Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 2 | Speculation during that time that Arafat had been killed focused attention on the lack of an obvious replacement for Arafat as PLO chair and Palestinian leader . |
| 3 | Then attention switched to a Superintendent Miller of pugnacious appearance , who described in clipped and guarded police-speak how twenty-year-old Samantha Abberley had been abducted nine days previously . |
| 4 | The French President , François Mitterrand , confirmed on Oct. 15 that Aoun had been granted political asylum as a " question of honour " and that he would be allowed to remain in the embassy indefinitely . |
| 5 | The two were now inside the grille together and Mena Iskander had been given strict instructions to try to secure Miss Postlethwaite a seat from which she could see Zoser clearly and if possible his wife as well . |
| 6 | In late August González had been granted extraordinary powers which gave him total control over central government , federal agency and state company finances and the administration of enterprises operating under the Public Works and Defence ministries . |
| 7 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 8 | Once the senior clerk in the Chancery , Nigel had been given this assignment as a benefice , a reward for long and faithful service to the Crown . |
| 9 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 10 | Klaus had been elected Civic Forum chair on Oct. 13 , 1990 ( see p. 37791 ) . |
| 11 | Chauthala had been appointed Chief Minister on Dec. 2 , 1989 , replacing his father , Devi Lal , on the latter 's appointment as the central government 's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture [ see pp. 37031 ; 37124 ] . |
| 12 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 13 | ‘ NatWest had been told that merchant banking was a good idea , but I do n't think they thought much beyond that , with the result that we could plough our own furrow , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Mrs Cath Thompson and Mrs Judy Robinson had been told senior officials from Grand Met , which owns 28 pubs in the Darlington area , would travel to the town to hear publicans ' grievances . |
| 15 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |
| 16 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 17 | On May 26 it was announced that Vladimir , Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk had been elected new head of the UOC . |
| 18 | But The Washington Post reported on 22 February that Mr Frohnmayer had been warned last October that he might as well start looking for a new job . |
| 19 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 20 | Twenty one years earlier , Franco had been denied this decoration . |
| 21 | He said 90 per cent of the equipment at Al Atheer had been destroyed this week , though the buildings and laboratories , some with three-foot-thick walls , were built to resist attack . |
| 22 | Miles had been surrounded all evening , it seemed , by droves of tinselled ladies . |
| 23 | The paper claimed Johnson had been tested three times in six days in mid-January , and that at least one of the tests was positive for abnormally high testosterone levels . |
| 24 | Observers from the US National Democratic Institute said that there had been " serious problems " , that voter registration was incomplete , that registers had not been open for inspection , and that Biya had been allocated 142 minutes of coverage on the state-owned television service between Oct. 7 and polling day , while the six opposition candidates shared only 12 minutes . |
| 25 | Brian had been drunk last night , certainly , but there had been no dog 's abuse out of him . |
| 26 | He claimed half-hour warnings to the Samaritans and police in Merseyside had been made two minutes after the bombs were planted . |
| 27 | A post mortem revealed Mrs Bahia had been stabbed 16 times , Mrs Dhandwar 46 times and Avtar had 11 knife wounds . |
| 28 | If B. Hunslett had been born 50 years ago , he would have been an ideal candidate for the Hitler Youth Movement . |
| 29 | But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before . |
| 30 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |