Example sentences of "had been [verb] in [adj] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The issue of the lack of variety in the Art curriculum , which had been raised in earlier meetings was raised again . |
| 9 | A policy of nothing less than ‘ state terrorism ’ had been adopted in Central America , the Middle East , Afghanistan and southern Africa . |
| 10 | Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ If it had been built in one go , ’ he claimed , demonstrating with a model and bucket of clay , ‘ it would have fallen over . ’ |
| 14 | The Retreat had been built in neo-classical style : twelve marble pillars rising to support a dome that called for decoration , but had none . |
| 15 | Every town of importance possessed its theatre most of which had been built in Hellenistic times often carved out of the hillside but fronted by a stage building and proscenium platform . |
| 16 | He said that last year £30,000 worth of produce had been lost in similar incidents and urged the Prime Minister to give an assurance that he would approach the French government to ensure that the culprits were brought to justice and that compensation was paid to all the British firms which had lost cash . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |
| 21 | It had been engaged in regular combat with the Red Army , as part of German forces . |
| 22 | The investigation found no evidence that the then Democratic candidate had been engaged in illegal activities during a trip to Moscow in 1969–70 . |
| 23 | it is clear from the statement of claim that the er plaintiffs retained the defendants from about the ninth of September to act in relation to the purchase of this wine bar which was then known as er the plaintiffs were obtaining finance from the National Westminster Bank in order to purchase this business and the plaintiff Mr had been engaged in long standing discussions with his bank from the earlier part of nineteen eighty five with a view to er agreeing financing facilities for the purchase of the various opportunities that preven present themselves and er he will say and that he makes clear in his witness statement erm that he certainly had understood that from these negotiations the National Westminster Bank were prepared to provide the financing that he required to run this business . |
| 24 | It was reported that Porfirio Muñoz Ledo , " number two " in the PRD , had been engaged in recent talks with the Minister for the Government , Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios , on preparations for the December municipal elections in Michoacán . |
| 25 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 26 | The result meant that both parties failed to capitalise on the widespread disaffection with the mainstream parties and in particular with the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) which had been discovered in recent months to have been involved in a number of scandals . |
| 27 | The Soviet authorities on April 13 finally admitted Soviet responsibility for the massacre in 1940 of around 15,000 Polish Army officers , including over 4,000 whose remains had been discovered in mass graves in Katyn forest near the Soviet city of Smolensk . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However , if the logo were used by a computer bureau , although there may be no infringement of trade mark ( unless the Apple logo had been registered in miscellaneous services class ) , there would probably be an action in passing-off because many people might think that the computer bureau was somehow connected with the computer company . |
| 30 | 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 . |