Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Sharpness Docks themselves became an annual security zone after the dockside cranes had been occupied by opponents of the dumping . |
| 2 | Allegations by Roman Catholic bishops and some non-governmental organizations had been followed by reports of the murder of UN employees in September and October [ see pp. 39132 ; 39181 ] . |
| 3 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 4 | The ‘ Illustrious ’ had been subjected to vicious bombing only a short time previously , and the defending fighters had been battered by swarms of Me109s and Macchis . |
| 5 | Uniform was issued for the first time : until then , only caps had been issued to crews . |
| 6 | The looms had been replaced with lathes , which responded to urgent and sometimes panic requests to anything from shell casings to aircraft , gun or radio parts . |
| 7 | In March 1898 Leslie Johnson , the general treasurer , reported to an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee that the union was roughly £pound1,600 in debt and that the Glasgow , Dublin , Cork , Swansea , Aberdeen and Ardrossan branches had been closed with wages owing to twelve or more branch officials . |
| 8 | Birth weights had been recorded in pounds ( 2.2 lb=1 kg ) and were converted to the nearest gram . |
| 9 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 10 | At the start of this year over one and a half million council-built homes had been sold to tenants under a scheme which let tenants of more than two years buy their homes at a discount . |
| 11 | Bushes had been used as toilets , and there was evidence of drug abuse . |
| 12 | We should be trying to enhance cooperative arrangements of referral and support between health and social work departments and private homes , and Mike O'Reilly did n't actually say that they had that problem but he said that their clients had been referred by GPs or by the psychogeriatric service . |
| 13 | It also , of course , raised expectations which demanded a fast reaction , so a system which demanded confirmation that responses had been made by partners or managers to issues or weaknesses which were identified was developed . |
| 14 | The defendants had been employed as executives by the plaintiffs . |
| 15 | Some of the plates had been sold to publishers and other artists during Rembrandt 's lifetime , and they , no doubt , are also responsible for at least some of the prints executed before 1669 , the year of Rembrandt 's death . |
| 16 | Negotiations over a joint fishing agreement between the two countries had been disrupted by incidents between Trinidadian fishermen and Venezuelan coastguards which had led to the death of one Trinidadian in October 1989 . |
| 17 | The Lakeland fells had been baked for weeks under cloudless skies ; the becks were dry and the tarns warm enough to give refreshing dips . |
| 18 | So the brothels had been succeeded by houses of convenience , where street-women could rent a room — by the hour , the day , the month . |
| 19 | Small took out a knife and skinned the lambs : bone and sinew were mangled behind their necks , and there was much blood , showing that the lambs had been killed by foxes , rather than taken as carrion by crows . |
| 20 | The carrot cakes had been reduced to crumbs and the coffee cups were empty . |
| 21 | By I7 October 1983 six marines had been killed by snipers but Reagan claimed that their presence in the Lebanon was ‘ vitally important to the security of the United States and the Western world ’ . |
| 22 | Though the making of contracts with crews had been required of shipowners and masters for more than a century , these had , it seems , been corrupted by the inclusion of conditions which even the courts regarded as outrageous . |
| 23 | It was our unclouded commitment to women , and greater insistence that the fundamentals of sexism should be tackled without compromise , that brought youth service attention back to the young women who for decades had been excluded by boys and men . |
| 24 | He suggested that , given the nature of the wounds , it seemed that knuckledusters and razors had been used on members of the public . |
| 25 | Sixty six of the vaccine packages had been exposed to temperatures >10°C . |
| 26 | Even some washhouses had been razed to stumps , people never hung their washing out . |
| 27 | Although the existence of nitrate pollution and its health implications had been known for decades , in the UK it was not thought to be much of a problem until 1984 . |
| 28 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 29 | During a debate on March 4 on the final report of the Commission for the Investigation of the Events of Nov. 17 , 1989 ( when student protests had been crushed by police — see p. 37026 ; see p. 37737 for initial report ) , the Federal Assembly approved legislation to allow Czechoslovak citizens access to files kept on them by the StB . |
| 30 | Those who dismissed the movies were also dishonest in the sense that they very rarely conceded that the whole tone of feature films had been moulded by politicians and largely middle-class pressure groups and religious organizations who had ceaselessly clamoured for censorship and for films to be morally edifying and uplifting . |