Example sentences of "three had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three had been invited to the States by Greenpeace USA . |
| 2 | Of the first four in the race , three had been born in Jamaica , an amazing achievement for this tiny Caribbean island . |
| 3 | All three had been assigned to Long Kesh Prison near Lisburn to await trial . |
| 4 | Held motionless in zero gravity by the robots with no input of information whatever , the three had been undergoing sensory deprivation for the past hour . |
| 5 | Over the late 1960s , however , these elements began to weaken : the largely once-for-all gains from the first three had been absorbed whilst the fourth was ceasing to hold . |
| 6 | A follow up of the 278 long stay patients discharged between 1985 and 1988 failed to trace only six people , who were presumed to have become vagrants ( three had been vagrants before their admission ) . |
| 7 | All three had been posted in the Penzance district and the post-mark dates were : February 1St , February 22nd , and March 21St , all in 1971 . |
| 8 | By Stage IV all three had been elected without assistance from any other party including Republican Clubs whose elimination did not commence until Stage VI . |
| 9 | The other two had been trying to rescue him when all three had been killed by a single well-placed mortar bomb . |
| 10 | All three had been prominent opposition figures in the period before November 1989 . |
| 11 | All three had been convicted in 1986 of the 1985 murder of the Belau President , Haruo Remeliik but had been freed on appeal [ see pp. 33995-96 ; 35003 ; 35648 ] . |
| 12 | In the UK all Iraqis were from Jan. 19 required to have visas to enter the country , and strict registration procedures were laid down for Iraqis who were in the UK on limited leave ; as of Jan. 29 , out of 101 Iraqis detained since the beginning of the year 42 ( together with seven Palestinians ) were currently in detention awaiting deportation , 21 had left or had been deported and three had been released ; 35 serving members of the Iraqi armed forces were being held in military custody . |
| 13 | All three had been supporters of Zhao Ziyang , the former party general secretary who had been held under house arrest since his dismissal in June 1989 . |
| 14 | All three had been members of the Khmer Rouge administration in the eastern section of Cambodia who had taken up arms against the Pol Pot regime in 1978 . |
| 15 | The three had been sentenced in June for an attack in February on RCD offices in which an elderly security guard was killed [ see pp. 38026 ; 38122 ] . |
| 16 | Three had been dismissed , two had been taken off active duty and the other had been suspended . |
| 17 | In February the authorities had said that the three had been providing unspecified international agencies with information on human rights in Egypt and on public opinion with respect to the economic situation . |
| 18 | Of the 48 Cabinet members , 11 had been investigated for corruption by a military-appointed Asset Verification Committee and three had been found guilty . |
| 19 | He said that one police officer found guilty of abuses had been discharged , three had been punished and five were under investigation . |
| 20 | The three had been arrested by the military on Aug. 17 charged with fly-posting photographs of Aristide . |
| 21 | According to accepted criteria , 11 patients were suitable for liver transplant assessment but only three had been referred to a transplant centre . |
| 22 | But by Friday the three had been reduced to two . |