cell was clean but that several English names had been written in pencil on the wall . |
| 17 | He published an autobiography in 1975 : he chose to portray himself as a rapscallion ( internal evidence suggests that it had been written in jail ) . |
| 18 | Dugan suggested that the military had concluded that air power was the only way of forcing Iraq out of Kuwait if war broke out , and that a massive bombing campaign had been planned in order to " decapitate " the Iraqi leadership by targeting Saddam , his family and his senior commanders . |
| 19 | It concluded that suspicion existed that the action had been planned in advance and was directed by two commands with different instructions . |
| 20 | P'raps the old baggages had been crossed in love . |
| 21 | This in turn made it possible to consider changes in language behaviour which occurred during childhood as products of the same mechanisms which had been documented in respect of other kinds of behaviour ; verbal behaviour was to be understood in terms of the same learning principles which had been derived from studies of the behaviour of rats , pigeons and monkeys . |
| 22 | This had been documented in health studies , and is the daily experience of any worker with travellers on unauthorised sites . |
| 23 | This had been provoked in part by uncertainty following the suspension of the IMF standby agreement of September 1988 [ see p. 36279 ] when the economy failed both the June and September 1989 tests [ for waiver of December 1988 test following hurricane see p. 36930 ] . |
| 24 | On Dec. 29 , 1991 , the official news agency Suna had announced that a jihad ( holy war ) had been declared in south Kordofan . |
| 25 | NSC 68 had been influenced in part by the fear that the United States itself would be vulnerable to Soviet attack as early as 1954 . |
| 26 | But this was nothing : many things that are hard to obtain had been obtained in honour of this scent . |
| 27 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 28 | In this case , Valerie Way , who had been engaged in home/school links work , was widely tipped as the ‘ hot favourite ’ for the post . |
| 29 | The question of law raised by the application was whether Savory Milln could be made personally liable as constructive trustees to repay the £13.5m ( no longer traceable ) which had been applied in discharge of Mr Ferriday 's and other sub-underwriters ' liabilities to Savory Milln . |
| 30 | Sir Emmanuel once sent us some grouse from his own table but it was not to our taste -it had been cooked in port wine and laced with some spices . |