Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Diet reconvened on Jan. 24 , the Prime Minister sought to fend off charges that Kyowa money had been used by Abe to assist Miyazawa 's campaign for the LDP leadership in October 1991 [ see p. 38558 ] . |
| 2 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 9 reported that although the decision to cancel Netherlands aid had been taken by President Suharto , it was widely supported by the government and bureaucracy . |
| 3 | By 1987 52 per cent of the West Bank and approximately 30 per cent of the Gaza Strip had been transferred to Jewish control . |
| 4 | Deportation orders against four senior Fatah activists in the Gaza Strip had been issued on March 24 . |
| 5 | In like manner the claim of a Staffordshire jury that a large part of Cannock Forest had been created by Henry II was proved false by earlier records ; nevertheless their verdict was accepted and Cannock Forest much reduced in extent . |
| 6 | While it freed him from a form of dependency — his succession to the LDP leadership had been achieved with the faction 's support — it also meant that the future of his premiership would depend on the skill with which he was able to balance the party 's competing factions — including his own — all of which were of roughly equal strength . |
| 7 | It was 1968 and the Crystal Palace track had been converted to Tartan in readiness for the Mexico City Olympic Games which were to be held on synthetic surfacing for the first time . |
| 8 | But a Conservative peer , Lord McColl of Dulwich , vice-president of the College of Health , said the original NHS Act had been passed in the teeth of BMA opposition . |
| 9 | Might the Rangers in the Philippines have saved the fleet if the approaches to Leyte Gulf had been studded with mines controlled from the shore ? |
| 10 | His immunity as a Bundestag deputy had been lifted on March 19 . |
| 11 | In England revolution had been avoided by the widening of the magic circle to admit the bourgeoisie . |
| 12 | The lifeboats were recalled after the crew of Breydon Merchant had been winched to safety by two helicopters from Manston and Lee-on-Solent . |
| 13 | Near Exeter , the old Exeter to Crediton road had been doubled in width ( from nine and a half to twenty feet ) and so made necessary a new bridge over the Creedy . |
| 14 | He was lied to , conned into believing that the Bad Schwarzendorn operation had been approved by the Army . |
| 15 | By 1988 Field End had been joined by another specialist children 's respite care unit at Leigh Road . |
| 16 | Until the mid-eighties Denmark Farm had been run as an intensive stock farm which , inevitably , had produced a degraded environment for wildlife — wet meadows and marshes drained ; traditional hay meadows ploughed and reseeded to rye grass ; all wild corners cleared ; and an old orchard , hedgerow and two-acre bluebell wood grubbed out . |
| 17 | Club secretary Bryan Ayres confirmed that the Underhill switchboard had been jammed by fans ringing in to voice their displeasure at Fry 's sacking . |
| 18 | Club secretary Bryan Ayres confirmed the Underhill switchboard had been jammed by fans , angry at Fry 's sacking . |
| 19 | The whole South Sussex team had been driving round the country in a vast aluminium horse box , evidently the latest thing in America , and Kevin had provided each player with four top-class ponies . |
| 20 | The Agence France-Presse news agency reported on June 7 that a professor and several students at Beijing University had been arrested following incidents on campus . |
| 21 | In January , 1990 , Radio Prague 's Havana correspondent had been expelled for " unobjective " reporting . |
| 22 | The UN programme had been halted in December after the government alleged that UNITA forces were disrupting the convoys . |
| 23 | It also noted that the Brady plan had been applied on a slow-moving voluntary basis which depended on the goodwill of creditor governments and banks , and claimed that in the absence of such goodwill debtor governments had had no alternative but to declare moratoriums as a means of attracting attention to their situation . |
| 24 | A local case which produced front-page headlines — ‘ Vicious schemer ’ is jailed for life SHAM TEARS OF AN EVIL WIFE — described how a former Coventry man who had moved to become a licensee in a Yorkshire pub had been killed by his 32-year-old wife and her barman lover . |
| 25 | The Geneva Conference had been attended by many SE Asia countries who wished to see a split Vietnam . |
| 26 | Two years earlier , Britain 's warmest November day had been recorded in Clwyd at 21.7°C/71°F . |
| 27 | The last two carriages of the 10.20am London-to-Oxford train had been reserved for the royal party . |
| 28 | Perhaps the NSS paper had been acquired in a job lot from Chernobyl . |
| 29 | Iraq 's decision to bow to UN pressure had been preceded by a robust defence of its policies by the Deputy Prime Minister , Tariq Aziz . |
| 30 | The Warri refinery had reportedly cut output to 80,000 barrels per day after power supply problems , while the Port Harcourt refinery had been disrupted by routine maintenance work . |