Example sentences of "had [been] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mill was leased in 1350 to Roger le Walker and it is likely the mill had been partially converted for fulling . |
| 2 | The ban on party politics at local government level had been partially lifted with effect from May 21 , and was completely lifted on June 3 . |
| 3 | ‘ Taking into account all the circumstances , the committee felt that he had been properly placed on List One and on the evidence available were not minded to move him to List Two as he had requested . ’ |
| 4 | The Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) held its national congress on Feb. 11 in Le Bourget , just outside Paris , assembling for the first time delegates who had been internally elected under party reforms . |
| 5 | That afternoon the floor of the shrine had been freshly plastered with mud and cow-dung and was smooth and clean , and the hearth had been cleared of its old ash . |
| 6 | Many of the new bishops and other senior ecclesiastics had been strongly influenced by Calvinism during their exile abroad in Mary 's reign . |
| 7 | To many members of the Church of England , which for fifty years had been strongly influenced by Calvinism , Laud seemed to be introducing innovations , the most offensive of which was the doctrine that bishops derived their authority from God . |
| 8 | Although CDC would not come clean with its actual choice of another RISC , it ruled out Sparc , said DEC 's Alpha was just vapourware and admitted it had been positively influenced by HP 's technology commitment . |
| 9 | It was a list of all bodies that had been positively identified to date . |
| 10 | Without the emergence of Hitler and his National Socialists all that was rotten in Germany , that had been positively fostered by Romanticism and encouraged by the humiliation that Germany had suffered under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles — racism , social Darwinism , anti-intellectualism , phoney mysticism — might have persisted indefinitely and gradually eaten away the fabric of the country and its culture , gone unchallenged by the forces of reason , lain for all time under layers of sophistry . … |
| 11 | Citrine 's interventions largely succeeded because they were in general well-timed ; on issues on which he was utterly sure of the rightness of his cause ; and on ground which had been well prepared in advance by correspondence between officials at the BEA and the Ministry , so that the Minister 's brief could be effectively exploited in the discussion . |
| 12 | In 1924 and 1925 field work was confined to the Midland Valley in order to finish sheets which had been partly surveyed during coalfield work . |
| 13 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |
| 14 | Mr Major 's sackings had been widely discounted in advance , and would have been more extensive but for Mr Chris Patten and Mr Francis Maude losing their parliamentary seats . |
| 15 | Hamdi Ali Abdel-Wahab al-Banbi , hitherto chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation ( EGPC ) , took over as Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister from the long-serving Abdul Hadi Mohammed Qandil , whose dismissal had been widely predicted following criticism from foreign companies that he paid too little attention to exploration and production . |
| 16 | The result had been widely predicted by opinion polls which showed that the Labour Party ( in government since 1984 ) had lost the confidence of the electorate . |
| 17 | The SDI Organization had been widely accused of incompetence and waste in its use of the $20,900 million spent on SDI since 1984 . |
| 18 | Such fiction , unconcise and more naturally given to carnality than wit , had been unashamedly dominated by story , and it was characteristically fast-paced and impatient of extended description , whether of scene , of motive or of mind . |
| 19 | He had been tentatively invited to dinner at Hampstead once or twice , but Dinah had not taken to him , except to mock and imitate him after he had gone . |
| 20 | He was entitled , I supposed , to his small exploratory excursion around my character ; and if he himself , I thought , had been wholly fulfilled by uniform , he would still be in it . |
| 21 | After reference to the unfortunate existence of the BSP , he stated that it had been completely destroyed by amalgamation into the Communist Party ‘ pledged to follow the Bolshevist dictatorship of Lenin' . |
| 22 | Moreover , despite its ‘ classical ’ predictions , the neo-classical synthesis was firmly grounded methodologically in the principle of effective demand : the classical money wage-real wage-employment nexus had been completely abandoned in favour of the money wage-price level-aggregate demand-employment nexus . |
| 23 | Among those with motor neurone disease , five had been previously admitted to hospital with peptic ulcer in comparison with an expected number of 7.4 ( morbidity ration 0.68 , 95% confidence intervals : 0.2 to 1.6 ) . |
| 24 | A spokesman for Central TV explained gravely that this particular edition had been carefully monitored for balance of beastliness . |
| 25 | Despite explanations that the various options had been carefully considered in advance in anticipation of a disappointing ballot result , her action was seen as yet further evidence of the style of government which had helped precipitate the leadership crisis . |
| 26 | His mother 's vegetarianism had been carefully respected at lunch , with the usual faint suggestion that it was aberrant and therefore embarrassing , although Sara did try to conceal her opinion . |
| 27 | I was teaching until 1966 and my experience had been largely directed at explanation . |
| 28 | Of the previous four presidents one , Johnson , had been effectively driven from office by the failure of his Vietnam policy ; one , Nixon , had resigned in disgrace and neither Ford nor Carter had been able to cope with the limits on presidential power . |
| 29 | Behind this lay the complaint that the judiciary had been effectively excluded from policy-making . |
| 30 | A LEGAL secretary who claimed she had been unfairly dismissed from work during sick leave is considering appealing after losing her case . |