Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1935 Uruguay acceded to Brazilian pressure to break links with Moscow because of allegations , apparently not unfounded , that the Soviet trading office in Montevideo had been used as a conduit for funds to the Brazilian insurgents . |
| 2 | When Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence adviser , Ion Pacepa , defected to the United States in 1978 , he claimed that Ceauşescu had been engaged in a long-term strategic plan codenamed ‘ Red Horizon ’ . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the Trotskyists themselves split , on the issue of whether or not to co-operate with the ICP , and , just as the VNQDD had been destroyed as a competitor with the Communist Party by French repression after Yen-Bay , so the French colonial government , shortly after war had begun in 1939 , rounded up virtually the entire leadership of the Trotskyist International Communist League , as it was then called : a coup from which the movement never recovered . |
| 4 | A joint communiqué issued on May 19 said that the talks between Jiang and Gorbachev had been held in a " friendly , frank and businesslike atmosphere " and had covered " the whole range of Soviet-Chinese relations " . |
| 5 | This incident was some time after the Red Sand Towers had been used as a pirate radio station ( Radio 390 ) . |
| 6 | During the war , ABPC had been confined to a small studio at Welwyn , producing low-budget crime melodramas . |
| 7 | At the beginning of his term as General Secretary , Brezhnev had been seen as a leader pursuing the art of the possible but by the end of his life , his leadership was seen , more pointedly , as the avoidance of the necessary . |
| 8 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 9 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 10 | For example , there was the Australian edition of the racy Sunday Sport which claimed that Kylie had been mauled by a killer shark while skin diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 11 | Previously , Mr Ntoni-Nzinga had been studying for a doctorate in theology and anthropology in Manchester , UK . |
| 12 | The detective would n't be expecting two of them and , when Dana had been appearing as a model in London , Claudia would have been in Solihull . |
| 13 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 14 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 15 | The USSR , however , mindful of the fact that Cuba had been made into a prominent campaign issue by both contenders for the US presidency , paid no heed to the wave of Cuban nationalisations of US property during August-October 1960 . |
| 16 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 17 | She did n't know that Aisling had been born with a severe ‘ port wine stain ’ . |
| 18 | The CNAA had been created as a policy instruments to increase access to ‘ higher ’ or university-level education outside the universities , and simultaneously to guarantee or raise standards in appropriate institutions . |
| 19 | On 25 March 1988 , after North had been charged with a number of criminal acts , Reagan said : |
| 20 | It was reported to the Group that their request to the Council of the Law Society to commission a firm of management consultants to make an examination of the property market in Scotland had been remitted to a Special Committee of the Society comprising representatives of its Purchase and Sale of Heritage and Professional Practice Committees . |
| 21 | It was five races into the championship before it was discovered Jonny had been driving with a broken chassis , which made it impossible to get his car to handle properly . |
| 22 | I believe the technological revolution would have been better served if Blackett had been appointed to a real job , rather than to an advisory one to Frank Cousins , who became Minister of Technology . |
| 23 | In the seventh minute , just after Broddle had been booked for a tackle on Derek Ferguson , Ian Ferguson had cruel luck with a header that hit the post . |
| 24 | Jamie Hill , prosecuting , said Sigsworth had been admitted as a voluntary patient to St Luke 's Hospital in Middlesbrough after presenting himself at North Ormesby police station . |
| 25 | We 'd been certain that Frank had been kept with a Frenchman in the apartment we 'd been in from February to early May . |
| 26 | Charley Hoskins had been trained as a blacksmith but , like so many Saltash boys , had his heart set on the sea and it was when he had joined the Royal Navy that he met Ben Bellaser . |
| 27 | Shortly before the attack , Mick had been dancing at a Singles Night at the Wiltshire Hotel . |
| 28 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 29 | But , all those years ago , she simply had n't been experienced enough to realise that , despite those wonderful and ecstatic nights of passion , her marriage to Ross had been founded on a disastrously thin layer of quicksand ; a relationship which would crack and disintegrate under the first onslaught of any stress and tension . |
| 30 | By the second half of the 1950s , thanks to foreign loans , the economy was showing signs of recovery , and Spain had been admitted as a member of the United Nations , in December 1955 . |