Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 2 | An astonishing repair of sorts had been effected some time in the last century : a young fruit tree was nailed vertically to the back of the panel and held in place with iron bands . |
| 3 | Mr Crawford added more than 600 illegal nets had been seized this year . |
| 4 | The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah . |
| 5 | Also , domestication of dogs and cattle had been undertaken some twelve hundred years ago in southern Europe by Azilian hunters who had used dogs to corner their prey . |
| 6 | In July 1969 , the select committee reported in favour of the publication both of the five-year rolling programme in the form of an annual White Paper with a full explanation of what changes had been made that year , and of the Medium Term Economic Assessment . |
| 7 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 8 | The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm . |
| 9 | The flat was sweltering although curtains had been drawn all day to keep the sun out . |
| 10 | Government reports on Oct. 5 claimed that the Hezb-i-Islami forces had been pushed some 30 km outside the city . |
| 11 | At the Tour 's A.G.M. last year , I asked how many players had been fined that season for slow play . |
| 12 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 13 | The barristers told Leicester Crown Court the doctors had been punished enough . |
| 14 | Just three seals had been killed that day , when more than twenty were needed ; and only one cleanly , by a single spear-thrust from Okawi . |
| 15 | 150 enquiries had been made this year , and potential students are now seeking funding . |
| 16 | The men had been gone several weeks , and when we appeared on the beach , the bear was probably expecting us to produce food . |
| 17 | The assumption was that the police had been given enough information to pick up the terrorists quickly . |
| 18 | In the period before 1910 about 85,000 new houses had been built each year , but after the introduction of Land Values Duties the building rate fell sharply . |
| 19 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 20 | When the political dictatorships had been overthrown several alternative courses of action were open to the successor regimes . |
| 21 | Meanwhile haemophiliacs had been assured that blood products were free from HIV and therefore safe . |
| 22 | In agreement with Lapworth , it was shown that the uppermost rocks had been pushed many miles over the lower ones along a low-angled thrust fault . |
| 23 | Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse . |