Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [been] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes had been rubbed a raw red by fatigue and cold and had a harried glitter . |
| 2 | Charlemagne thought that the Byzantine emperors had been denied the Roman empire , which had been conferred on him instead ( 800 ) , because they had shown the pride of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , not least in allowing images of themselves to be idolatrously venerated . |
| 3 | When all the books had been read the local reader lost interest . |
| 4 | Even after peasant representation had been abruptly cut in 1907 , and the nobles had been guaranteed a virtual veto against undesirable peasant candidates , the peasant deputies elected to the Third and Fourth Dumas remained unshakeable on the land question . |
| 5 | The demonstrations came temporarily to an end after a personal appeal by Gorbachev on 26 February , but a report that two Azerbaijanis had been killed the previous week led to an anti-Armenian riot on 28–29 February in the oil town of Sumgait in which 32 people were killed and 197 were injured , including more than 100 police officers . |
| 6 | Some thought that fundholding general practitioners had been given a perverse incentive not to spend money on their patients or even to be selective in the types of patient they enrolled on their list . |
| 7 | Daum claimed that his players had been given the new sports designer drug Clenbuterol simply to heal persistent muscle injuries . |
| 8 | Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army . |
| 9 | The men had been denied the agreed consultation period . |
| 10 | He and his wife had been involved in offering support and assistance to the family whose eight children had been removed the previous November . |
| 11 | Formalities over , our routine search of the yacht revealed that , amongst other educational subjects the boys had been given a practical lesson in how to avoid paying the duty on a considerable quantity of wines and spirits . |
| 12 | Mr Tony Newton , the Social Security Secretary , was accused of misleading Parliament when he announced in a written reply that Electronic Data Systems had been given the five-year contract for running the centre at Norcross , Lancashire , ‘ following consideration of a tender ’ . |
| 13 | Nine others had been arrested the previous day , he added , " following a search operation by the army " in which one soldier had been killed and two wounded . |
| 14 | Although its walls had been painted a self-effacing grey , it still stood out like some exotic folly among the neighbouring tenement houses . |