Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [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 | Captain Glen had recently reported that the university had been retaken with little opposition , and Mortimer had immediately set off . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Normally used as a storeroom-cum-gallery , it had been cleared of extraneous clutter . |
| 8 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By one year , 12 recurrences had been diagnosed by ultrasonagraphy but only seven had been detected by oral cholecystectography . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Jackie Stewart also announced that the record sum of £200,000 had been raised by this year 's Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was in Italy and read in the paper that Paul Van Kempen had been appointed as General Music Director in Aachen . |
| 17 | A new head of History had been appointed for next term to release the pastoral coordinator from a ‘ caretaker ’ role as head of History , a scale 3 second in department for English had been appointed by promoting an existing member of the department and an early retirement application had been granted . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Social Charter , which had been adopted by 11 member countries in December 1989 [ see p. 37132 ] , continued to draw much criticism from the UK during this period , particularly with regard to the rights of employees to consultation in the workplace . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In each case the siblings concerned had been separated from each other when they were babies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In their minds it had been prefaced with romantic dialogue and protestations of love . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 27 | Query had been built on hard fact and delivered hard-hitting articles . |
| 28 | ‘ If it had been built in one go , ’ he claimed , demonstrating with a model and bucket of clay , ‘ it would have fallen over . ’ |
| 29 | The Retreat had been built in neo-classical style : twelve marble pillars rising to support a dome that called for decoration , but had none . |
| 30 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |