Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a recent example , see Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , where a dispute about damages was referred to accountants by an agreement entered into after the parties ' dispute about liability had been settled by some other method ; there had been no prior agreement in the original contract to refer to an expert . |
| 2 | The political groundwork for change had been laid by the " realistic rents " policy applied to the public sector by the Housing Subsidies Act 1956 . |
| 3 | Symptoms developed four weeks after treatment for eczema had been started by the same hakim who had treated the first patient . |
| 4 | The liberating message of Luther 's theology was that salvation could be obtained only by faith , not by works — faith in a God whose love for humanity had been demonstrated in the person of Christ . |
| 5 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |
| 6 | Robert had seen the development in varying stages , and had assisted in shipping out tons of building materials , but it was four months since he had been to Barbados and a lot of progress had been made since then . |
| 7 | ‘ Staff numbers had doubled over the previous five to six years and a programme of change had been thrust upon us by the market , ’ explained . |
| 8 | Slovo 's publication of a draft policy programme Has socialism failed ? , revising the former hardline SACP stance to espouse multiparty democracy , received considerable attention , particularly in view of the close alliance between the SACP and the ANC , and the extent to which the threat of communism had been accentuated by the South African regime in its attitude to the ANC in the past . |
| 9 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 10 | Pieces of shirt had been wrapped round their heads . |
| 11 | Olszewski said that he had approved the retirement because once a civilian Minister of Defence had been appointed in December 1991 — see pp. 38685-86 ] , there was no post suitable for such a high-ranking officer . |
| 12 | There were two decisions which were binding where the rule of privilege had been applied to copied documents : The Palermo ( 1883 ) 9 PD 6 , and Watson v Cammel Laird & Co ( Shipbuilders and Engineers ) Ltd ( 1959 ) 1 WLR 702 . |
| 13 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him . |
| 14 | It is true that certain measures of nationalisation had been undertaken in the first months of Soviet government — for example , the Merchant Marine had been taken over in January 1918 and the sugar industry nationalised in May of that year — but the main efforts had been directed towards a stabilisation and regularisation of the tottering economy on the existing basis of ownership . |
| 15 | The final act of the winter of discontent had been played by the students . |
| 16 | Members of Darlington recreation committee yesterday heard how more than £3,500 worth of damage had been caused to art works in the Myles Meehan Gallery over the past few months . |
| 17 | What level of negligence had been shown by the authorities ? |
| 18 | Within the total for universities , seven were providing no Chapter III courses and of the five which did , most of the twenty-one listed in the table were arranged by Birmingham where this type of course had been offered in the industrial areas prior to the introduction of the 1932 Adult Education Regulations and which had continued under an established precedent . |
| 19 | While no formal admission of liability had been made by the health board , it was the amount of damages that was in dispute . |
| 20 | In another it was said that the legitimate expectation of a prisoner that he would be allowed maximum parole if no disciplinary award of forfeiture of remission of sentence had been made against him , gave him sufficient interest to challenge the award . |
| 21 | The Darwinians assumed that this kind of coloration had been developed by natural selection . |
| 22 | Gainsborough 's executives were pushed very much against their will into an expensive production of Christopher Columbus ( 1949 ) , simply because a lot of money had been spent on a script . |
| 23 | By the 1980s the phenomenon of transinstitutionalization had been uncovered by Lamb and Brown amongst others . |
| 24 | This should have satisfied the students , but it was too little , too late ; a course of action had been set into motion which was difficult to reverse . |
| 25 | All the same , Cissie was right in one assumption : Beth 's peace of mind had been shattered on that particular day . |
| 26 | This type of skepticism had been sustained by the knowledge that the mathematical devices used by Ptolemy could not be squared with the homocentric spheres of Aristotelian cosmology . |
| 27 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 28 | This wave of opposition had been echoed in Muslim and Third World countries . |
| 29 | Memories of the Prince of Wales 's detective emerging from the oven came back and he wondered wildly whether some abstruse method of murder had been performed before his very eyes . |
| 30 | The reiterated formalities of ritual had been replaced by the specific and ( even on the same themes ) consciously variable compositions of words and actions by individual dramatists . |