Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 2 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 3 | Captain Glen had recently reported that the university had been retaken with little opposition , and Mortimer had immediately set off . |
| 4 | It was a dramatic gesture , a revelation ; it put him in a position of power , if only for a moment , but he liked that position and his primacy had been denied in that group of irreverents . |
| 5 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 6 | P cepacia was not recovered from the external surface of the spirometer handpiece , or from the arms of a wooden chair that had been grasped by each patient during spirometry . |
| 7 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 8 | It had been realised by this time that , even if polythene did not fit into the then accepted mould for plastics , which tended to be glassy substances like polystyrene and Perspex , it might still be useful . |
| 9 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 10 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 11 | There , as if a curtain had been raised on both sides of the river , suddenly were campsites , fishing and bathing . |
| 12 | Jackie Stewart also announced that the record sum of £200,000 had been raised by this year 's Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge . |
| 13 | Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools . |
| 14 | A section of runway had been cordoned off that afternoon by the remaining twenty policemen who had strict orders not to allow anyone through without an official pass . |
| 15 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 16 | It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant . |
| 17 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 18 | In each case the siblings concerned had been separated from each other when they were babies . |
| 19 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 20 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 21 | At least by 1960 it had been recognised in this jurisdiction that it connotes a duty not to injure one 's neighbour by want of reasonable care . |
| 22 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 23 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |
| 24 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 25 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 26 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 27 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 28 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 29 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 30 | The 1975 Algiers agreement had been necessitated by several factors : Iraqi charges of Iranian moral and material support for Kurdish insurgents ; widespread Arab resentment ( which Iraq sought to champion ) of Iran 's seizure of the three islands down the Gulf with apparent British collusion in 1971 ; friction over the Shatt al-Arab concerning both frontier demarcation and responsibility for river traffic ; and Iraq 's 1972 treaty of friendship with the USSR , a neighbour regarded by Iran with some disquiet . |