Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as I could now see , a vast area behind the shops had been cleared of housing and turned into an enormous shopping centre . |
| 2 | That afternoon the floor of the shrine had been freshly plastered with mud and cow-dung and was smooth and clean , and the hearth had been cleared of its old ash . |
| 3 | The night seemed light , the moon was scudding between white clouds , showing up the white world beyond the drive that had been cleared of snow . |
| 4 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 5 | This room had been cleared of all but two of the great packages . |
| 6 | When the meal was over and the tables had been cleared of everything except the wine and the cups , one of the Altun stood up . |
| 7 | The concrete paths had been cleared of snow and ice . |
| 8 | Normally used as a storeroom-cum-gallery , it had been cleared of extraneous clutter . |
| 9 | He took the tube from a drawer , and when the desk-top had been cleared of papers the plans were spread open . |
| 10 | It had been cleared of papers ; the typewriter was covered and the chair pushed firmly into place . |
| 11 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 12 | Lord Cousfield said that although McLaren had been cleared of the most serious charge , the court always regarded the criminal use of firearms as a serious matter |
| 13 | The older houses had been built of a homely and native brown stock brick , and the farm buildings largely of wood . |
| 14 | Constructed in a hexagon shape , it had been built of logs , now darkened with age . |
| 15 | Two senior policemen were suspended after the Court of Appeal decided that a junior colleague had been convicted of robbery on fabricated evidence . |
| 16 | By a curious twist of fate Kuzmitch later defected to the CIA by which time Blake had been convicted of spying , one of the charges being that he contravened the Official Secrets Act in November 1951 while still in captivity . |
| 17 | It was later revealed that Mr Argles had employed a boy who had been convicted of offences against young children . |
| 18 | His fate and whereabouts remained unknown until June 1991 , when the Kuwait authorities informed his family that he had been convicted of ‘ collaboration ’ and sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | NICK Moore had been convicted of two other building societies in Derby in the same month . |
| 20 | People who had been convicted of criminal offences , including drunkenness , or people who had habitually failed to work , were not to be supported from state resources . |
| 21 | At the time of my visit about half the men had been convicted of heterosexual offences , mostly rape ; about a quarter for offences against children and about a quarter were the ‘ grasses ’ or informers . |
| 22 | Indeed , it emerged that he had been convicted of killing the child of a former girlfriend and had assaulted the defendant and her 3-year-old daughter . |
| 23 | William Joyce had been convicted of treason on the grand scale . |
| 24 | In Berry ( No. 2 ) , the applicant , B , had been convicted of making an explosive in circumstances giving rise to the reasonable suspicion that he was not making it for a lawful object . |
| 25 | The Swedish government sought the extradition of the applicant to face trial for drug trafficking offences in respect of which P. , an alleged accomplice who had been convicted of similar offences , had made a statement to the Swedish court implicating the applicant . |
| 26 | In Reg. v. Miles ( 1890 ) 24 Q.B.D. 423 it was held that a person who had been convicted of an assault by a court of summary jurisdiction , but had been discharged , without any sentence of fine or imprisonment , on giving security to be of good behaviour , could not afterwards be convicted on an indictment for the same assault . |
| 27 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 28 | Meanwhile on Jan. 9 the Supreme Court ordered a retrial of 10 members of the opposition Liberia Unification Party who in October 1988 had been convicted of plotting against the Doe regime [ see p. 36610 ] . |
| 29 | The South Korean government announced an amnesty on Feb. 26 under which it would release 22 " leftists " , most of whom had been convicted of spying for North Korea , and 1,089 other prisoners . |
| 30 | Nofziger , who had headed the White House Office of Political Affairs in 1981-82 , had been convicted of illegal lobbying for the Wedtech Corp. within a year of leaving office , fined $30,000 and sentenced to 90 days in prison [ see p. 36018 ] . |