Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two pieces of steel had been fixed in vices and the two men had set to work on them simultaneously . |
| 2 | During the morning the accumulated household junk had been stacked in piles beside the steps . |
| 3 | The Birmingham Six case was the latest in a series where convictions had been overturned in cases arising from the Irish Republican Army 's 1974 public house bombings in England , the " Guildford Four " having been freed in October 1989 [ see p. 36983 ] and the " Maguire seven " in June 1990 [ see p. 37536 ] . |
| 4 | Normal excretion values had been obtained in patients with the irritable bowel syndrome ( n=14 ) who excreted 0.5% ( mean ) with an upper limit of normal at 1% . |
| 5 | The victim , Bheki Mlangeni , had been engaged in investigations into the activities of police " death squads " [ see p. 37952 ] and the much-criticized Civil Co-operation Bureau ( CCB ) of the South African Defence Force , which , it had been alleged , was formed to eliminate anti-government activists . |
| 6 | The ship had been engaged in protests against the tests . |
| 7 | The evidence indicated , he said , that Bulgarian state security employees had been engaged in preparations for the assassination of Markov . |
| 8 | To establish the viability of this approach for probing crude nuclear extracts we first tested the ability of 32 P-labelled CREB to detect itself or ATF1 that had been overexpressed in bacteria ( figure 3 ) . |
| 9 | Gazzer was twenty-two years old and had been compared in looks to a pit bull , entirely to the dog 's advantage . |
| 10 | The statement would simply say that an exchange had been arranged in conditions of total secrecy , as demanded by the kidnappers , an unspecified ransom had been paid , and that they had broken their word . |
| 11 | Her largest dreams , her most foolish fantasies , had been enacted in bricks and mortar and mantelshelves and tiled floors and plaster ceilings . |
| 12 | Prior to that it had been viewed in terms of an individual 's placatory act of redemption to the deity ( or deities ) and later as a rite of initiation into the tribe , so marking the male 's passage firstly to ordinary , profane existence and secondly to full , public and potentially active membership of society . |
| 13 | At the end of the five-year period , no money had been invested in projects for broadcasting except for a new medium wave transmitter in Dar es Salaam . |
| 14 | We on these Benches agree with his wish that the money thrown at the poll tax had been invested in schools , hospitals and job creation . |
| 15 | Announcing the results of the extended talks , Baker said that " clear gains " had been achieved in arms control and trade issues , but achievements on human rights were " not as much as we would have hoped for " . |
| 16 | European Community ( EC ) leaders warned in a declaration issued in Birmingham on Oct. 16 [ see p. 39158 ] that they would ask the Security Council to consider enforcement measures if delays continued , and the Geneva conference was informed on Oct. 19 that all Serbian aircraft in Bosnia had been placed in hangars ready for transfer . |
| 17 | These verbs had been selected in groups of three from four categories : dynamic verbs of activity ; dynamic momentary verbs ; stative verbs of inert perception ; and stative relational verbs . |
| 18 | Until 1960 nothing was known of it except a handful of historical references and a poem of 76 hexameter-lines in praise of the church 's founder , Anicia Juliana.The poem , which had been carved in letters 11 centimetres high on the walls of the church itself , was copied in a manuscript of the 10th century and is preserved in full in the Palatine Anthology , a medieval collection of ancient epigrams . |
| 19 | The experience of the early Christians depicted in Acts was without doubt an experience of release , as they came to abandon practices which they found restrictive , and which had been encapsulated in laws which served to keep the Jews apart from the rest of the nations . |
| 20 | Birth weights had been recorded in pounds ( 2.2 lb=1 kg ) and were converted to the nearest gram . |
| 21 | Human rights activists in Cameroon were quoted on April 25 as saying that up to 48 people had been killed in demonstrations and that 58 detained students might also have died . |
| 22 | By contrast , a group representing European human rights organizations which had returned from a 12-day visit to Burundi , maintained the same day that at least 3,000 people had been killed in reprisals by the army and paramilitary groups after the rebellion . |
| 23 | Reports on April 25 had claimed that up to 130 people , mainly Christians , had been killed in riots in Bauchi and other mainly Moslem northern states in places where Shi'ites were demanding the imposition of Moslem law . |
| 24 | Wijeratne said that 35 people had been killed in attacks on July 24-25 on villages near Medawachchiya in the north and Polonnaruwa and Trincomalee in the east . |
| 25 | The rioters , protesting against vegetable shortages , had been killed in clashes with the Revolutionary Guards , who arrested 150 people . |
| 26 | Between January and April it was estimated that 563 government soldiers had been killed in clashes with the guerrillas . |
| 27 | The State of Emergency Governor for the south-eastern region , Unal Erkan , told other regional governors meeting in Batman on June 17 that in the last 40 days 60 soldiers and some 180 civilians had been killed in clashes . |
| 28 | Several of his staff had been injured in clashes with ‘ justly indignant ’ citizens and in Dresden 100 people stormed the local office of the security police on Monday night . |
| 29 | At the sixth round of Premiers ' talks held in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Feb. 19-20 , Premier Yon Hyong Muk of North Korea and Prime Minister Chung Won Shik of South Korea , formally exchanged signed copies of the Agreement on Reconciliation , Non-aggression and Co-operation between the South and the North and the Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula , thus bringing into effect the terms of the two accords which had been reached in talks between the two sides in December 1991 [ see pp. 38659-60 ] . |
| 30 | The defeat of Solarz and of Chester G. Atkins , a Democrat representing Massachusetts , brought the total of incumbents in the House who had been defeated in primaries to 19 , the highest number since 1945 . |