Example sentences of "[noun pl] had be [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the special character combinations had been replaced the file was iteratively refined . |
| 2 | But the officers had been given no orders to occupy these positions , so they simply returned to their lines to await instructions . |
| 3 | After some initial problems had been overcome the Garratts were outstandingly successful , running on all gauges from 2 feet to 5 feet 6 inches on gradients up to 1 in 20 or more , usually at modest speeds on heavily curved and graded routes , but capable of 75–80 m.p.h. on the Algerian expresses which were headed by probably the fastest articulated locomotives ( 4–6–2+2–6–4 ) ever built . |
| 4 | IF THE inflation figures had been published a couple of days earlier , the Labour party would no doubt have made the most of a fall which was far short of expectations . |
| 5 | The stretchers had been brought the couple of hundred yards from the hospital . |
| 6 | On Nov. 16 he testified before a parliamentary committee that orders had been given a month previously to freeze " Operation Gladio " . |
| 7 | All hospital patients had been given a diagnosis of primary depression uncomplicated by any underlying condition such as alcoholism , but were also given a full clinical interview ( PSE ) by the research psychiatrist . |
| 8 | Under her crumpled linen skirts had been concealed the pants . |
| 9 | The manager Willie Ormond claimed the players had been given the night off and therefore a breach of discipline had not taken place . |
| 10 | Once the check-outs had been completed the pilots and planes moved to Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego where they were put aboard the USS Yorktown for the carrier filming . |
| 11 | Prior to this meeting , which lasted 8 hours , members had been sent a draft constitution , the handiwork of Charles Gorham , who had consulted and taken the advice of his solicitor , Mr R S Wigin of Leeds . |
| 12 | The Full Federal Court allowed the appeal on the ground that there had been no breach of natural justice as the respondents had been given a hearing and , in the opinion of one Judge , had not been deprived of any present benefit or advantage . |
| 13 | In the two days since the men had been gone the girls had become close friends , beginning from the moment Joanna had knocked timidly on the solar door soon after Guy had left . |
| 14 | The trousers were tucked into high boots , and Rostov saw that his son 's eyelids had been stained a shade of silver-blue . |
| 15 | In the description phase subjects viewed each film split into five second sections , after five seconds had been viewed the experimenter paused the video recording showing the subject a blank blue field , the subject then had unlimited time to describe the situation they had viewed and the events that had taken place . |
| 16 | While the police had been offered a rise of 9.25 per cent , ambulance staff , who earned only £10,000 after qualification , were being offered 6.5 per cent . |
| 17 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 18 | By the accidents of distance and dates of birth both the Kiwi Keith and the Mackenzie houses had been spared the effects of war and neither knew the pain of loss or the sadness of wounds in young bodies . |
| 19 | If the local authorities had been given the money that has been poured into the private sector to be spent on domiciliary packages , more home helps , special care attendance and occupational budgets to provide aids and adaptations for people in their own homes , we could have saved the Government and the country millions of pounds . |
| 20 | In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 21 | Milton had written a letter to one of the Stirlingshire lairds , assuring him of his friendship and advising him that one of the laird 's sons had been given a post as a salt officer . |
| 22 | Since monetary and fiscal policies had been assigned the role of guaranteeing the maintenance of full employment , the traditional neoclassical preoccupation with efficiency in the face of scarcity could come back into its own . |
| 23 | Apparently it had been near here , not in Bahdu , that the Greek merchants had been killed the year before . |
| 24 | I began to enumerate , but after three operations had been mentioned the doctor said , ‘ Oh yes , yes , yes ! ’ and wrote quickly on his pad . |
| 25 | The dragon-ships had been promised no opposition . |
| 26 | Happily all four engines had been spared the attention of the Ju88 but I was soon to learn from the flight engineer that the aileron control cable had been severed and he went into the wing root to find the two ends and make some sort of connection . |
| 27 | Both victims had been shot a number of times by an antique revolver known to have belonged to one of the victims . |