Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captain Glen had recently reported that the university had been retaken with little opposition , and Mortimer had immediately set off . |
| 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 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 7 | Jackie Stewart also announced that the record sum of £200,000 had been raised by this year 's Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In each case the siblings concerned had been separated from each other when they were babies . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 13 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |
| 14 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 17 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 18 | The notice of payment of tax as determined by the General Commissioners had been sent to this address . |
| 19 | He had been called from this office to so many bodies , in such different settings , such different states of dissolution , old , young , pathetic , horrifying , having in common only the one fact , that they were violently dead and by another 's hand . |
| 20 | Um she looked for um she looked at er a survey of two thousand odd adults that had been conducted in this country . |
| 21 | The other features , the mouth , the ears , and especially the nose , had been blurred in some fashion by the surgeon 's knife . |
| 22 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 23 | Indeed , after the lord pope had heard sufficient arguments from both parties , he decreed with the authority of the apostolic see that the same archbishop should demolish the church at his own expense , revoking completely everything that had been done in this matter . |
| 24 | Ever since his return to power in 1958 , his foreign policy had been pointed in that direction : his development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and his growing estrangement from NATO are part of that general background against which his treatment of the EEC in 1965 must be understood . |
| 25 | Quite recently the King of France and the King 's own sister , Queen Margaret of Scotland , had been obliged in this way ; but now Queen Catherine 's uncle , the German Emperor Charles V , held the Pope virtually prisoner in Rome and had compelled him not to agree to Henry 's divorce . |
| 26 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 27 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 28 | ‘ We were contacted last Friday by a woman who had been asked by this man to make a donation to War on Want . |
| 29 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 30 | In the drama departments there was a general welcome for the move away from written papers , which had been seen by many drama specialists as a cause of confusion between drama and English literature , with students often finding it difficult to respond to the change in emphasis towards a set text that this involved . |