Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 2 | Some US$570 million in military aid to Pakistan had been cut off since 1990 under US legislation requiring such a cut-off unless the President certified to Congress that Pakistan was not developing nuclear weapons [ see p. 37764 ] . |
| 3 | Leeds and Cleckheaton had been cordoned off by troops to stop the crowds from getting in . |
| 4 | Payton had been hauled down by Penney , so justice was seen to be done when he hit Mohan 's free-kick past Veysey . |
| 5 | The Goths had been forced out of central Europe by Hun pressure from the east . |
| 6 | Mrs Singh had now effectively become cut off from her children 's education just as Balbinder had been cut off from local peer group relationships . |
| 7 | Six small unions in Gaza had been closed down by Israel in 1967 , and only allowed to re-open in 1979 , on condition they neither held fresh elections nor recruited new members . |
| 8 | Its worst loss of nerve was over a Channel 4 programme MI5 's Official Secrets in which Cathy Massiter , a former MI5 case officer responsible for surveillance of the peace movement , alleged that her investigations into CND had been passed on to government ministers for party-political use . |
| 9 | Ireland had been slipping out of Britain 's grasp — Sinn Fein had almost swept the board in the local elections , they had set up their own provisional government in Dublin and in some areas of the country theirs was the only authority recognised — and , on top of all that , in September alone there had been over two thousand IRA arms raids . |
| 10 | ( The six-county state of Northern Ireland had been set up under the Government of Ireland Act , 1920 ) . |
| 11 | The Whigs , however , remained insistent that there should be no peace until the Bourbons had been driven out of Spain . |
| 12 | The argument was not without precedent : in 1316 Louis X 's daughter Jeanne had been passed over in favour of his brother Philip V , and Philip 's own daughters had been excluded in 1321 in favour of his youngest brother , Charles IV . |
| 13 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 14 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 15 | The Duke turned abruptly back , intending to inform his lordship that he did not permit duelling among his officers , but Rossendale and Jane had been swallowed up in the crowd . |
| 16 | Patrick and Jane had been put up in a room in the Shelbourne Hotel which faced St Stephen 's Green . |
| 17 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
| 18 | Russell Reynolds had been called in on occasion , and a smaller firm — seen as a very good specialist — for specific assignments in commodity finance . |
| 19 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 20 | A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery . |
| 21 | Yes and then of course you get business organizations , the and much business is now internationally based , we 've , we recognize this recently from the erm the purchase of Rover by B M W erm but of course the big companies have operated for long across international boundaries , whether it be oil companies like Texaco or chemical companies like I C I erm or MacDonalds , you know one of the symbols that erm lets you know Russia had been opened up to the international community was the erm presence of a MacDonalds ' erm shop in Moscow . |
| 22 | ‘ If John Barnes had been going through on goal and he was brought down by John Humphrey , he would have been sent off . |
| 23 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 24 | Only a few days earlier England had been knocked out of the World Cup by West Germany . |
| 25 | Or rather the house in Mouncy Street had been taken over by a succession of dead bodies . |
| 26 | Now America is the hottest market ; institutions that find Wall Street overvalued are waking up to the attraction of overseas investment . |
| 27 | The Cathedral of the Assumption on Red Square had been demolished along with other redundant relics of reactionary religion . |
| 28 | By 1863 , he too had gone and Kings Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins , an industry that was to become important for Painswick . |
| 29 | And I remember the family story of how on the eve of my grandmother 's wedding day her elder brother Ted had been locked out by her father and had broken a window to get in . |
| 30 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |