Example sentences of "[noun] had been [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time . |
| 2 | Once the special character combinations had been replaced the file was iteratively refined . |
| 3 | The fact that evidence and documents relating to the case had either disappeared or been tampered with and that witnesses had been threatened led members of a US Congressional investigative task force to conclude that the military high command had been controlling the investigation and limiting the number and rank of the officers to be held responsible for the crime . |
| 4 | The Secte Rouge guards had been charging the Marines with their machetes , to little effect , though a couple of Marines had gone down . |
| 5 | New Zealand 's Foreign Affairs Minister , Don McKinnon , said that he was " appalled and disgusted " to learn that the agent had been made a knight in the National Order of Merit . |
| 6 | With an ink nib had been added the name of Michael Holly . |
| 7 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |
| 8 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 9 | As a result the educational psychologist had been investigating the possibility of a place at a local special school for Balbinder . |
| 10 | Lucy had been reading The Saint from her father 's shelves when all of the other girls had their noses in Black Beauty . |
| 11 | Up to then the UK and Irish entries had been fighting a tooth and nail contest . |
| 12 | The Earl of Hyndford had been sent a box of earth from the ‘ innermost parts of the Cherokee nation ’ . |
| 13 | Clearly Dorothy 's principal intention had been to record the apple harvest — a prodigious one ; Helen 's presence was incidental , like one of those figures introduced for purposes of scale or composition . |
| 14 | The intention had been to give the premiere of Sea Change at Sadler 's Wells to open the Theatre Ballet 's new season there , but it was thought that by then John would already have left for New York to take part in the Sadler 's Wells Ballet 's first American tour , so the decision was made to present the ballet first on 18 July 1949 at the Gaiety Theatre , Dublin , where the company concluded its summer tour . |
| 15 | Godard 's intention had been to accompany the reading with its author descending stairs , naked , in order to confront the viewer , it was assumed , with the contrast between argument , theory , and the sexual objectification of women . |
| 16 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 17 | A hundred years of missionary effort had failed utterly ; its only effect had been to confirm the Abyssinians in their attachment to their ancient faith and to sow in them the seeds of xenophobia . |
| 18 | The British egg industry had been made a scapegoat for food poisoning by the Government . |
| 19 | THE magician and his talking parrot had been working an ocean liner , until one day the liner went down in fog . |
| 20 | After a dress rehearsal for a Symphony Hour show , I suggested , as producer , that in the adagio movement of the main symphonic item the violins had been taking the tempo slightly too fast . |
| 21 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 22 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 23 | So Johnny had been afforded a glimpse of her own time , had he ? |
| 24 | Control Data had been mulling the use of other RISCs , notably the Hewlett-Packard Co PA chip , but these machinations were , as the company admitted ( UX No 384 ) , a bluff to bring Silicon Graphics and NEC to the table . |
| 25 | Since mid century , philanthropists and social reformers had been urging the removal of the population of the inner-city slums to the more salubrious outskirts of the city . |
| 26 | Gould had been given a number of letters of introduction to the veteran explorer from , among others , George Bank , who had accompanied Franklin on one of his Arctic expeditions , and Captain John Washington , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 27 | For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge . |
| 28 | Construction work had been halted a week earlier in line with EC demands . |
| 29 | Officials in Washington had been sounding the warning for over four years , noting that Guatemala is a trans-shipment point for Colombian cocaine and heroin heading north to the United States and Mexico . |
| 30 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |