Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [been] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 2 | But in mid-1942 , at Bir-Hakeim in the Libyan desert , Free French forces had scored their first significant victory against German forces , and this had been followed by other successful actions in North Africa . |
| 3 | A placing in which selected shareholders ( usually investing institutions ) are invited to buy up to 15 million ( this had been limited to 3 million until 1986 ) of additional equity . |
| 4 | This had been achieved following lengthy negotiations with the Post Office and would cause minimal disruption and considerable savings over the current system . |
| 5 | It was felt that this had been actuated by some bad ( and in the company 's opinion , unfair ) publicity . |
| 6 | This had been started in 1888 and progressively abandoned from 1950 . |
| 7 | This had been reduced to 24 hours from 48 based on the 1989 evaluations and seemed to be just about right . |
| 8 | There should have been a large timber column but this had been removed for some reason many years ago and led to the roof sagging some 4 ’ . |
| 9 | But all this had been wasted by some heavy handed crimping . |
| 10 | Thirty-one had been discharged by 1983 but with six of these patients having been transferred to a general hospital for physical illness and having subsequently died . |
| 11 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 12 | But the Treasury issued a counter-statement saying that nothing improper had been asked of civil servants by ministers . |
| 13 | No less than 625 had been lost since 1945 . |
| 14 | A SOC Commerce Ministry official said in an interview on March 12 that Soviet economic aid to Cambodia for 1991 had been reduced by 80 per cent to about US$170,000,000 . |
| 15 | The PVO increased its show of strength , choosing as a special focus the little town of Tantabin , 40 miles from Rangoon , where the first BNA action against the Japanese had been staged in 1945 . |
| 16 | The First World " War interrupted the process , but it is clear that much had been done by 1914 . |
| 17 | Compared to this Packard-Merlin , the Mk III had been raised in immaculate condition and its rocker covers still gleam with the original black paintwork . |
| 18 | In 1987 , 233 had been admitted at some time into the prison hospital . |
| 19 | Laub ; they believed that six had been hit in all from an estimated fifteen . |
| 20 | Some prisoners benefiting from the general amnesty of March 7 had been detained following earlier incidents in October 1987 and October 1988 . |
| 21 | All three had been assigned to Long Kesh Prison near Lisburn to await trial . |
| 22 | All three had been convicted in 1986 of the 1985 murder of the Belau President , Haruo Remeliik but had been freed on appeal [ see pp. 33995-96 ; 35003 ; 35648 ] . |
| 23 | But by Friday the three had been reduced to two . |
| 24 | Peace had not brought prosperity , but higher prices , and the normal ranks of the indigent had been swollen by discharged soldiers . |
| 25 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 26 | The resolution said that the campaign of forced assimilation waged against the ethnic-Turkish minority since 1984 had been based on arbitrary and autocratic decisions which had flagrantly violated Bulgaria 's Constitution and international treaty commitments and had eroded national unity . |
| 27 | A considerable proportion of this first generation of Peter 's representatives in western Europe were foreigners in Russian service ; but by the 1720s these had been replaced by native-born Russians . |
| 28 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 29 | These had been used to good effect by the PRD in the presidential elections of July 1988 , when the PRD candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano had accused the PRI of indulging in blatant electoral fraud to deny him victory [ see pp. 36367-69 ] . |
| 30 | These had been drawn without any reference to , or sometimes even without the knowledge of , their inhabitants and therefore had no national or even protonational significance for their populations ; except for colonial-educated and westernised native minorities of varying but generally exiguous size . |