Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We watched the emergence of one moth ; it crept out from its pale yellow papery cocoon , and clung to the stem of grass to which the cocoon had been fixed with silken threads . |
| 5 | Where previous discussions about the Britishness of British films had been coloured by official concerns about national status , and cinema 's role in boosting American economic might , filmmakers increasingly focused on the possibility that good stories might be British stories . |
| 6 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 7 | Grb2 binding of Sos1 in vitro facilitated the rapid mapping of the sites of interaction : the SH3 domains were clear candidates for interaction on the Grb2 protein because mutation in these domains had been detected in genetic screens in worms , and indeed both SH3 domains of Grb2 are required for high-affinity binding . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In rejecting the full Copernican scheme , Tycho had been swayed by biblical considerations and by the failure to detect stellar parallax , which , if Copernicus were right , would entail an enormous gap between the outermost planet and the closest of the stars — a gap that he , and Catholic scholars too , found unacceptable on aesthetic grounds . |
| 10 | At the Police Federation meeting held at the Marton Hotel , Middlesbrough , it was revealed this year 34 juveniles had been bailed for 108 offences in Hartlepool . |
| 11 | In this case we were lucky and the route had been re-equipped with new bolts placed in between the old bolts . |
| 12 | County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket . |
| 13 | By 1723 , ninety-nine cottages had been erected on small pieces of land taken from the wastes . |
| 14 | To allow VIP 's , press and cameramen a view , a double line of ropes had been erected in certain areas to allow the chosen few a front row . |
| 15 | Those undertaking health promotion saw this as evidence that sexual behaviour could be changed and that educational messages about safer sex had been heeded by homosexual men . |
| 16 | Croll managed the day to day administration of the office until he retired in 1881 by which time he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and had been honoured by learned bodies at home and abroad . |
| 17 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 18 | They were not feeling too bad , considering , although Karen , as soon as she had awoken , had been flooded with guilty thoughts — the pangs unmodified , this morning , by champagne or brandy . |
| 19 | In particular , ‘ Britain was bounced into surrenders of sovereignty which she would never have accepted if they had been presented as abstract ideas ’ . |
| 20 | There , as if a curtain had been raised on both sides of the river , suddenly were campsites , fishing and bathing . |
| 21 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 22 | The Milwukee Project broke into the national news , when S. P. Strickland implied , in the July 197 I issue of American Education , that the IQs of children in Heber 's study had been raised by 33 points . |
| 23 | It had been raised in international conferences in the late 1960s but was first officially presented by a Malaysian diplomat in April 1970 at the preparatory meeting of the non-aligned states in Dar-es-Salaam . |
| 24 | The issue of the lack of variety in the Art curriculum , which had been raised in earlier meetings was raised again . |
| 25 | Furthermore , almost all of this debt had been raised from British creditors . |
| 26 | Opened for signature at UNCED in Rio in June 1992 [ see ED 59-60 ] , the biodiversity convention had 160 signatories to date , and had been ratified by six countries ; it thus needed 24 more ratifications in order to come into effect . |
| 27 | As of Oct. 31 , 1989 , it had been ratified by 15 states ( see pp. 35984 ; 36565 for Turkey 's ratification in February 1988 ) . |
| 28 | By the publication of the second edition the scheme had been adopted by 75 libraries , many outside the UK . |
| 29 | Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools . |
| 30 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |