Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can certainly agree with my hon. Friend — that incident was most regrettable , particularly in light of the fact that the human rights record of Indonesia had been improving in recent years . |
| 2 | While Edward had been preoccupied in northern France , the English position in Aquitaine had deteriorated . |
| 3 | According to Jordanian officials Hafez had been recruited in early 1990 during a training course in Germany when he was approached by a female agent for Mossad ( the Israeli intelligence service ) posing as a US civilian . |
| 4 | It was the first time that 36-year-old Gilbey had been seen in public since being named as the man on the phone in the love-tapes scandal . |
| 5 | England had been swamped in recent years by publications of every sort on birds , and Gould was not the only one to feel the pressure of increasing competition . |
| 6 | it is clear from the statement of claim that the er plaintiffs retained the defendants from about the ninth of September to act in relation to the purchase of this wine bar which was then known as er the plaintiffs were obtaining finance from the National Westminster Bank in order to purchase this business and the plaintiff Mr had been engaged in long standing discussions with his bank from the earlier part of nineteen eighty five with a view to er agreeing financing facilities for the purchase of the various opportunities that preven present themselves and er he will say and that he makes clear in his witness statement erm that he certainly had understood that from these negotiations the National Westminster Bank were prepared to provide the financing that he required to run this business . |
| 7 | A commission headed by B. P. Mandal had been established in late 1978 to investigate the conditions of the socially and educationally backward classes ( SEBCs ) . |
| 8 | There were several red-tipped pins protruding from it and an area of Soho had been ringed in red marker pen . |
| 9 | Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab . |
| 10 | The UUUC had been formed in early December to bring together Westite Unionists , Vanguard Unionists and Democratic Unionists for electioneering and propaganda purposes . |
| 11 | Both Stoph and Kessler had been arrested in late 1989 in connection with corruption investigations [ see p. 37107 ] , but had been released in January and February 1990 respectively . |
| 12 | The agreements on EFR had been signed in early 1989 and in October of the same year outline permission was given for the building of a £300 million ‘ demonstration ’ reprocessing plant at Dounreay to recycle EFR 's spent plutonium fuel . |
| 13 | Linford , despite his shenanigans , was quietly confident ; Ray Stewart had been improving in recent weeks , as had the fast-starting American Lee Macrae . |
| 14 | Voice of Ethiopia radio reported on Jan. 9 that the remains of several thousand people massacred during the 17-year regime of former President Mengistu Haile Mariam had been found in mass graves near Debre Zeit , 40 km south of the capital , Addis Ababa . |