Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 2 | Captain Glen had recently reported that the university had been retaken with little opposition , and Mortimer had immediately set off . |
| 3 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 4 | as if he had been struck by some unseen force into stillness , he stopped , his right arm still embracing an imaginary figure , his left arm extended . |
| 5 | It was a dramatic gesture , a revelation ; it put him in a position of power , if only for a moment , but he liked that position and his primacy had been denied in that group of irreverents . |
| 6 | Add the fact that by my visit ( Easter 1990 ) paths had been cleared under several hundred metres of new cliff to the left , and that six bolt-guns were at work equipping lines on an impressive upper tier , and I 'm sure the next guidebook will be at least twice as thick . |
| 7 | This room had been cleared of all but two of the great packages . |
| 8 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 9 | P cepacia was not recovered from the external surface of the spirometer handpiece , or from the arms of a wooden chair that had been grasped by each patient during spirometry . |
| 10 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 11 | Their roots lay deep in the shell-holes and in the earthen barricades which had been erected with such sectarian conviction more than a decade before . |
| 12 | It had been realised by this time that , even if polythene did not fit into the then accepted mould for plastics , which tended to be glassy substances like polystyrene and Perspex , it might still be useful . |
| 13 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 14 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 15 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 16 | There , as if a curtain had been raised on both sides of the river , suddenly were campsites , fishing and bathing . |
| 17 | Jackie Stewart also announced that the record sum of £200,000 had been raised by this year 's Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge . |
| 18 | Sales by 1948 were almost double those of ten years earlier , though the installed capacity of power stations had been increased by less than half of this . |
| 19 | Reports were coming from all over the country of different children who had been adopted by this kindly old lady . |
| 20 | Nearly one-third of domestic consumers in 1948 were on very high flat-rate tariffs designed for small users , but these were gradually induced by Area Boards to shift to ‘ two-part ’ or ‘ block ’ tariffs which had been adopted by most of the larger , progressive undertakings before nationalisation . |
| 21 | Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools . |
| 22 | The principle had been adopted in most , if not all , Commonwealth countries ; though in some it has now been modified or abandoned , either by statute or by judicial action . |
| 23 | A section of runway had been cordoned off that afternoon by the remaining twenty policemen who had strict orders not to allow anyone through without an official pass . |
| 24 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 25 | It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant . |
| 26 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 27 | In each case the siblings concerned had been separated from each other when they were babies . |
| 28 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 29 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 30 | At least by 1960 it had been recognised in this jurisdiction that it connotes a duty not to injure one 's neighbour by want of reasonable care . |