Example sentences of "[adj] had been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House . |
| 2 | But this had been followed by a sense of personal outrage , an emptiness and then a surge of melancholy , not strong enough to be called grief but keener than mere regret , which had surprised him by its intensity . |
| 3 | This had been authorized in a joint directive issued by Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov and Interior Minister Boris Pugo on Dec. 29 , 1990 . |
| 4 | A length of thick blue nylon rope like this had been tied at a height of about 4 ft across the main Cattle Market Road in Northampton . |
| 5 | The reactor itself was shut down in nineteen ninety , but gas bottles like this had been left inside a secure unit called a glove box , and they were n't labelled . |
| 6 | This had been described as a thrust , but it is almost certainly a submarine landslip deposit like those in Italy . |
| 7 | The idea for this had been offered at a full NEC meeting by Mr Wallace of the Irish Division . |
| 8 | For many years , as a result of the reduction in the flow of the Painswick Stream coupled with the silting up of the mill pond , this had been used on a 50:50 basis with a gas engine , sufficient water only being available for half a day 's working . |
| 9 | There had been a bulb on the staircase but this had been removed by a stranger , for whose actions the defendants were not responsible . |
| 10 | This had been designed as a power unit for working in alleys and narrow back-ways where conventional vehicles were unable to operate . |
| 11 | Most necklaces were still unsold when the beads were identified and withdrawn , but some had been bought by a craft worker in Gloucestershire . |
| 12 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 13 | A total of 43 of the victims had been separated from their families in childhood by state authorities , all but two had left school before completing their secondary education , and 43 had been charged with a criminal offence by the age of 15 . |
| 14 | Another had been locked in a stable in its own manure for more than five months . |
| 15 | The set-back of 1826 had been turned into a triumph . |
| 16 | It showed that subsection ( 2 ) of section 10 had been introduced as a government amendment and it was piloted through the committee stage by the then Minister of State for the Home Office , Mr Patrick Mayhew . |
| 17 | His erstwhile subordinate had been raised to a position of considerable power now , and he would no doubt recall how little mercy he had been shown by his former Controller . |
| 18 | According to accepted criteria , 11 patients were suitable for liver transplant assessment but only three had been referred to a transplant centre . |
| 19 | The other two had been trying to rescue him when all three had been killed by a single well-placed mortar bomb . |
| 20 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 21 | These had been developed over a one year period and had been fully piloted . |
| 22 | Some 5,000 Western men remained trapped in Kuwait and Iraq , however , and there were reports confirming that some 500 of these had been taken as a " human shield " to sensitive installations [ see also above ] . |
| 23 | The Grand National had been brought to a halt . |
| 24 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 25 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 26 | The latter had been described as a pewterer and metaller in 1666 ( see The Boke off Recorde of Kirkbie-Kendall , ed. by R. S. Fergusson ) later to become the well beloved " first and modern mayor of the Burgh " ( 1684 ) , and re-elected in 1708 . |
| 27 | The expansion of the Virgin operation , the sharp influx of profits ( the loss of £900,000 reported at the beginning of 1981 had been turned into a profit of £1.5m by the beginning of 1982 ) , and the more aggressive attitude of performers to selling themselves had all put Virgin in a more competitive milieu and frame of mind . |
| 28 | Power which under Edward IV had been distributed through a network of royal servants would now gradually become concentrated in one man . |
| 29 | Power which under Edward IV had been distributed through a network of royal servants would now gradually become concentrated in one man . |
| 30 | Of these the most dramatic had been taken by a Ramallah lawyer , Aziz Shehadeh , who had already demonstrated his independent thinking in 1948 as a leading spirit in the Ramallah Congress of Refugee Delegates ( see above pp. 83–5 ) . |