Example sentences of "had [adv] been [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battalion , which had operated in Namibia and Angola , was composed largely of Angolan rebels who had fought in the Angolan civil war , and also a number of white mercenaries ; its members had since been given South African citizenship . |
| 2 | Such license had effectively been denied Galileo who , by his friend Ciampoli , had been advised to suppress remarks that might imply extraterrestrial life : Would they not invite awkward questions such as how descendants of Adam and Eve could have reached the moon ? |
| 3 | Amnesty , denounced by Wijeratne in 1990 as a " terrorist organization " , had hitherto been denied access to Sri Lanka , most recently at the height of the JVP insurgency in 1989 [ for December 1989 , September 1990 Amnesty reports see pp. 37353 ; 37711 ] . |
| 4 | The specialist reassured him plans were being worked out by his colleagues even as they spoke , and it had all been taken care of . |
| 5 | Once again the solicitor representing them said that there was not and that his clients had put him in difficulties , as he had only been given instructions a week before . |
| 6 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 7 | However , he said : ‘ The case we would have put had already been voiced March and it would have taken two months for the appeal to be heard during which time there would be no money coming in to provide council services , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The bill had already been taken care of , she found out as she asked a porter to help with their bags . |
| 9 | The Gloucester branch had already been fined £3,600 for similar offences , the city 's magistrates were told . |
| 10 | He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany . |
| 11 | Alan Smith had just been appointed editor and was about to change the whole face of the paper , ditching those who revered Cilla as the greatest swinger on the block . |
| 12 | Ken , who although he had just been appointed Bishop , was still a Royal Chaplain , remained beside the bed of the dying King for three days and nights , ‘ watching at proper intervals to suggest pious and proper thoughts and ejaculations on so serious an occasion ’ . |
| 13 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 14 | It was his grandson who , in 1831 , enlisted the help of a Lambton , who had just been made Earl of Durham , to prove his claim to the Earldom of Perth . |
| 15 | In a radio broadcast on 1 October 1936 , the day he was officially invested as Head of State , Franco hinted at how he envisaged the organization of the as yet non-existent state of whose equally non-existent government he had just been made leader . |
| 16 | Perhaps I was just being a ridiculous prig , behaving quite differently from anyone else who had ever been taken prisoner . |
| 17 | The play had still been called Funeral Games up to this point . |
| 18 | He had also been made steward of Tottington , Rochdale and Penwortham just two weeks before the grant to Gloucester . |
| 19 | He had also been made steward of Tottington , Rochdale and Penwortham just two weeks before the grant to Gloucester . |
| 20 | To rally support the government had raised the pay of military personnel by 20 per cent in 1989 , and civil servants had also been awarded pay rises . |
| 21 | Christmas Eve brought us the good news that we had also been awarded Phase II of the East Merthyr Reclamation Scheme , known as Great White Tip . |
| 22 | He said he had also been offered interviews with ministers in the South African government , so that he could form a balanced judgement , but had declined . |
| 23 | We got a tremendous shock of course and I was extremely upset because the love of my life had nearly been made part of the road surface . |
| 24 | It had originally been refused permission by the government on the grounds that commercial exploitation of natural resources in a National Park is illegal . |
| 25 | David Ashford , who 's a teacher , had even been given permission to take twelve weeks off work . |
| 26 | Until then , they had simply been called Nazareans . |
| 27 | The Prince had earlier been declared King by an assembly of 22 traditional chiefs . |
| 28 | The woman had earlier been refused permission to see her lover , a ’ life partner ’ , as the catholic hospital refused to recognise their relationship as having ’ family status ’ . |
| 29 | Regeneration of forest clearly occurred in the post-Roman period — but it was regeneration over areas which had either been managed woodland or arable ( Fig. 92 ) . |
| 30 | Mrs Young said she had previously been handed notes by deaf people in the shop . |