Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two makeshift goal-posts had been erected using assorted lengths of strapped sugar cane , and she could hear a lively dispute about the penalty rules . |
| 2 | He had had all the advantages of what my father called ‘ a good family background ’ ; he spoke with an educated voice ; he had been raised to respect good manners . |
| 3 | Inspectors had been appointed to investigate two companies under the control of Robert Maxwell . |
| 4 | He did n't see where their baskets were filled , but he observed that soldiers had been appointed to escort each laden man to his house , and that the man 's chin would already be glistening , from the raw food that he chewed as he hastened . |
| 5 | He added that as in previous redundancies , a re-settlement officer had been appointed to help those leaving the Commission . |
| 6 | It had been built to accommodate sixteen patients and in February of that year was occupied by twenty-one paupers , for whose maintenance the Board of Guardians had been responsible . |
| 7 | The move was announced as the Soviet Union came under increasing pressure to hold a summit meeting , at which it had been planned to initiate major changes in the organization , as agreed in principle at the June 1990 summit of the Pact [ see p. 37550 ] . |
| 8 | It had been planned to provide two grandstand finishes on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons when television viewing would be at its peak . |
| 9 | Originally it had been planned to convert five oil/gas-fired power stations to coal but this programme has been cut to three . |
| 10 | They had hurt him again , killing el-Meshad in Paris in 1980 , and frightening off the Italian companies who had been engaged to deliver hot cell boxes . |
| 11 | The wider operations were the responsibility of Task Force Atlantic , which included naval forces and troops which had been sent to reinforce Southern Command earlier in the year . |
| 12 | I did not see her again until during the afternoon lessons , when I noticed that she had been sent to stand alone in the middle of the schoolroom . |
| 13 | They had been warned to report any further attacks and obviously do n't want to take any chances . |
| 14 | Detective Inspector Alan Brown said it had been done to create more addicts but resulted in a trebling of the number of fatalities . |
| 15 | This had been done to give greater flexibility for time off to do the farm work . |
| 16 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
| 17 | On Jan. 2 fighters of the Fatah group ( loyal to Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) chair Yassir Arafat ) , which had been deployed to protect two Palestinian refugee camps near Sidon , were caught up in the intra-Shia fighting . |
| 18 | Also , apparently , Matron had been overheard making some indelicate comment to one of the cleaners about the state of Harding 's sheets . |
| 19 | At the time of its establishment the Commission had been asked to give first priority to a study of young offenders under twenty-one and their treatment . |
| 20 | Philip Head , Chief Executive of the WDA , said it was the first time the agency had been asked to source Welsh suppliers for a company based in Germany and resulted directly from the WDA campaign to build business links with the motor regions of Europe . |
| 21 | Mr Michael had been asked to arrange electronic sweeps of all office communication equipment in the interests of personal security . |
| 22 | It had been asked to do strange one-off affairs and its reports had been leaked and bandied about in Parliament and any role it was originally supposed to have , as a systematic , regular bringing-together of reports of programme analysis throughout Whitehall to present an overall strategic picture to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet , had long since disappeared . |
| 23 | Sometimes he managed to abstract a page he particularly liked and take it home , He had a whole article on a young actress who had been asked to model some clothes . |
| 24 | They had been asked to make sure it was safe before a forensic science and firearms team from Huntingdon could examine it in detail . |
| 25 | He had been asked to speak some months ago on the subject , ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ . |
| 26 | At an emergency Arab League meeting in Cairo on March 22 [ see p. 38839 ] a seven-member committee had been formed to investigate possible solutions to the dispute . |
| 27 | On the morning of 9 November , Sydney sighted Emden and pinned her to the shore of Keeling Island , one of the Cocos group , on which a German party had been landed to destroy essential cable and wireless installations connecting Australian , African and Indian telegraph systems . |
| 28 | On the nights previous to the murder he had been seen lurking outside party headquarters . |
| 29 | The meeting , originally scheduled for Feb. 11-13 [ see p. 37945 ] , was jointly announced by Bush and Gorbachev on July 17 when they met in London during a brief visit by Gorbachev who had been invited to meet assembled heads of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) countries [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 30 | Hilary had been invited to present two papers ; the main one ‘ Recreative Movement and Dance in the United Kingdom for the Dance Section and another entitled ‘ The Voice of British Sport — the Central Council of Physical Recreation ’ for the Administration Section . |