Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We were unable to analyse the phenotype of the lymphocytes producing γ-interferon because the specimens had been fixed in formalin . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And surprisingly only one in five teenagers questioned had been taught about homosexuality and lesbianism in school . |
| 6 | Hair Type : Short , grown out style which had been coloured at home . |
| 7 | She looked like someone who had been struck without warning but she did not try to run or cry out . |
| 8 | All said they had been inundated with telephone calls from eager fans . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 13 | The night seemed light , the moon was scudding between white clouds , showing up the white world beyond the drive that had been cleared of snow . |
| 14 | The concrete paths had been cleared of snow and ice . |
| 15 | However , as I could now see , a vast area behind the shops had been cleared of housing and turned into an enormous shopping centre . |
| 16 | Before treatment , H pylori colonisation of the gastric mucosa had been detected by urease test and histology in all patients ( microscopically , after methylenblue staining in 37 and after culture in 31 patients ) . |
| 17 | From the document we learn that not only were pumps installed to drain the mines but a water-powered battery of stamps had been erected at Tilberthwaite . |
| 18 | Huge marquees had been erected on steel frames . |
| 19 | A huge , makeshift scaffold had been erected in front of the palace , a long , thick ashen pole fixed into two uprights at either end . |
| 20 | THE United Nations said that 20 Brazilian and 50 Russian workers had been kidnapped by opposition soldiers in eastern Angola , where they were working on a Congo River dam project . |
| 21 | Mr Suzuki 's flourishes merely echoed and embellished words that had been uttered with signal prescience almost exactly eighty years before , by John Hay . |
| 22 | Four-letter words had been uttered on television before , but never so fulsomely , so splenetically , and never at teatime . |
| 23 | It was enough for the Church that a corpse had been presented for burial . |
| 24 | ( A Challen piano had been presented for use in the church in 1976 . ) |
| 25 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 26 | By July an outline agreement had been presented to Law and Lloyd George , by which 150 seats were allocated to Coalition Liberals , but no decision of principle was taken . |
| 27 | However this may be , Robinson ( 1955 ) , in common with most subsequent investigators of transfer from verbal pretraining to a perceptual task , made use of a quite different task procedure — a test of recognition memory in which the subject had to respond in one way to stimuli that had been presented in pre-training and in a different way to novel stimuli . |
| 28 | Fouts then began work with Lucy , at that time 5 years old , who had been raised since birth as one of the family of a psychotherapist , Maury Temerlin , and his wife . |
| 29 | ‘ Nevertheless , I have come to the conclusion , after much hesitation , that Mr. O'Brien did falsely represent to her that the charge was limited to secure £60,000 and that it would be released in a short time , when the £60,000 had been raised by remortgage . |
| 30 | She told me that there was some money in a bank account which had been raised in memory of her daughter . |