Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] " 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 | In three patients , no analysable DNA histogram could be generated because their tumours had been fixed in Bouin 's solution . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Reports that Tajikistan was selling uranium had been denied on Jan. 31 in an official statement from Tajikistan 's Foreign Ministry . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , on Feb. 13 rail freight traffic resumed from Baku to Yerevan ( the Armenian capital ) ; the whole Azerbaijan railway network had been paralysed during January , leading to food , fuel and raw materials shortages in Armenia as critical as those of September 1989 [ see pp. 36899 ; 36978-79 ] . |
| 17 | Though the Greater Manchester pension fund investment had been blocked by Stockport council , the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive was still game , and Everett picked up a cheque for £175,000 from a suspicious representative who demanded proof that he was really the man from Guinness Mahon . |
| 18 | The Macedonian government was able to press its claim for recognition , which had been blocked by Greece , by threatening that war was around the corner . |
| 19 | Wolves looked to have earned a point when , after a free-kick had been blocked by Forrest , Mutch followed up to equalise . |
| 20 | The British Plate Glass Manufactory had been erected at Ravenhead , near the village , in 1773 , and other glassworks followed . |
| 21 | The Independent chapel at Bullhouse had been erected by Elkanah Rich of Bullhouse Hall in 1692 in the early years of religious toleration and in 1786 another Independent chapel had been established 2 miles away at Netherfield , where the services were much more evangelical in tone . |
| 22 | She had been rededicated at St Luke 's a year previous to that . |
| 23 | Keenan had been kidnapped on April 11 , 1986 , while working at the American University of Beirut . |
| 24 | Sutherland , a United States national and dean of Agriculture at the American University in Beirut ( AUB ) , had been kidnapped on June 9 , 1985 [ see p. 34133 ] . |
| 25 | Wamwere 's lawyers claimed that he had been kidnapped from Uganda . |
| 26 | Alann Steen , a US national who had been kidnapped in January 1987 [ see p. 35024 ] , was released by the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine on Dec. 3 . |
| 27 | Anderson had been kidnapped in March 1985 [ see p. 33685 ] and was the longest-held Western hostage . |
| 28 | Buckley , the US CIA station chief in Lebanon , had been kidnapped in March 1984 by Islamic Jihad . |
| 29 | Frank Reed , the US director of the Lebanese International College who had been kidnapped in Beirut in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , was released into Syrian custody in West Beirut on April 30 . |
| 30 | McCarthy , the first Western hostage released in Lebanon since the freeing of Brian Keenan in August 1990 [ see p. 37668 ] , had been kidnapped in Beirut on April 17 , 1986 , only a short while after arriving in the city to serve as acting bureau chief for Worldwide Television [ see p. 34458 ] . |