Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] had been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Tirgu Mures , the HDUR candidate for mayor had been deemed ineligible to stand by a local court ; the party then supported an independent candidate , who won the election but then resigned after revelations that his nomination papers were irregular . |
| 2 | Bahrain and Qatar were both members of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) , and reports emerged on July 29 that a series of GCC ministerial meetings scheduled for July had been postponed due to " rising tension " between the two countries . |
| 3 | The office of President had been left vacant since Ayliffe 's retirement . |
| 4 | ‘ A piece of wood had been driven clean through the heart , apparently after death . ’ |
| 5 | Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater aid that the Department of Transport had been kept abreast of developments . |
| 6 | Now that the threat of interdict had been made public Henry began to negotiate more seriously . |
| 7 | The tin-mining towns of Camborne and Redruth on the north coast of Cornwall had been facing major redundancies since the 1985 plunge in tin prices . |
| 8 | We discovered later that a crowd of drop-outs had been living rough on the Towers , using local fishing boats to ferry them to and fro . |
| 9 | The Court ruled on April 24 that the government was entitled to dismiss up to 600,000 former East German civil servants who at the time of unification had been given temporary contracts rather than being made redundant . |
| 10 | Traditionally these two stereotypes of womanhood had been kept separate . |
| 11 | In the meantime more than a thousand miles of rivers had been made navigable , but these made no noticeable change in the landscape . |
| 12 | By the end of June as many as 1,000 people had died in the fighting and thousands of others had been made homeless . |
| 13 | The school 's decision not to become involved in testing had been proved right . |
| 14 | News broke that Steven Jones , a physicist at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) — 30 miles from Salt Lake City and rival of the University of Utah — and a team from BYU had been studying cold fusion for years independently of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 15 | It was August 1980 — after her divorce from Hubert had been made absolute . |
| 16 | The embassy in London had been sending disturbing accounts of Britain 's over-stretched economy and defence forces well before Labour took office . |
| 17 | When I was 12 years of age , a woman in one of the small villages not far from Riyadh had been found guilty of adultery . |
| 18 | A Christmas card sent to him by an AI member in Switzerland had been returned marked ‘ Consigned is free ’ . |
| 19 | Although the 1990 unification treaty had confirmed Berlin as the German capital , the issue of whether the organs of government located in Bonn should move to Berlin had been left unresolved [ see pp. 37832 ; 37661 ] . |
| 20 | In the alternative , however , they contended that the payments by Woolwich had been made pursuant to an implied agreement between Woolwich and the revenue whereby it was agreed that the revenue would hold the sums pending the outcome of proceedings to determine the validity of the relevant regulations , and that any entitlement of Woolwich to repayment arose on the date of the first judgment of Nolan J. with the effect that interest ran only from that date . |