Example sentences of "[noun] had been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The completion of the West European scheme for economic recovery and the formation by the East Europeans of the Cominform in September 1947 , meant that the Continent had been severed in two . |
| 2 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 3 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 4 | Long ago the Vexin had been divided into two along the line of the River Epte : on the east bank the French Vexin held by the King of France , on the west the Norman Vexin held by the Duke of Normandy . |
| 5 | Prior to the civil war of 1990 , an opposition coalition had been formed in 1986 by the Liberian Action Party ( LAP , Jackson F. Doe l. ) ; the Liberian Unification Party ( LUP , William Gabriel Kpolleh l. ) ; and the Unity Party ( UP , Edward Kesselly l . ) . |
| 6 | Health Secretary William Waldegrave told an NHS managers ' conference in London that in January long term waiting lists had been cut by thirty percent . |
| 7 | That increase resulted in the rest of the world overtaking the European Community , whose investment had been falling since 1987 , reaching an all-time low in 1991 , with a share of just over 3 per cent . |
| 8 | A set of old , wooden steps had been cut into one side . |
| 9 | Private George Trumper had been killed on 2 November 1917 at Passchendaele , the letter had informed him : bravely , while charging the enemy lines at Polygon Wood . |
| 10 | We found that since GCE had been published in 1972 , ideas on grammar , and knowledge of English grammar , had changed considerably . |
| 11 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 12 | Up to 70 white rhinos had been recorded in 1992 . |
| 13 | Within the ancient royal estates ( and later hundreds ) of Cannington and North Petherton , a large holding had been assembled by 1066 belonging to the Saxon Alfwy . |
| 14 | Rotation was continued until the gall bladder was clear on fluoroscopy and no impacts had been felt for five minutes . |
| 15 | The New English Art Club had been founded in 1886 somewhat in defiance of the Royal Academy , and the Fitzroy Street Group was a dissatisfied breakaway from it . |
| 16 | These main-line electric multiple units had been built between 1959 and 1963 for the Kent Coast electrification with a design life of approximately twenty-five years . |
| 17 | The drawing had been published in 1935 in connection with the painting , yet both consignor and Sotheby 's had been ignorant of this . |
| 18 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 19 | Manning said he was told Mr McVeigh had been warned on four occasions not to supply goods to the security forces . |
| 20 | The entire Cabinet resigned to facilitate the re-shuffle and Prime Minister Michael Manley announced that the total number of ministers , ministers of state and parliamentary secretaries had been reduced from 39 to 28 . |
| 21 | The Milwukee Project broke into the national news , when S. P. Strickland implied , in the July 197 I issue of American Education , that the IQs of children in Heber 's study had been raised by 33 points . |
| 22 | The college had been founded in 1823 by George Birkbeck as a ‘ Mechanics ' Institute ’ , enshrining those virtues of self-improvement and industry which corresponded with the best qualities in the character of William Joyce . |
| 23 | At the beginning of the century , the Royal Institution had been founded with two aims which turned out to be incompatible : to bring science both to mechanics and to the landed gentry . |
| 24 | Further , if the pound had been devalued in 1964 or 1966 , it is likely that the trade unions would have resisted the cut in real wages which devaluation implies , as they did after 1967 . |
| 25 | Rangers piled on the pressure in the last 15 minutes and an instinctive Mathers save kept out Mark Hateley but the big Rangers frontman had the final say after Dundee had been reduced to ten men . |
| 26 | IF DAVID HOCKNEY had been born in 1837 instead of 1937 , he would have become an Olympian rather than a Californian . |
| 27 | Consecutive sentences of three months had been passed for two offences of driving while disqualified , with a further six months consecutive for an excess alcohol offence . |
| 28 | 15,000 homes had been built by 1988 , with a projection of 30,000 by 1995 ’ ( Source : LDDC estimates ) |
| 29 | A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own . |
| 30 | Several hundred Albanians , watched by a crowd of more than 10,000 onlookers , on Jan. 18 packed into Tirana 's Etem Bey mosque , on the city 's central Skanderbeg Square , for Albania 's first legal Moslem religious service since religious practice had been banned in 1967 . |