Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [adv] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM had indeed been making OSI product announcements since summer 1985 , as had its rivals , notably DEC . |
| 2 | A few days later the national press carried the headlines that the UM plants in the Midlands had now been made idle as a consequence of the Merseyside strike . |
| 3 | While putting these changes in place , the BBC had also been developing local radio . |
| 4 | Up to this time , Leith had not been considered suitable for some of the larger excursion steamers . |
| 5 | By the end of 1989 Panama had also been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of arrears of $150,000,000 which had accumulated on loans of $337,000,000 from that body . |
| 6 | The world outside Whitehall had not been standing still since Thorneycroft took over . |