Example sentences of "had [adv] been [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the October general election , John Malecela , a former high commissioner to the United Kingdom , was appointed Prime Minister on Nov. 8 , replacing Joseph Warioba , who had hitherto been considered an eventual successor to President Ali Hassan Mwinyi . |
| 2 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |
| 3 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 4 | As no man can serve two masters we had long been told no wise general tries to fight on two fronts . |
| 5 | ( In the Soviet Union a draft law allowing all citizens to obtain a passport quickly had already been given a first reading , and the Soviet delegate estimated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 Soviet citizens could decide to emigrate " in the first two to three years " . ) |
| 6 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 7 | Four political parties had already been allocated an exact number of seats in the Little Hural from party preferences returned during the July elections [ see table below ] . |
| 8 | More particularly , and because Vietnam had already been accorded the key position in Southeast Asia , ‘ Soviet domination of the potential power of Eurasia , whether achieved by armed aggression or by political and subversive means , would be strategically and politically unacceptable to the US ’ . |
| 9 | He was 44 years old and he had already been acclaimed the First Great American painter . |
| 10 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 11 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 12 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 13 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 14 | For another it was learning French at evening classes when she had always been considered a complete duffer at languages . |
| 15 | Edward , on the other hand , had always been accorded a mysterious potency : ‘ They do so depend on him at Croxford . ’ |
| 16 | Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works . |
| 17 | The limits of what had formerly been considered the proper role of the state had changed . |
| 18 | A phenomenon from the eyewitness testimony literature which had often been considered an extreme effect of attention focusing in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis is known as ‘ weapon focus ’ ( Johnson & Scott , 1976 ; Kramer , Buckhout & Eugenio , 1990 ; E. F. Loftus , 1979 ; E. F. Loftus , G. R. Loftus & Messo , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |