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

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1 Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The other features , the mouth , the ears , and especially the nose , had been blurred in some fashion by the surgeon 's knife .
5 The refugees also claimed that water and electricity supplies had been cut in some parts of Kuwait City but not in others .
6 He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned .
7 Premium rises had been achieved in some areas , but other sectors had been very competitive .
8 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 .
9 ( 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 ? )
10 Coloni received a message to say his mother had been injured in some sort of political disturbance in Valparaíso , so instead of cooking for us , he decided to go home .
11 It came from Tony Morrell , the Hartlepool-based athlete who has been preferred to Cram in the 1500 metres and whose fitness had been queried in some quarters .
12 He sounded embarrassed , as though he had been caught in some misdemeanour .
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