Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action had been struck out at first instance , an appeal to the Court of Appeal had failed but a petition for leave to appeal to the House of Lords was still pending . |
| 2 | The Guam law had been struck down by lower courts and the Supreme Court had refused to review these rulings . |
| 3 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 4 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
| 5 | He said when Labour left office the police were 8,000 under strength but since then 10,000 officers had been appointed along with 12,000 civilian support staff which freed manpower for beat duty . |
| 6 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 7 | In the face of falling demand for its Intel Corp i860 RISC compilers , The Portland Group , Wilsonville , Oregon , has shut its European office in Reading , Berkshire , which had been run down to two employees . |
| 8 | Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level . |
| 9 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 10 | A reputation had been built up over several years for the use of computers in the fields of manpower planning , personnel statistics and other industrial relations applications . |
| 11 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 12 | The fleet had been built up from 1898 , matching the rise in passenger traffic , and was specially suited to the inter-urban nature of the line with its infrequent stops . |
| 13 | The company 's database of reactions contains information on over 500,000 compounds , and the expertise to operate many of these on a commercial scale had been built up from several decades of process development by Kodak , Eastman and Sterling . |
| 14 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 15 | Because both test and control groups had been singled out for special attention a group pride had developed and this became the motivation for improved performance . |
| 16 | It was coloured a garish blue , an obvious re-spraying job after massive areas of the body-work had been filled in after various collisions . |
| 17 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 18 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 19 | Jim had been blown out of this room as though he had never been . |
| 20 | Kroll Associates of New York said around $10 billion of Iraq 's $200 billion oil revenues had been skimmed off in 1979–89 . |
| 21 | It was cold comfort to realize after the event that the drama had been played out by three sick men , whose judgments contributed to this deeply wounding incident in Anglo-American relations : Eisenhower was suffering from ileitis ; Dulles had cancer ; and Eden had a recurrence of the abdominal obstruction that had laid him low once before in 1953 , and was to do so again after he resigned . |
| 22 | The well-known story of Curzon 's Tuesday summons from Montacute to London , of his confident and much-photographed arrival , first at Paddington Station and then at Carlton House Terrace , followed by the crushing blow delivered to him that afternoon when Stamfordham called at his house and told him Baldwin was to be Prime Minister , was not therefore a sudden snatching from his hands of the steadily earned and well-deserved prize , but more the last rather overdramatized act of a tragi-comedy which had been played out in varying forms since his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 . |
| 23 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 24 | I recently discovered that this consultation paper had been sent out to some environmental NGOs in England in March for comments by the end of April . |
| 25 | Invoices on account amounting to £24,000 had been sent out in 1989 . |
| 26 | For centuries young bloods had been sent off by indulgent parents to tour Europe in the hope that they would return cultured , educated , their manners refined and their address books packed with useful contacts , but Cook 's was the first group tour of European countries organized by an excursion agent . |
| 27 | Troubles had been piling up in recent months as the owners struggled to restore the house 's reputation . |
| 28 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 29 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 30 | He was duly commissioned , despite his total lack of training or aptitude , on 12 June 1759 and , after his unit had been called out in 1760 , served in various parts of the country , though he soon regretted his patriotic impulse and did not enjoy what he called ‘ my bloodless and inglorious campaigns ’ . |