Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigations had been halted since December 1990 when the Delhi High Court found irregularities in the preliminary charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) . |
| 2 | The group also reportedly condemned the SPLA 's threat to attack relief flights into Juba , which had been halted on Sept. 7 , because of rebel fire [ see p. 38993 for UN airlift ] . |
| 3 | After the Croats , who had been halted around Bleiburg , had been disarmed ( they also included many civilians ) , they were force-marched out of Austria into Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | The UN programme had been halted in December after the government alleged that UNITA forces were disrupting the convoys . |
| 5 | In a statement issued on Feb. 7 , 1990 , however , it said that some $2,000 million had been spent on an operation which had been halted in mid-September for climatic reasons . |
| 6 | Another consequence of the re-establishment of the authority of Constantius in Britain could well have been an attack on pagan monuments and practices , which had been tolerated under Magnentius . |
| 7 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 8 | In three patients , no analysable DNA histogram could be generated because their tumours had been fixed in Bouin 's solution . |
| 9 | By the time she reached the boat once more , the banner had been fixed in place , and all she had to do was position herself against it , her body making the bold black outline of the letter T — Trends was the name of her company — emblazoned across the white silk . |
| 10 | We were unable to analyse the phenotype of the lymphocytes producing γ-interferon because the specimens had been fixed in formalin . |
| 11 | All the tissue samples had been fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin for 24 hours at room temperature and then routinely processed to paraffin wax . |
| 12 | Two pieces of steel had been fixed in vices and the two men had set to work on them simultaneously . |
| 13 | For much of the century , their daily rate had been fixed by statute , initially in 1721 at 2s or 2s 6d ( 10-12½p ) per day , but they were hardly ever able to find employment constant enough to earn more than 9s ( 45p ) a week , and in their slack months even less . |
| 14 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 15 | And surprisingly only one in five teenagers questioned had been taught about homosexuality and lesbianism in school . |
| 16 | Following the outbreak of the South African war in 1899 she gave private classes in London in these languages — classes which were transferred to King 's College , London , in 1901 ; in 1910 these were formally recognized by the University of London , the first British university to promote the teaching of Bantu languages ( Swahili had been taught in Berlin since 1887 ) . |
| 17 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 18 | A recently qualified medical student from St. Mary 's , C. G. Paine , who had been taught by Fleming and who had gone to work in the Royal Infirmary at Sheffield , obtained a sample of the mould from his former teacher and carried out some clinical experiments with it . |
| 19 | This company has now expanded to three other yards including the former British Shipbuilders Hadrian Yard ( Clellands ) at Wallsend , and the Wallsend Slip way which had been operated by Howard Doris Ltd. for the offshore industry until the demise of that operation in 1986 . |
| 20 | Hair Type : Short , grown out style which had been coloured at home . |
| 21 | Believing that a " deal " had been struck between Singh and Lal , a number of Union ministers temporarily resigned , prompting Singh himself to offer his resignation . |
| 22 | She looked like someone who had been struck without warning but she did not try to run or cry out . |
| 23 | Reports that Tajikistan was selling uranium had been denied on Jan. 31 in an official statement from Tajikistan 's Foreign Ministry . |
| 24 | Earlier reports of such purchases by Iran from the former Soviet republics and North Korea had been denied on Jan. 8 by Iran 's mission to the UN Security Council The permanent representative of the Russian Federation at the UN , Yuliy Vorontsov , had made similar denials on Jan. 23 . |
| 25 | He was not lying when , in Wednesday 's rather pitiful TV interviews aimed at persuading his party not to dump him , he said he had been inundated with letters of support from the world of music , opera , theatre , films and sport . |
| 26 | All said they had been inundated with telephone calls from eager fans . |
| 27 | Could I let them have the exact name of the coffin-manufacturers who had supplied me , as they had been inundated with calls asking for it and , having no success with the number supplied by Directory Enquiries , were needing further information . |
| 28 | In the March 1991 legislative elections Tahoeraa Huiraatira — the opposition party led by Flosse which had been ousted from government in December 1987 , after controlling the territory 's government since March 1982 — captured 18 of the 41 seats in the Territorial Assembly . |
| 29 | Queen Anne 's former chief minister , Henry St John , Viscount Bolingbroke , who had been ousted from office by a Whig on George I 's accession , arrived in Paris that spring , to be followed in August by another influential figure , James Butler , Duke of Ormonde , who had succeeded Marlborough as Captain-General and had contemplated leading a military rebellion against the new king . |
| 30 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |