Example sentences of "had been break [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
2 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
3 | Diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya had been broken off since that year . |
4 | Relations with the Vatican had been broken off in 1861 but Pope John Paul II visited Mexico in 1990 [ see p. 37475 ] while Salinas went to the Vatican in July 1991 . |
5 | Amid the resumption of trade and consular relations with various East European countries , diplomatic relations with Hungary , which had been broken off in 1973 , were resumed on Jan. 11 , 1990 , and with Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union on March 11 . |
6 | They had been broken off in 1946 following the sinking of two British frigates off Corfu ; on Albania 's refusal to pay compensation , the UK refused to hand over Albanian gold ( currently estimated to be worth US$18,000,000 ) seized by the Nazis during the Second World War and held in trust by the UK ever since . |
7 | Guatemala and the Soviet Union on Jan. 4 signed an agreement at the UN headquarters in New York re-establishing diplomatic relations which had been broken off in 1947 . |
8 | She said the oil had been broken down into small particles and was being absorbed by organisms at the bottom of the food chain . |
9 | As the record company had grown , it too had been broken down into smaller units : DinDisc had been a model for two more affiliated labels , 10 and Siren . |