Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | By last night , six oil-soaked birds had been found and taken to an RSPCA shelter at Fareham , Hampshire . |
| 2 | His funeral was as well orchestrated as his political meetings had been . |
| 3 | By 1981 the artist was using photographic imagery as if it was purely graphic material , as if the literal meanings had been dissolved in a solution of ideas and metaphors — except that the half-tone dots from newsprint were emphatically part of the image . |
| 4 | The geography of fifteenth-century palaces had been relatively simple : there was a Great Hall , where ceremonious and public appearances were made , and the Chamber where the King withdrew and where only a few could follow him . |
| 5 | The independent commission established by the government to investigate and audit funds and property of former East German parties and political groups had been hindered in its work by shortage of staff and lack of co-operation from the affected organizations . |
| 6 | A prominent feature was the surviving aggregates of endocrine cells marking the former position of glandular bases where colonic crypts had been destroyed ( Fig 2B ) , a feature characteristically seen in graft v host disease . |
| 7 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 8 | After several years during which agricultural surpluses had been substantially reduced , they had risen by the end of 1990 and stood at : cereals — 18,000,000 tonnes ; beef — 700,000 tonnes ; butter — 278,000 tonnes ; skimmed milk powder — 335,000 tonnes ; wine — 8,000,000 hectolitres ; and tobacco — 30,000 tonnes . |
| 9 | Government-to-government contacts had been restarted in early December with the convening in Beijing of consultations on cultural exchanges . |
| 10 | I learnt — without making myself appear too inquisitive — that the Guérigny roots struck deep into la Sologne , a land whose finest hours had been in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 11 | A prize of 10,000 Spanish coins had been promised to the first man to see land and he even claimed this . |
| 12 | By March 1900 , 190,000 copies had been sold in England and there were special Welsh and American editions . |
| 13 | Spanish values had been noble . |
| 14 | The review , which covered 142 of the world 's 178 countries showed that in 1991 , 65 countries still held prisoners of conscience , while the use of " disappearance " as a tactic for eliminating political opponents had been substantiated in 26 countries . |
| 15 | And that was the traditional sort of way in Galashiels , it was rather more like the rural areas than what the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow are , the toilets were just outside where the old dry toilets had been . |
| 16 | About 300 political prisoners had been deported from Lisbon to Madeira in the autumn and winter of 1930 , and they were to be important in the trouble which followed . |
| 17 | A declassified message from the United States embassy in Rangoon dated Aug. 22 , 1989 , alleged that political prisoners had been tortured with burning cigarettes and electric shocks and that in some cases detainees had been tortured to death . |
| 18 | ( On July 31 Diestel announced that the freedom of 33,000 East German political prisoners had been brought by West Germany since 1964 initially at a price of around DM40,000 each and since the late 1970s at a price of DM95,847 . ) |
| 19 | The new regime in Chad sought his extradition in the light of evidence that over 300 political prisoners had been executed , allegedly on his orders , in Ndjaména prisons on Dec. 1 . |
| 20 | Bush said that all five of the conditions had already been met , and that the USA accepted the argument of the Pretoria regime that all " true " political prisoners had been released [ see p. 38324 ] . |
| 21 | Although the ANC at its national conference earlier in the month had agreed to the phased lifting of sanctions [ see p. 38324 ] , the organization considered that the step was premature since two of the conditions stipulated in the CAAA had not been fully met — first , the political violence in the country was not conducive to a " climate for free political activity " , and second , the ANC disputed the US view that all political prisoners had been released . |
| 22 | Although , the Ministry of Correctional Services claimed that all political prisoners had been released , at least three acknowledged political prisoners were freed in the days following the launch of the campaign . |
| 23 | By the end of May more than 100 of an estimated 2,000 political prisoners had been released . |
| 24 | Earlier reports had said that by the end of May more than 100 of an estimated 2,000 political prisoners had been freed [ see p. 38913 ] . |
| 25 | Last year , nearly £300 had been collected for the Spanish Fund , and within the space of a month , including Xmas no less than three large indoor meetings had been held , of which one was the Town Hall meeting at which one of the largest collections ever received at a Labour meeting in Leeds was taken up . |
| 26 | At least the Spanish authorities had been conducting a professional search . |
| 27 | Gross lending for education had totalled $2,200 million , while funds for population , health and nutritional projects had been $1,570 million . |
| 28 | In addition to his position as one of the country 's leading black politicians , Young was also a renowned liberal whose political views had been shaped through his involvement in the civil rights movement . |
| 29 | Creation stories from eight cultures had been distinguished — Egyptian , Norse , African , Oceanic , Greek , Mexican , Indian and the Genesis account — and these could be divided amongst the eight groups very happily , with the addition of timetabled periods of art and music-drama for double groups , in which basic techniques were linked to suitable themes ( for instance , shrine-building , rain-making ceremonies ) . |
| 30 | Addressing a special session of the Cortes ( parliament ) on Feb. 1 , Alfonso Guerra , who at no time condoned his brother 's alleged activities , acknowledged that Juan had used the government office but said that this was because he was helping him as deputy secretary of the PSOE , and he denied that private activities had been carried out in the office in his presence or with his knowledge . |