Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] [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 | Captain Glen had recently reported that the university had been retaken with little opposition , and Mortimer had immediately set off . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 9 | There , as if a curtain had been raised on both sides of the river , suddenly were campsites , fishing and bathing . |
| 10 | Jackie Stewart also announced that the record sum of £200,000 had been raised by this year 's Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge . |
| 11 | Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 16 | In each case the siblings concerned had been separated from each other when they were babies . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 21 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |
| 22 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 26 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 27 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 28 | But the water company spokesman said letters had been sent to all tenants letting them know what was happening . |
| 29 | The notice of payment of tax as determined by the General Commissioners had been sent to this address . |
| 30 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |