Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 2 | A belief in Chinese superiority stemming from a closer approximation to the natural order of the cosmos governed China 's relations with neighbouring peoples , which over centuries had been conducted on a tributary basis . |
| 3 | Several ornaments from a displayed collection of unpleasant little figurines had been swept off a small table . |
| 4 | One of the large bedrooms had been turned into a nursery and it seemed to hold every conceivable toy a child could have . |
| 5 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 6 | On returning to Cyprus that spring , he found that the march of technology had continued in his absence and that all the CpFNS field offices had been hooked into a central computerized database installed by Link Systems , Ltd , a US government ‘ cut-out ’ company set up to carry out the contract for UNFDAC . |
| 7 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 8 | Food would be marked with a " P " to indicate that pesticides had been used on a product . |
| 9 | However , it was only in 1929 that a separate Secretariat for Latin America was formed within the Comintern 's Moscow administration ; hitherto relations with Latin American Communist parties had been handled through a ‘ Latin Secretariat ’ which also covered Southern Europe . |
| 10 | By Dec. 20 at least 16 political parties had been launched including a group calling itself FORD " A " . |
| 11 | Mr Abdul Rehman , the local polling agent for Janata Dal , told how his supporters had been attacked by a marauding band of Congress workers , some of them with guns . |
| 12 | During the OAS visit the dead bodies of three known Aristide supporters had been found in a Port-au-Prince morgue . |
| 13 | Within a year of Courtaulds ' takeover of the ailing business , heavy losses had been transformed into a FF3m ( £375,000 ) profit . |
| 14 | Because of the recession , stockpiles of ‘ new ’ cars had been waiting for a buyer for up to two years . |
| 15 | A final decision about segmentation would not be made until at least some words had been integrated into a higher level . |
| 16 | Forest 's last words had been accompanied by a guffaw , and Edward 's half-formed comment was drowned by the slamming of the door as the grinning man left . |
| 17 | After £2,067 had been handed over to the District , branches had been left with a net income of £1,492 , just one pound less than the £1,493 spent on publicity , room rents and other local organisation and administration . |
| 18 | And in their survey of 9–13 middle schools , the HMI argued that work was of a higher standard where there was a greater use of subject teachers , and where those subjects had been studied in a major way in higher education by the teachers concerned . |
| 19 | These pictures had been reprinted as a book , A Time that Was . |
| 20 | An offer last August of 3% for 12 months had been followed by a lengthy period when voluntary severance had been negotiated with the Bank . |
| 21 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
| 22 | In fact , measurement of pepsinogen concentrations had been proposed as a method for screening of gastritis . |
| 23 | He said his flat on the estate had been robbed by a man whose knees had been smashed with a baseball bat after falling foul of a loan shark . |
| 24 | ( Whereas 62 per cent of council elementary schools had been reorganized into a junior/senior pattern , only 16 per cent of the voluntary provision had been so reshaped ) . |
| 25 | The fifth and sixth defendants had been employed by a group of companies of which the plaintiffs were a part in senior positions for short periods before being dismissed . |
| 26 | The background to this injunction , as is apparent from its terms , was that the defendants had been ordered by a subpoena duces tecum issued in New York on 24 July 1990 to produce the documents referred to in the injunction . |
| 27 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 28 | Both Isobel 's parents had been killed in a motor accident , and Peter Dawson had obtained leave from his unit in France to attend their funeral in Wales . |
| 29 | It was as though the unwanted debris from a dozen mansions had been dumped in a single , overcrowded space . |
| 30 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |