Example sentences of "had been held [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported that the final signing had been held up over successive objections raised by Taylor , and that he eventually signed only under pressure from Capt. Blaise Compaore , the head of state of Burkina , a country which , according to some reports , had previously been an important source of arms supplies to Taylor 's faction . |
| 2 | Negotiations had been held up during 1989 by a series of disputes [ see p. 37573 ] , and in May 1990 Malaysia had cancelled plans to buy for £400,000,000 ( nearly US$700 million ) 12 Tornado jet fighters from British Aerospace . |
| 3 | In return the Americans this month unblocked $5m in military aid that had been held up after last year 's arrests . |
| 4 | The initialling of the agreement , reached in principle in October 1991 [ see pp. 38541-42 ] , had been held up by legal objections raised in December [ see p. 38691 ] by the EC 's European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) . |
| 5 | A service accord had been held up by developing countries , who feared that liberalization would allow Western financial companies to cripple newly established indigenous financial service industries . |
| 6 | However , in April 1990 the President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , said that economic development had been held back in sub-Saharan African countries by the weakness of their political systems , nepotism and corruption . |