Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand .
2 Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The other features , the mouth , the ears , and especially the nose , had been blurred in some fashion by the surgeon 's knife .
9 The refugees also claimed that water and electricity supplies had been cut in some parts of Kuwait City but not in others .
10 Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange :
11 Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune .
12 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 ) .
13 They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself .
14 He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned .
15 When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’
16 Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another .
17 Airbus Industrie rejected any suggestion that the aircraft itself was to blame , but its sophisticated " fly by wire " computer system had been criticized by some experts as over-complicated , and Indian Airlines staff complained that pilots and maintenance crew had received insufficient training on the Airbus .
18 This placed an unfortunate obstacle in the path of the police who might otherwise , simply on the grounds of suspicion , make a ‘ clean sweep ’ of all known criminals — a policy that had been advocated for some years by Matthew Davenport Hill , the Recorder of Birmingham — as a sure means to guarantee the safety of the streets .
19 Maurin had been involved to some degree in everything that had happened .
20 The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions .
21 Although the wording indicates that this had given rise to " considerable discussion " , implying that these methods had been questioned by some present , and the phrase " it was unwise to make any further interpretation " implies that those methods should not be spelled out too explicitly , the clear conclusion of the conference was that the policy being followed by 5 Corps should be given full backing .
22 Premium rises had been achieved in some areas , but other sectors had been very competitive .
23 Here we know that the enclosure of the open fields began in the 1570s , and had been completed by some date in the seventeenth century .
24 At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow .
25 There is little doubt also that within the DES the binary solution had been canvassed for some time , and throughout the life of the Robbins Committee interest in it was being shown in the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes and elsewhere .
26 We had been affianced for some weeks . ’
27 All of his staff had been damaged in some way , but for those who were shy , or clever enough to hide themselves from Lennon 's advance .
28 ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? )
29 He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low .
30 And the factory hours and rugby support which militated against soccer in Leeds had been challenged with some success from 1912 to 1914 .
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