Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] at the end " in BNC.
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1 | He left behind him at Faber and Faber a most efficient young secretary , Miss Valerie Fletcher , who had been appointed at the end of August . |
2 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
3 | Japan had assumed control over Korea , Formosa , the Pescadores and the southern half of Sakhalin , which had been obtained at the end of the Russo Japanese War in 1905 . |
4 | I would therefore hold that where there is a split trial or more accurately , in relation to a non-jury case , a split hearing , any party may appeal without leave against an order made at the end of one part if he could have appealed against such an order without leave if both parts had been heard together and the order had been made at the end of the complete hearing . |
5 | John Major told the Commons at Prime Minister 's Question Time that none of the 16 arrested at the factory , where 340 had been sacked at the end of January , had been a Timex worker . |
6 | It had been repeated at the end of that century by Leibniz , who attempted in the collections of treaties and other documents which he published , the Codex Juris Centium Diplomaticus ( 1693 ) and Mantissa Codicis ( 1700 ) , to provide a basis for it . |
7 | The investigation had gathered momentum in mid-April , following leads provided during his questioning by Mario Chiesa , who had been arrested at the end of February [ see p. 38824 ] . |
8 | All except Bir Zeit ( on the West Bank ) had now opened or were preparing to open , but Bir Zeit had been informed at the end of August that its closure would be extended by three months for failing to ensure that its campus would not be used as a centre for anti-Israeli activity . |
9 | JUST WHEN you thought that too many of them had been offed at the end of the first one , out rides the sequel . |
10 | JUST WHEN you thought that too many of them had been offed at the end of the first one , out rides the sequel . |
11 | Only a fraction of Rozanov 's wonderful improvisations had been captured at the end of the tape . |
12 | On Jan. 3 Swedish radio also reported that three diplomats at the Chinese embassy in Stockholm had been expelled at the end of 1990 for spying on Chinese students living in Sweden , while China expelled a Swedish diplomat in retaliation . |