Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Defence lawyers claimed that several injured defendants had been denied medical attention and that many others had been tortured while in custody .
2 The two groups on the four- and five-year study programme had been denied any science education at all in pre-independence Namibia .
3 Twenty one years earlier , Franco had been denied this decoration .
4 We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House .
5 Chauthala had been appointed Chief Minister on Dec. 2 , 1989 , replacing his father , Devi Lal , on the latter 's appointment as the central government 's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture [ see pp. 37031 ; 37124 ] .
6 It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents .
7 Hammadi , a Shia , who had been appointed Prime Minister in March [ see p. 38083 ] , was reported to have favoured greater political liberalization and a closer adherence to UN resolutions to end Iraq 's international isolation .
8 Peterle ( born in 1948 ) had been leader of the Christian Democrats since autumn 1989 , and as the leader of the largest coalition party , had been appointed Prime Minister after the elections .
9 The main architect of the May crackdown , Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon , had been appointed Prime Minister in March 1992 .
10 On July 21 it was announced that Ghozali had been appointed Algerian ambassador to Paris [ see also below ] .
11 Wofford , 65 , once an aide to President Kennedy , had been appointed temporary senator in May 1991 by Democratic governor Robert Casey after the death in April of incumbent Republican John Heinz in a plane crash [ see p. 38138 ] .
12 On Oct. 22 Mohammad Ali Nazaran , the Iranian representative on the tripartite Iranian-Iraqi-ICRC commission charged with supervising the exchange of prisoners , demanded that Iraq " release immediately " Mohammad Javad Tondguyan , who had been appointed Iranian Oil Minister in September 1980 [ see p. 30630 ] and captured by an Iraqi military patrol shortly after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war [ see p. 31008 ] .
13 The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V.
14 He had been appointed Military Attache to my father in 1917 after being badly wounded in France .
15 Later that month , Dr. Harvey Goldsmith who had been appointed medical officer to the Poor Law Institution in 1900 , resigned .
16 Bozer , hitherto Minister of State ( and effectively deputy Prime Minister ) , had been appointed Foreign Minister only in February 1990 .
17 The resignation on July 29 of Vincenzo Scotti ( DC ) , who had been appointed Foreign Minister four weeks earlier , prompted widespread criticism .
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 Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered .
20 I went er , in to check whether these were available last week , just to make sure they were available and , they we , they had been reserved last term but I went to check and , I found so much difficulty finding my way around
21 As an estimated 5.5 million Jaguar shares changed hands , Ford confirmed that it had been granted early approval by US regulatory authorities to begin building its stake , immediately prompting speculation that it had entered the market .
22 The French President , François Mitterrand , confirmed on Oct. 15 that Aoun had been granted political asylum as a " question of honour " and that he would be allowed to remain in the embassy indefinitely .
23 The panel also ruled that in relation to the convictions for accepting an illegal gratuity and for aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress , the evidence should be re-examined " witness by witness , line by line and item by item " , in order to determine whether any of it had been " tainted " by North 's televised testimony to congressional investigating committees in 1987 for which he had been granted limited immunity .
24 It was reported on Dec. 18 that the former president of the Senate , Alberto Borea Odria , who had been involved in the abortive coup of Nov. 13 [ see p. 39187 ] , had been granted safe conduct to travel to Costa Rica , where he had been offered diplomatic asylum .
25 On Feb. 16 the Serbian LC further demanded that what it termed " illegal immigrants " from Albania should be repatriated , and that those who had been granted Yugoslavian citizenship should be stripped of their rights if they had acted against the constitutional order .
26 The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah .
27 Michael had been sent this manuscript by another of his clients , the writer and broadcaster Bryan Magee , who also happened to be Cooper 's MP .
28 In 1988 , the Sunday Times Insight team had been sent this dossier , read it and chose not to rely on it .
29 She had been named regional marketing services manager and expected the job to be confirmed .
30 The announcement added that the Crown Prince and Prime Minister , Shaikh Saad al Abdullah as Salim as Sabah , had been named military governor with the task of co-ordinating Kuwait 's armed forces with those of the allied coalition .
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