Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal agreed was structured to put two parties between Virgin and Boeing : one was Barclays Bank , who actually bought the plane in cash , and took advantage of the tax allowances available ; they then leased the aircraft ( on a UK Tax Lease ) to Chemco Equipment Finance ( a subsidiary of the American Chemical Bank ) , who in turn subleased it ( on an Operating Lease ) to Virgin Atlantic . |
| 2 | The wool saved was used to knit new toes and heels . |
| 3 | At 1800 hours on 28 June the brigade had been ordered to take three positions which formed a bridgehead from which the enemy could further develop his attack . |
| 4 | Proof of the number of seats in a passenger motor car or the maximum gross weight of a goods vehicle may be necessary to show this new offence applies to the vehicle in question , eg. ‘ The motor car had been adapted to carry 8 seated passengers in addition to the driver ’ ( but not more than 8 ) . |
| 5 | A spokeswoman for Lacy Scott Auctioneers , off Risbygate Street , Bury St Edmunds , said the programme had been expected to fetch several hundred pounds . |
| 6 | A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . |
| 7 | An attempt had been made to offset recent enclosures by letting out a few five-acre plots , rent and tithe free , to deserving poor , but the newer legislation continued to make things difficult . |
| 8 | An attempt had been made to sell this document to a Sunday newspaper , and Ashdown had secured a " gagging " injunction preventing mention of anything to do with the matter . |
| 9 | A crude attempt had been made to erase three initials , but they were still plainly visible . |
| 10 | However , this concealed the fact that many ‘ listable ’ churches had never actually been listed , for , as the Church was exempt from listed building control , no systematic attempt had been made to list any but the most obvious churches . |
| 11 | De-selection had become something of a fashion in the Tory Party : an attempt had been made to de-select several Tory MPs who had campaigned for Heseltine in the leadership contest of November 1990 . |
| 12 | He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now . |
| 13 | Inspectors had been appointed to investigate two companies under the control of Robert Maxwell . |
| 14 | In presenting the majority opinion , Justice William J. Brennan noted that the new statute had been framed to penalize all flag burning , regardless of motive , but contained " the same fundamental flaw " in that it suppressed expression with which the legislators disagreed . |
| 15 | At an emergency Arab League meeting in Cairo on March 22 [ see p. 38839 ] a seven-member committee had been formed to investigate possible solutions to the dispute . |
| 16 | Over the previous two years the lower-school IS work had been restructured to incorporate new elements and an increased use of project work . |
| 17 | We have already seen that not only was forest the natural primeval vegetation of Britain , but also that enormous areas had been felled to create arable land by the Bronze Age and that woodland management probably existed by the Neolithic period . |
| 18 | It really seemed as if Ross had been determined to make sure the day was a success . |
| 19 | It became clear that most investment and credits in the urban sector had been used to finance further mechanisation and capitalisation , creating limits to labour absorption of industrial sectors . |
| 20 | Elisabeth had been ordered to stand three feet away and witness the murder . |
| 21 | In any case , its rationale had not really been political ; the campaign had been designed to attract new recruits . |
| 22 | Often the verges had been left to grow wild and bushy . |
| 23 | The plan was also attacked by the Phalangist Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia which noted that Hezbollah guerrillas operating in the south had been allowed to retain heavy weaponry . |
| 24 | I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight . |
| 25 | With a central lawn and borders around the edge , this garden would have lacked character , but internal hedges and a patio overhead had been used to create distinct areas that can be explored like the rooms of a house , each with a new mood and style . |
| 26 | No bars on the windows now , but a rose in full bloom had been allowed to grow unchecked up one of the walls — perhaps a descendant of the rose the erring de Rochefort wife of centuries ago had used to signal to her lover . |
| 27 | Beccaria 's ideas had been fated to win great praise but achieve less by way of practical influence in the running of penal systems . |
| 28 | In April and May of this year , the Junior Minister of Health , in April Tom announced from the shared platform with David , the Tory MP for Havant , but better known as a leading member of the Tory think tank , that regulations had been lifted to allow private capital to have free access to the N H S. |
| 29 | Only 30 per cent of the usual resources had been used to achieve this , and the entire harvest had been sold , he said . |
| 30 | ADN had also reported that no evidence had been found to substantiate similar allegations against de Maizière and Gregor Gysi , the PDS leader . |