Example sentences of "[vb past] had been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the branches studied had been influenced by this political directive . |
| 2 | The charges arose from a sexual encounter between Smith and Patricia Bowman in March 1991 [ see p. 38139 ] , which he claimed had been based upon mutual consent . |
| 3 | In Exeter the wool staplers moved quickly in 1787 to imprison some striking wool sorters who were seeking to advance their wages , but at several other times since the statute they employed had been enacted in 1726 , they had conceded advances sought by their journeymen . |
| 4 | Further inquiries were now being made and the substance seized had been sent for scientific analysis . |
| 5 | That ache that she thought had been satiated for all time was back within her . |
| 6 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 7 | He was simply lucky , perhaps , that the land which he sold had been allocated for residential purposes in a period when a new suburban city was coming into being . |
| 8 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 9 | On Dec. 5 Japan extended a grant-in-aid worth 4,876 million yen which officials said had been promised in 1988 and therefore did not affect Japan 's temporary ban on economic co-operation . |
| 10 | On April 3 a bomb which police suspected had been planted by Sikh separatists exploded near a Hindu religious procession in Batala , killing some 35 people . |