Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , whereas filmmaking technique had been advancing in America , things had almost stood still in Britain . |
| 2 | Eventually we found that the water cooling intakes had been put too near the waterline and were sucking air as the boat rolled . |
| 3 | A joint Russian , Moldovan and Dnestr peacekeeping force had been deployed on July 29 to halt the fighting after an agreement signed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his Moldovan counterpart Mircea Snegur over the future status of the Dnestr region [ for July agreement see p. 39019 ] . |
| 4 | Threats to their security from absconding members , and interfering snoopers had been dealt with satisfactorily . |
| 5 | Becoming editor had been the greatest day of his life , and now these people were telling him that his paper was apolitical and had a lack of analysis and editorialization . |
| 6 | Accordingly when , in 1811 , the shearmen of the West Riding , locally known as " croppers " , who had been in regular and supportive contact with the Wiltshire shearmen throughout their struggle , faced the introduction of machinery in their turn , the " peaceful " option of petitioning parliament had been foreclosed . |
| 7 | During the year the Nikkei Average index had failed to rise above the 26,000 mark , compared with some 39,000 at the end of 1989 , and operating revenues had been down by 23 per cent during the six months to September . |
| 8 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 9 | Previously , Conventions regulating contracts had been concerned with only one contractual relationship , for example , the relationship between shipper and carrier or between seller and buyer . |
| 10 | She woke early on the morning of July 29 , 1981 which is not surprising as her room overlooked the Mall where the singing , chattering crowds had been gathering for days . |
| 11 | Reports that Tajikistan was selling uranium had been denied on Jan. 31 in an official statement from Tajikistan 's Foreign Ministry . |
| 12 | The practice of selling honours had been increasing under all governments and it was becoming more marked in both parties . |
| 13 | The law governing corners had been amended earlier in the year to allow such goals . |
| 14 | According to the Middle East Economic Digest of July 26 , spiralling prices had been aggravated by an effective devaluation of the rial in January . |
| 15 | All three of the speakers presenting papers had been involved in this review and discussed different aspects in their contributions . |
| 16 | Many indicators suggested that reform was too dangerous to be allowed to continue and that the tsar 's capacity for embracing change had been exhausted . |
| 17 | This particular year , however , due to popular demand , we had to run a ‘ second sitting ’ during the summer term , after teaching practice had been completed . |
| 18 | Getting work ticked was my main motivation . |
| 19 | Although breechloading weapons had been generally adopted , the small-bore rifle , the machine-gun , and the quick-firing fieldgun had not yet altered military thinking ; they had only increased the range at which fighting would take place . |
| 20 | During this winter approximately two hundred other patients requiring amputations had been carried or hauled in sledges to other hospitals in central Bosnia . |
| 21 | Considerable skill in getting plants established was also required — it is only too easy for gaps to appear , or for an odd man out in flower colour to pop up , as anyone who has ever tried to grow a complete row of vegetables or lay out a bedding plan , will know . |
| 22 | After the first-round vote , it was reported that no candidate put up by the 30 parties supporting Milongo had been elected . |
| 23 | The staff from the Abingdon Sorting Office had been due to resume their duties this afternoon at the end of the county-wide dispute , but the workers there refused to go back after part of an agreement with managers was altered . |
| 24 | The staff from the Abingdon Sorting Office had been due to resume their duties this afternoon at the end of the county-wide dispute , but the workers refused to go back after part of an agreement with managers was altered . |
| 25 | It is likely that many of the remaining 13 cases could also have been resolved if focusing preferences had been applied weakly when appropriate ; in these cases , the discourse focus is typically a plausible referent , but is less plausible than one of the intrasentential candidates . |
| 26 | US AGENTS voiced disappointment yesterday that only seven members of a Texas religious cult left their barricaded compound on Sunday , saying authorities had been led to believe a significantly greater number would emerge . |
| 27 | In the Imperial apartments , running water had been installed , but this was the only place where it was to be found and all the other rooms were still dependent on the ministrations of servants . |
| 28 | Spending levels had been already set by democratically agreed initiatives ( such as Proposition 98 , which guaranteed that 40.3 per cent of state outlays be spent on schools ) , federal rules and court decisions . |
| 29 | Gerald Crawford , spokesman for the FCC , rejected the criticism , saying procedures had been changed three years ago to make sure confiscated nets were not passed back to poachers . |
| 30 | A Darlington woman wrote to Mr Tempest at his Wakefield home saying George had been best man at her wedding in 1947 and lived in Pierremont Road . |