Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pc Geoff Towle , secretary of the federation 's Derbyshire branch , said the quota system had been operated by senior CID men who did little to conceal it . |
| 2 | First George Escolmbe , an Oxford graduate , had been appointed on 14th September 1691 , and then on 20th January 1693 the Goldsmiths " unanimously agreed that William Dickens shall be appointed schoolmaster of the said town in the room of Timothy Dobson " . |
| 3 | Within months the sign had replaced the customary ‘ thumbs-up ’ and had been adopted throughout beleaguered Europe as a symbol of defiance to Nazism . |
| 4 | A policy of nothing less than ‘ state terrorism ’ had been adopted in Central America , the Middle East , Afghanistan and southern Africa . |
| 5 | Banana exports of $6,500,000 had been lost by early May and the coffee trade had been seriously disrupted . |
| 6 | It had been written on 8 June , and he said quite clearly that it would be his last ‘ until I see you again ’ . |
| 7 | A total of 44,000 Soviet troops plus vehicles and materiel had been withdrawn from eastern Germany between Jan. 1 and May 12 , 1991 ; a further 22,000 service personnel left in June . |
| 8 | When Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tesfaye Dinka visited the Soviet Union on March 7 , the Soviet side laid particular emphasis on promoting talks on peace and national reconciliation , while on March 21 the Western press reported comments by the Soviet ambassador in Sudan , that all Soviet military advisers had been withdrawn by late February to Addis Ababa or back to the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | All three had been assigned to Long Kesh Prison near Lisburn to await trial . |
| 11 | As we have seen , the prestigious ultra-Rightist politician , José Calvo Sotelo , had been assassinated on 13 July . |
| 12 | The elections had been called in early October [ see p. 37724 ] after President Wojciech Jaruzelski , the last remaining communist head of state in eastern Europe except for that of Albania , had agreed to resign just over a year into his six-year term and to transfer power to a freely elected head of state . |
| 13 | Andronikos had been digging in northern Greece for some 25 years when he discovered a vault in one of the narrow streets in the village of Virghina , west of Salonika . |
| 14 | It was also implied that these illegal forces had been deployed in western Kenya where they were being used to foment ethnic violence [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 15 | The first amphibious raid — three officers landing between Boulogne and Etaples — had been mounted on 2–3 June by MIR with informal contacts in the Royal Navy , who provided a trawler . |
| 16 | Depos had been formed in late May by two opposition parliamentary parties — the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) and the Democratic Party ( DS ) — and the Serbian Liberal Party and the New Democracy-Movement for Serbia . |
| 17 | The UUUC had been formed in early December to bring together Westite Unionists , Vanguard Unionists and Democratic Unionists for electioneering and propaganda purposes . |
| 18 | The election results had been announced on 6 March . |
| 19 | The four persons against whom the murder charges had been announced on 6th January 1973 had likewise been travelling in a motor car in which an unlicensed pistol had been found . |
| 20 | The decision to resume lending had been announced in early October [ see p. 39144 ] . |
| 21 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 22 | There were one or two guests that had been invited to both Breasbrough parties . |
| 23 | The Atlantic crossing was over by 12 July and the Orynthia had arrived in Demerara , a one-time Dutch settlement which had been absorbed into British Guiana in 1831 . |
| 24 | I still number some of them as personal friends all these years later , but at the time what struck me was their unbelievable competence and sheer quality compared with the wretchedly small scope they had been given in prewar Britain . |
| 25 | No part of it had been exercised at 31st March 1991 . |
| 26 | The German defences north of South Vaagsö had been bombed by three Blenheims an hour or so earlier , no doubt adding to the confusion at the German 181 Division 's headquarters for they had no clear picture of events and a patrol sent down from the northern defences lost two men at the road-block . |
| 27 | In May 1945 Yugoslav partisans had been spreading through Allied-occupied Austria , trying to annexe much of it to their own country . |
| 28 | The " Open Skies " policy had been proposed by the United States in December 1989 [ see pp. 37112 ] , and test flights had been made in eastern Europe [ see p. 37201 ] , but talks on its implementation had effectively been suspended in May 1990 after Soviet expressions of reservations over militarily sensitive areas [ see pp. 37267 ; 38255 ] and they had been reconvened only on Sept. 9 , 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] . |
| 29 | Although much had been achieved by 1974 Barrett argued that ‘ the best is yet to be ’ ( see also chapter 10 , p. 211 ) . |
| 30 | Ernst Verdieu , the Minister of Social Affairs , and Smark Michel , the Trade and Industry Minister were dismissed on June 14 and replaced respectively by Myrtho Céleston and Jean François Chamblain ; the Justice Minister , Bayard Vincent , had been dismissed in late May and replaced by Karl Auguste . |