Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , all attacks by the German centre , west of Verdun and at Nancy , had been halted with heavy loss . |
| 2 | But when the first baiter led his teams on to an unploughed field he did not have to trouble his head about the width of the stetches : that had been fixed by long usage and probably appeared to him then as unalterable an aspect of the landscape as the roads and the hedges . |
| 3 | This change was marked by the arrival on 1 June of Air Commodore Hugh Pughe Lloyd , M.C. , D.F.C. , to take over as A.O.C. from A.V.M. Maynard , A.F.C. Newly-promoted from the rank of Group Captain , Lloyd had been serving as Senior Air Staff Officer with No.2 Group of Bomber Command . |
| 4 | A liaison had been struck with Spanish designer Juan de la Cierva for G & J Weir to licence build his autogiros . |
| 5 | When its near discordant notes gave way to Rooster and the driving beat of early Rolling Stones music , it was as if the the group and the whole theatre had been struck by benign lightening . |
| 6 | Normally used as a storeroom-cum-gallery , it had been cleared of extraneous clutter . |
| 7 | By one year , 12 recurrences had been diagnosed by ultrasonagraphy but only seven had been detected by oral cholecystectography . |
| 8 | On Assembly Sunday , the one just after Christian Aid Week , the visiting preacher , Rev. Stewart Matthew , told us that the day before , under the dripping trees of Holyrood , he had met a young man who had told him with pride and joy that over £13,000 had been raised for Christian Aid at his church . |
| 9 | Compared to this Packard-Merlin , the Mk III had been raised in immaculate condition and its rocker covers still gleam with the original black paintwork . |
| 10 | I was in Italy and read in the paper that Paul Van Kempen had been appointed as General Music Director in Aachen . |
| 11 | The budget was the first to be based on President Hashemi Rafsanjani 's development plan for 1989-93 , which had been adopted after considerable debate at the end of January 1990 . |
| 12 | She had been indicted on numerous corruption charges since her return to the Philippines , as the government continued to attempt to recover some of the millions of dollars which she and her husband allegedly looted from the country during their years in power . |
| 13 | In their minds it had been prefaced with romantic dialogue and protestations of love . |
| 14 | Query had been built on hard fact and delivered hard-hitting articles . |
| 15 | The Retreat had been built in neo-classical style : twelve marble pillars rising to support a dome that called for decoration , but had none . |
| 16 | Inside were three fat volumes of Mark Twain tied together with gold tape and a card with Complemento de Librerío Universal on which had been written in green ink primera edición . |
| 17 | US Treasury Under-Secretary David Mulford , who chaired the meeting , said afterwards that a total of $14,300 million had been pledged in financial support for 1990 and 1991 . |
| 18 | Political unrest and opposition-organized strikes in April had been provoked by economic hardship , for which the opposition had blamed the Nepali Congress Party . |
| 19 | Malcolm had been told to expect a prison sentence , but the judge took pity on him , saying that he had been provoked by racial abuse from drunken louts . |
| 20 | I spoke to Sikh and Hindu children in Southall and none of them had been withdrawn from religious education lessons . |
| 21 | The centralizing mission of the old monarchy had been limited by provincial privilege . |
| 22 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 23 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 24 | Nofziger , who had headed the White House Office of Political Affairs in 1981-82 , had been convicted of illegal lobbying for the Wedtech Corp. within a year of leaving office , fined $30,000 and sentenced to 90 days in prison [ see p. 36018 ] . |
| 25 | At last year 's Chelsea Flower Show , an RHS gold medal was awarded to a display including wild plants whose exhibitor had been convicted of illegal import of wild orchids . |
| 26 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 27 | Next day the Germans found that the one-time schoolmaster and lieutenant of 2 Commando Philip Walton , and maybe one of the corporals from Pritchard 's squad , had laid charges on the bridge , but this brave effort had been foiled by lethal fire at close range . |
| 28 | In an interview published in three West European newspapers on Dec. 14 , Willy Brandt , the former West German Chancellor who was in Moscow immediately before Honecker was deposed , maintained that a " bloodbath " had been prevented by Soviet Army officers , working within the senior echelons of the East German National People 's Army ( NVA ) . |
| 29 | She sat back , visualising the scene as the mud in the sample had been examined by remote control , and the virus isolated . |
| 30 | Both sides rejected suggestions that the agreement had been influenced by Iranian assistance in securing the release of two US hostages in Lebanon in April [ see p. 37391 ] . |