Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [prep] [adj] may " in BNC.

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1 Banana exports of $6,500,000 had been lost by early May and the coffee trade had been seriously disrupted .
2 Depos had been formed in late May by two opposition parliamentary parties — the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) and the Democratic Party ( DS ) — and the Serbian Liberal Party and the New Democracy-Movement for Serbia .
3 Ernst Verdieu , the Minister of Social Affairs , and Smark Michel , the Trade and Industry Minister were dismissed on June 14 and replaced respectively by Myrtho Céleston and Jean François Chamblain ; the Justice Minister , Bayard Vincent , had been dismissed in late May and replaced by Karl Auguste .
4 This was presumably the reply given to the representative of HQ Army Group E whom Gen Schmidt-Richberg had been instructed on 13 May to send back to HQ 5 Corps at 1400 hrs the following day .
5 The show , which cost the band $100,000 , had been postponed from last May after objections from Seattle 's city council .
6 This led Tolstoy ( in the minister and the massacres ) to the misconception that a subsequent instruction concerning the definition of a Soviet citizen had been issued on 6 May .
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