Example sentences of "had [been] shown [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour frontbenchers said they had been shown a note written by Sir Terence Heiser , Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment , to Nicholas Ridley , the then Secretary of State . |
| 2 | Gay men who had been shown a stiff cock in a public lavatory by a policeman , and were then promptly arrested for showing an interest , were n't slow to remind us that , thanks to Queen Victoria , lesbianism was not illegal . |
| 3 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 4 | Earlier the court had been shown a quantity of bricks and stones some of which were said to be bloodstained , and a heavy iron bar . |
| 5 | Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals . |
| 6 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 7 | Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals . |
| 8 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 9 | Admiral Mountbatten and Professor Zuckerman had visited the United States in the autumn of 1959 and had been shown the massive underground silos of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles , and had concluded , quite rightly , that Britain had neither the resources nor the need to enter the land-based ICBM league . |
| 10 | Jesus once said that those who had been shown the greatest mercy by God were the ones who loved him the most . |
| 11 | ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good . |
| 12 | Malekith had been shown the secret trade routes of the Dwarfs during his period as Bel Shanaar 's ambassador , and he now used that knowledge to his own benefit . |
| 13 | Louise Taylor , the girl in the picture that Duncan had been shown the night before , was now dressed in an ill-fitting cheap Russian dress . |
| 14 | When he had been shown the study he drew in Sergeant Fenniway , pointedly shut the door , and said again ‘ By gum ! ’ |
| 15 | Mr Allan denied the council had been obstructive and said several residents who had visited the authority had been shown the plans . |