Example sentences of "europe had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rulers of Eastern Europe had been forced to recognise the failure of their system and that ‘ socialism is economic poison ’ . |
| 2 | Europe had been the policy issue which had precipitated his challenge and he reiterated his differences with Mrs Thatcher over Europe . |
| 3 | On the evening of 14 July he was flicking through the London Evening News when he spotted an article which said that the ban on commercial flights between Britain and the rest of Europe had been lifted . |
| 4 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 5 | James had to take what comfort he could from such events , for with the failure of ‘ The Fifteen ’ his prestige in Europe had been greatly diminished , and the Duke of Orleans even threatened to arrest him if he did not leave France . |
| 6 | But the Concert of Europe had been undermined . |
| 7 | But the process is not so hard to understand once it is remembered that nationalism is a political emotion that was not often felt before the old feudal leaders of countries outside Europe had been conquered and replaced by Europeans . |
| 8 | Symbolically , at least , a formal connection had been made in which the success of US policy in strengthening Western Europe had been linked to what was in effect Congressional interest in policies which would ‘ contain' communism in Asia . |
| 9 | Since the failure of the Second Crusade in 1148 the young men of Western Europe had been reluctant to go east , but the news of the disaster at Hattin and the fall of Jerusalem changed all that . |
| 10 | Underlying the enthusiasm that greeted this new attempt at international co-operation there remained an unknown factor : could the wartime co-operation of the Western Allies and the USSR be maintained now that their common enemy in Europe had been defeated ? |
| 11 | Forbes assumed that much of northern Europe had been submerged by a shallow ocean during a period in which the climate was significantly colder than the present ( Lyell 's alternative to the ice age theory ) . |
| 12 | By mid and late Devonian times , the new mountains of Europe had been worn down and shallow shelf seas spread on to the continental margins . |
| 13 | Until the end of the seventeenth century her diplomatic contacts with the States of Western Europe had been intermittent and usually unimportant ( see p. 256 ) . |
| 14 | Europe had been divided by these two into spheres of influence and had been weakened as a result . |
| 15 | The EEE statement , which was immediately denied by the official Angolan news agency Angop , claimed that a four-year " concession for the importation and treatment of [ 5,000,000 tonnes ] of wastes " from western Europe had been agreed on Nov. 5 , 1988 . |
| 16 | Deng reportedly also said that events in Eastern Europe had been a result of Gorbachev 's influence combined with weak leadership in the countries concerned . |
| 17 | Once the vote on Europe had been taken ( an overwhelming majority in favour of the platform 's motion ) , he had slipped out of the hall , pausing only to watch and listen while , at the bidding of the cameras , the national chairman of the YCs blew his trumpet for the umpteenth time . |
| 18 | Great changes were in prospect in the way in which for four centuries the states of Europe had been formally linked together . |
| 19 | This discrepancy could be explained if North America and Europe had been moving with respect to each other as well as with respect to the magnetic pole . |
| 20 | The start of 1993 in the UK and Europe had been slow , but improvement in some sectors was expected towards the end of the year and prospects in the US and Australia looked better , it added . |