Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , he 'd been planning on cutting the test sessions short , had he ? |
| 2 | They 'd been duped into believing the gag ( nothing may be published without sanction from Lord 's ) protected them . |
| 3 | The resulting report was believed to have established that while Olivetti had not directly breached COCOM guidelines , the company 's technicians working in the Soviet Union may have " upgraded " equipment which the USA claimed was used in developing the Soviet supersonic fighter , the Yak-41 . |
| 4 | The amount of carbohydrate malabsorbed was estimated by comparing the area under the breath hydrogen curve ( BH 2 AUC ) after the rice flour meal with that after lactulose . |
| 5 | The laboratory was sent an object for examination in which the energy trapped in the crystal lattice had been increased by exposing the object to radiation from a cobalt source beforehand . |
| 6 | By the mid-1950s , the actual level of demand being experienced averaged 8 per cent more than the compromise estimate which had been adopted in determining the forward programmes . |
| 7 | He said public feeling had been ignored in cutting the closest casualty service , adding that the nearest A and E department at Harlow was already overloaded . |
| 8 | This argument reflects the official view disseminated after the war had begun again that Edward had been coerced into accepting the treaty while he was under the tutelage of Mortimer and Isabella and that therefore he could not be bound by it . |
| 9 | In Florida on Oct. 20 two members of the rap music band " 2 Live Crew " were acquitted on obscenity charges for having performed songs from their album As Nasty as They Wan na Be , although a retailer had been convicted of selling the record after it had been declared obscene by a federal district judge on June 6 . |
| 10 | Indeed , it emerged that he had been convicted of killing the child of a former girlfriend and had assaulted the defendant and her 3-year-old daughter . |
| 11 | There were , he said , currently only 3,850 people serving sentences in prisons and re-education centres for all types of offences ( roughly 1.2 per 1,000 population ) ; of these 83 had been convicted for attempting the violent overthrow of the state , the most serious political offence . |
| 12 | Under the clampdown all Palestinians , including 50,000 day workers employed in Israel , had been prevented from leaving the Strip for 14 days , the longest quarantine period since the 40-day closure of the Israeli-occupied territories during the Gulf war in early 1991 . |
| 13 | It became clear that nothing had been gained by removing the prince , especially as another ruler had now to be found . |
| 14 | That enabled Senna to qualify in fifth place and on race day his tactical mastery helped him to victory for a record sixth time , Alain Prost had been penalised for jumping the start . |
| 15 | And any hope Laura might have had of at last having that ‘ long talk ’ which Ross had so faithfully promised her had been dashed on opening the front door of the apartment . |
| 16 | Tilda , who had been vexed at missing the actual shipwreck , went straight down to Willis 's cabin to ask him if he would draw her a picture of it . |
| 17 | Nothing had been done towards building the Church yard Dyke of Kilchoman . |
| 18 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 19 | When King Henry had summoned his muster for Scotland , the year after his coronation , Grey had been charged with delivering the summons to his Welsh neighbour , and had withheld it until too late , so that the lord of Glyndyfrdwy was exposed to the charge of being a traitor . |
| 20 | I told him I was in my first year and that my curriculum to date had been based around mastering the basics of Swahili , its grammar , basic vocabulary and syntax . |
| 21 | Waldheim , who had been barred from entering the USA [ see p. 35528 ] and shunned by European governments , had announced in June 1991 that he would not stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 22 | Certain Western journalists had been barred from covering the elections . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow , Maryhill ( Mrs. Fyfe ) spoke eloquently for social justice and said how the Prime Minister had been bounced into supporting the poll tax . |
| 24 | The fact that very little concerted thought had been given to organizing the juvenile labour-market does not mean that no action had been taken at the local level by schools , skilled employment committees , and several or more local education authorities . |
| 25 | And besides the coincidence of his getting a new handler , without explanation , right after the disaster , Coleman could not help remembering the schoolboy password routine he had been given on joining the DIA . |
| 26 | No news had been received from regarding the membership application from . |
| 27 | Third , the number of contaminating displaced amacrine cells in the ganglion cell layer , found in substantial numbers in the peripheral retina , and accounted for in the original counts , was similar to the number of displaced amacrine cells estimated by us in a hemiretina of a monkey in which all ganglion cells had been destroyed by severing the optic tract 2 years earlier . |
| 28 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) had been criticized for risking the lives of six astronauts , merely to launch a satellite which could have been put into orbit more cheaply by an unmanned rocket . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) . |
| 30 | 1–9 Great preparations had been made for observing the total eclipse of the moon but owing to thick cloud only the last of it was seen . |