Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its social bases include : ( i ) the crisis , for many artists , of the transition from patronage to the market ; ( ii ) the crisis , in certain arts , of the transition from handwork to machine production ( see Chapter 4 , below ) ; ( iii ) crises within both patronage and the market , in a period of intense and general social conflict ; ( iv ) the attachment of certain groups to a pre-capitalist and/or pre-democratic social order , in which some arts had been accorded privilege within a general privilege ; ( v ) the attachment of other groups to the democratization of the social order , as part of the process of general liberation and human enrichment to which the arts , if they were allowed , could contribute : ( vi ) a more general opposition , often overlapping and even seeming to unite these diverse political views , to the practices and values of a ‘ commercial ’ and ‘ mechanical ’ civilization , from which the practice and values of the arts could be distinguished . |
| 2 | Corbett had been accompanied north by four messengers — chosen by the Chancellor from his own household . |
| 3 | Creed had been appointed chairman , yet there was no sense of celebration . |
| 4 | My eyes had been glared dark . |
| 5 | Jews had been denied citizen 's rights of any kind . |
| 6 | Since 1982 , 92 foreigners had been held hostage in Lebanon and at least 10 had died in captivity . |
| 7 | Negus Mikael , Lij Yasu 's father , being now a devout Christian , had condemned his son 's affiliation to Islam , but when he heard that Lij Yasu had been deposed family pride was outraged . |
| 8 | Two thirds of those with baseline hypoxaemia had been born preterm and may have been suffering mild , clinically unapparent chronic lung disease . |
| 9 | The applicant had been granted access to accounts on condition that he paid what was considered to be excessive amounts for rent of room , photocopying , and a union official 's salary . |
| 10 | A READER asked what sort of heroes we are producing because Nigel Mansell and Nick Faldo had been pictured crying . |
| 11 | It was 14 months later in January 1987 — shortly after Oliver North 's arms for hostages deal had been made public — that Waite was kidnapped while waiting in Dr Mroueh 's surgery for another meeting with the kidnappers . |
| 12 | In the event they were never called upon to fight , reaching London only after Richard had been declared king . |
| 13 | In the event they were never called upon to fight , reaching London only after Richard had been declared king . |
| 14 | Such a plea might be successful where the employee had been paid danger money to undertake precisely that risk . |
| 15 | Hickel had been elected governor of the state in 1966 , as a Republican , but had left office in 1969 to become President Nixon 's first Interior Secretary . |
| 16 | Yameogo had been appointed Minister of Agriculture in July 1991 , but had resigned from the government in August [ see p. 38424 ] . |
| 17 | Compaore had been re-elected President in elections in December 1991 which were boycotted by opposition parties [ see p. 38665 ] . |
| 18 | Wing Commander J.M. Gilchrist had been appointed Bursar and Clerk to the Governors in 1962 , and to him had fallen the task — in addition to his ordinary duties — of arranging the financing of the numerous building programmes . |
| 19 | In two test cases involving boys under the age of five , application to be housed had been made in the name of child after the parents had been refused accommodation . |
| 20 | At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel . |
| 21 | The Kazakhstan news agency , KazTAg , reported on Oct. 1 that Kazakhstan had been granted observer status at the GATT session in Geneva on Sept. 29 . |
| 22 | It was reported on Aug. 9 that Albania had been granted observer status at the Vienna talks on confidence- and security-building measures ( CSBM ) , part of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 23 | Demand management had been given priority in preference to profitable or productive work . |
| 24 | Our home had been turned upside down , our little boy , who we now loved so much , was diagnosed as retarded and Andreas was told he would be jailed for up to seven years in Cyprus . |
| 25 | Artur Mkrtchyan had been elected Chair of the Supreme Soviet , with Oleg Yesayan becoming Prime Minister . |
| 26 | According to casualty figures for the conflict in 1991 issued by Nagorny Karabakh 270 Armenians , 216 Azerbaijanis and 15 servicemen of various nationalities had died ; 400 Armenians , 180 Azerbaijanis and 34 servicemen had been wounded ; and 599 Armenians had been taken hostage , of whom 226 had not yet returned . |
| 27 | It described how there had been a fifty percent increase in food poisoning cases in district year and then it went on to say that it , it was largely , it was thought that that increase was largely because of the increased publicity which the council had been given hygiene training , and saying how many people had been trained , and how the Health Committee was being asked to provide more resources so there could more courses even , even more courses in the following year . |
| 28 | There were other reports that judges had been refused permission to appear on television in the early 1980s . |
| 29 | In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans . |
| 30 | In Argentina , for example , Juan Domingo Perón had been elected President in February , and neighbouring Portugal was still ruled by another Right-wing dictator , Antonio Oliveira de Salazar . |