Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others , however , saw the N.D.D.S. in a different light and role , and soon there was internal strife within the Society which tore it asunder in 1885 after a general meeting had been held in London without Paul 's knowledge . |
| 2 | A clear run of four hundred yards was obtained after a few holes had been filled in . |
| 3 | In February 1990 an initiative group for the creation of a Russian CP had been set up in Leningrad . |
| 4 | No such brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration had been seen in the Soviet Union since at least the early 1960s , strengthening rumours that the action , directed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs rather than by Georgian officials , might have been covertly encouraged by Kremlin conservatives intent on discrediting Gorbachev and the policy of perestroika . |
| 5 | This led Tolstoy ( in the minister and the massacres ) to the misconception that a subsequent instruction concerning the definition of a Soviet citizen had been issued on 6 May . |
| 6 | He also revealed that some explosive devices of a similar type had been recovered since September 1991 . |
| 7 | THREE generations of a family found murdered in the kitchen of a terraced house had been the victims of a horrendous and frenzied attack , police said yesterday . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend may remember that , in 1980 , a quarter of a million people had been waiting for more than two months for telephones to be connected . |
| 9 | During the interwar years there had been several proposals for something that would go beyond this to involve governments , and in 1938 the idea of a Nordic Council had been proposed by Denmark . |
| 10 | The sense of being part of a general flux had been lost for years . |
| 11 | The autumn 1989 session of the National Assembly discussed the proposals for a new Constitution to replace the provisional Constitution of 1968 [ see p. 23232 ] , and President Saddam Hussein announced on Jan. 31 , 1990 , that the draft of a new Constitution had been completed by the Council of Ministers . |
| 12 | Further , many of the decisions reached at Versailles ( CORE , p. 2 ) disappointed Americans , whose expectations of a fair peace had been raised by Wilson himself . |
| 13 | An extraordinary congress of the ruling party , the communist Partido Africano da Indepêndencia de Cabo Verde ( PAICV ) , was called for the latter part of 1990 , after the introduction of a multiparty system had been agreed in principle by the national council — the party 's policy-making body between congresses . |
| 14 | The Court was entitled to see whether all the conditions necessary to the formation of a proper contract had been satisfied . |
| 15 | Appeasement did not work , because nothing short of a united Ireland had been their ‘ real ’ ambition from the start . |
| 16 | In response , President Jaruzelski of Poland declared that while he approved in principle the removal of Soviet forces from Poland , this should be deferred until agreement on a new European security system had been reached and specifically until the position of a united Germany had been clarified . |
| 17 | After the idea of a dead-letter drop had been made clear to Postelnicu with some difficulty , the new minister took the intelligence officer to his bathroom and asked if the lavatory 's water-cistern could be used as a letter drop . |
| 18 | He was struck by the way in which Muni had depicted the suffering , the bewilderment , and the anger of a simple man , by the way in which the atmosphere and pressures of a strike-bound community had been created , and above all by the reality of the violence , which was a thing ‘ that shrieks along a man 's nerves and settles in his stomach ’ . |
| 19 | The overtones of a heavy relationship had been everywhere that night at Ib 's Club . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the idea of a National Government had been in the air for some time before its actual formation . |
| 21 | Quadrats of a large scale had been used before to determine the precise range of various species , but Clements and Pound marked off small areas , often only a metre square , so that every plant of every species could be identified . |
| 22 | The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed . |
| 23 | Peace Alliance supporters , and the Communists in particular were annoyed that the opportunity for a joint candidature had been lost . |
| 24 | It had jeopardized the government coalition , because the Independent Smallholders ' Party ( FKgP ) for a long time had been unwilling to make concessions which compromised the commitment in its electoral programme to full restitution [ see p. 37790 ; 37975 ] . |
| 25 | Churchill 's proposal made at The Hague for a European Assembly had been taken up with vigour by the newly formed European Movement . |
| 26 | Tamar thought no more about this conversation and did not ask Stephen whether his quest for a new groom had been successful . |
| 27 | The need for a wider focus had been signalled five years earlier when the merger of the Howard Association and the prison Reform League resulted in the establishment of the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 28 | Although some reports suggested that the need for a smaller force had been dictated by plans to reduce NATO forces by up to 30 per cent by the mid-1990s , a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting said that defence spending in real terms " should not be expected to reduce substantially in the near term " . |
| 29 | The opportunity for a negotiated peace had been lost — and with it the hope that anything good might come out of the Great War . |
| 30 | Saudi Arabian support for a negotiated settlement had been confirmed by the UN Secretary-General , Javier Péréz de Cuéllar , in Jeddah on Sept. 14 . |