Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trial of Winnie Mandela had been marked by intense media and public interest , and was widely seen as having brought about the collapse of her personal popularity among ANC followers . |
| 2 | The apothecary had lied and Lady Eleanor had been murdered by other means . |
| 3 | The last of these was ironic , not to say cynical , for much of the manpower used in the building of the Valle de los Caídos had been provided by political prisoners , who were allowed to redeem part of their sentences in what was , effectively , a labour camp . |
| 4 | Kalm was very impressed by the stoves at Chelsea , ‘ all arranged in the way discribed in Dictionary ’ , and he learned from Miller that two orangeries in England had been burnt by tan overheating ( the fermenting bark of the oak and a by-product from the tanning industry ) . |
| 5 | The next morning the Prior brought a letter for Corbett ; a simple note which said that Benstede had been attacked by unknown assailants the previous morning , that he was safe but advised Corbett to be most cautious . |
| 6 | On this occasion Beaton thought that the movie would join the list of those that had ‘ paralyzed the box office ’ because Vidor had been forced by United Artists to film Elmer Rice 's stage play on a very confined studio set , the implication being that this movie of gossip , family disagreements , sidewalk philosophy , and sociological theorizing needed a more realistic and expansive setting . |
| 7 | In rejecting the full Copernican scheme , Tycho had been swayed by biblical considerations and by the failure to detect stellar parallax , which , if Copernicus were right , would entail an enormous gap between the outermost planet and the closest of the stars — a gap that he , and Catholic scholars too , found unacceptable on aesthetic grounds . |
| 8 | The flight to Paris had been punctuated by periodic bouts of turbulence and consequently neither of them had managed to get much sleep . |
| 9 | Support for the DLP had declined since its 1986 victory under the late Errol Barrow , and the forthcoming vote was seen as a key test of confidence in the leadership of Sandiford , Barrow 's successor , whose stewardship of the DLP had been marked by factional fighting . |
| 10 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 11 | ( Bush had been forced by Congressional pressure to abandon his controversial proposals to reduce capital gains tax in 1990 — see p. 37036 . ) |
| 12 | However , in January 1948 Don Juan had been advised by American representatives to mend his fences with Franco , and in August he accepted an invitation to meet Franco on board the latter 's yacht , the Azor . |
| 13 | The struggle for Cyprus had been eased by British acceptance of the Sovereign Base concept , though the Zurich Agreement between Greece and Turkey , which enabled Britain to grant Cyprus its independence , was not signed until February 1959 . |
| 14 | In July 1939 Nizan publicly proclaimed that France had been betrayed by fascist infiltrators and fascist collaborators . |
| 15 | When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’ |
| 16 | It is difficult to resist the conclusion that after 1208 Innocent had been outmanoeuvred by certain forces beyond his control . |
| 17 | At its first congress in Oradea on April 21-22 , the HDUR 's chairman , Geza Domokos , said that the incorporation of Transylvania within Romania had been decided by international treaties , but that the terms of those treaties concerning minority rights had not been observed . |
| 18 | The observations at Greenwich had been made by different observers at different times , using techniques that depended , to some degree , on the observer 's skill and expertise in his chosen technique . |
| 19 | Desperate food shortages continued in Tskhinvali , and it was reported at the end of March that the town 's vital road link to North Ossetia had been cut by Georgian armed bands . |
| 20 | On March 29 Moscow radio reported that almost all Ossete villages in South Ossetia had been razed by Georgian militants , and on the following day there were ominous reports from officials in North Ossetia that 12,000 armed Georgians were massing for an assault on Tskhinvali and surrounding districts still under Ossete control . |
| 21 | Abroad the Americans were bombing in Vietnam , Hanoi had been hit by American fighters . |
| 22 | Political unrest and opposition-organized strikes in April had been provoked by economic hardship , for which the opposition had blamed the Nepali Congress Party . |
| 23 | At the mention of John 's child , Liza had been racked by renewed guilt . |
| 24 | For most of the previous decade Mendoros had been employed by Hellenic Aerospace Industry , a partnership between the Greek state and three US companies : Lockheed the airframe builder , General Electric the engine manufacturer , and Westinghouse which knew all about instrumentation and controls . |
| 25 | In 1984 rather more than forty per cent of the total land area of England and Wales had been defined by local planning authorities as being within an area of special control . |
| 26 | Eadric Streona 's raid on St David 's in 1012 was not the first English incursion of Æthelred 's reign , and Cnut had been opposed by Welsh allies of Edmund Ironside in 1016 , and felt it necessary to settle several Scandinavian earls in the west midlands , one of whom , Eglaf , ravaged Dyfed in 1022 ; it is Welsh , not English , sources which record his flight from England after Cnut 's death . |