Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] [vb pp] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Factories which had been switched from military production because of cuts in defence spending were instructed to meet these needs , and it was decided to supplement the 36,000 Interior Ministry troops by diverting new conscripts from Army work . |
| 2 | All of that would have been well known to the Ephesians , who had been converted from false gods who had no glory , to be followers of the one true God whose glory had been demonstrated in the splendour , the brightness and the beauty of the Saviour . |
| 3 | The figure included almost 1,000,000 overseas federal workers , including military personnel and their dependents , who had been excluded from previous censuses . |
| 4 | The 16 , who had been identified from seized television news videotape , included Hankuk student chairman Chong Won Taek , who was reported to have gone into hiding . |
| 5 | Choummali Saignakong , who had been promoted from alternate to full politburo membership at the fifth congress , replaced Khamtay as Minister of National Defence . |
| 6 | President Mobutu Sese Seko signed a decree on Feb. 10 granting amnesty to Zaïrean exiles who had been accused of threatening state security through speech , writing or in any other manner ; it also covered those who had been removed from official posts or banned by the government from involvement in civic and political life . |
| 7 | Three people who had been removed from high-ranking positions within the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) in the aftermath of the June 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " [ see pp. 36720-22 ] were partly rehabilitated in early June . |
| 8 | Minyip was a wild mare who had been rescued from near starvation by a kind lady . |
| 9 | In an earlier chapter I noted that a study of poor people 's movements in the US concluded that such influence as they had was derived from mass protests rather than from participation in electoral politics ; and a study of the economic progress of black Americans in the late 1970s argued that it was ‘ under the impetus of the civil rights movement and the ghetto revolts of the sixties , [ that ] blacks gained access to new employment opportunities in business , government , the media , and high paying jobs in the skilled crafts ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | The jaw tightened till it looked as if it had been carved from golden marble . |
| 11 | It had been exhumed from Locked Safe no. 5 where it usually stood between Pranks of Priapus and The Grecian Way of Love . |
| 12 | There is a story that Old Dobbin , even after he had been retired from active fire service , would still , by force of habit and for the excitement of it , try to get out of his stable to find his place between the fire-engine shafts whenever the alarm rang . |
| 13 | He had been promoted from general secretary to " president " of the LPRP at the party 's fifth congress the previous April [ see p. 38150 ] . |
| 14 | In June Hu Qili , Rui Xingwen and Yan Minfu ( all of whom had been removed from high-ranking posts in the aftermath of the June 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " ) were appointed to vice-ministerial posts [ see p. 38290 ] . |
| 15 | I spoke to Sikh and Hindu children in Southall and none of them had been withdrawn from religious education lessons . |