Example sentences of "and [noun] had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A democratic society was one in which the mass of the people played an active rather than a passive role , and in which the old traditions of deference and subordination had been replaced by a sense of equality among the people — the feeling that one man , or even one person , is as good as another , or at least has an equal right to be respected and listened to . |
| 2 | When the Treaties of Rome creating the Common Market and Euratom had been signed in 1957 , de Gaulle had criticized them and told aides that , if he came back to power , he would " destroy " them . |
| 3 | Both Ter-Petrosyan and Manukyan had been imprisoned between December 1988 and May 1989 for membership of the Karabakh Committee , set up in 1988 to campaign for Armenian control of Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 4 | This latter was in fact the fee farm of the borough , which had come to be permanently assigned to the earls of Salisbury , whose titles and possessions had been conferred on Margaret Pole , daughter of the duke of Clarence . |
| 5 | Individual adjectives and adverbs had been obliterated by a tight foliage of tangled afterthought , single sentences were submerged in blotchily leaved overgrowth , narrow black paths of muddied fear meandered between the rustling syntax , and whole paragraphs were lost beneath the heavy lattice of trunk-thick deletions . |
| 6 | Previously , items such as tea , coffee , cocoa , sugar , jam , canned fruit , salmon and sardines had been sold from the same counters as their perishable equivalents . |
| 7 | He came before the meeting as Chairman of the Legal Aid and Fees Committee , and moved the resolution in sadness and anger — sadness because it soured relations with the Lord Chancellor and the LCD and because time that he would rather have spent constructively had to be wasted on futile bickering , and anger because of the way that barristers and solicitors had been treated by the Government , especially a Government that spoke of the need for the business community to make prompt payment . |
| 8 | On one of his more exotic voyages a skull and crossbones had been tattooed on his shoulder by a Greek sailor who used ordinary blue ink and a sharp pin to stab the design into the skin . |
| 9 | A course of ampicillin and metronidazole had been taken by this subject within four weeks of endoscopy . |
| 10 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 11 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |
| 12 | " Mouses making buns , " Deborah had said the afternoon before when flour and raisins had been discovered in a corner . |
| 13 | He returned to find that his mother and sister had been murdered by the Nazis . |
| 14 | Not realising that the documents on discharge and assessment had been produced in a hurry to meet the government 's suddenly imposed deadline of 31 December , he criticised the two weeks he had been given to consult his 200 consultant colleagues . |
| 15 | Maguire had been acquitted by a Dublin court in February 1990 and Harte had been extradited from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland in 1988 . |
| 16 | By the late 1940s there was a wider range of prepackaged grocery lines available , and improvements had been made in the quality of packaging . |
| 17 | Throughout the Andes their toil and genius had been cut into the land itself . |
| 18 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 19 | A total of 44,000 Soviet troops plus vehicles and materiel had been withdrawn from eastern Germany between Jan. 1 and May 12 , 1991 ; a further 22,000 service personnel left in June . |
| 20 | A joint communiqué issued on May 19 said that the talks between Jiang and Gorbachev had been held in a " friendly , frank and businesslike atmosphere " and had covered " the whole range of Soviet-Chinese relations " . |
| 21 | If thought and study had been restricted to whatever held out the visible prospect of material advantage , that explosive corruscation of human achievement which is European civilisation would never have occurred . |
| 22 | The split followed a particularly fractious session of the national congress , where the gulf between fundis and realos had been emphasized by policy differences on a wide variety of issues . |
| 23 | So wrote Dorothy L. Sayers in 1935 in Gaudy Night , describing the ‘ Shrewsbury ’ graduate whose brilliance and scholarship had been dulled by marriage and children . |
| 24 | Mrs McMullen 's face and neck had been covered in a thick layer of mud and Dr Wayte suggested that an attacker had sat astride her , possibly grabbing soil and pushing it along the body and into her mouth . |
| 25 | An earlier breakthrough by an enemy motor rifle division supported by tanks and artillery had been halted by 6th Armoured Brigade , of which the Royal Scots form a part . |
| 26 | Police and army behaviour and tactics had been improved to some extent , especially in appreciating the need for reform policies rather than simple oppression . |
| 27 | He was taken to a private prison , built to his own design and whose security arrangements and guards had been vetted in advance by the cartel , situated near to his home town of Envigado , now a suburb of the city of Medellín . |
| 28 | They had no reason to lack confidence in their own assessment — Holland was the home of Fokker and KLM had been established since 1919 , each company producing generations of highly competent aeronautical engineers . |
| 29 | Ken and Orton had been introduced by Michael Codron in 1964 . |
| 30 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |