Example sentences of "had [been] [adv] [vb pp] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the new bishops and other senior ecclesiastics had been strongly influenced by Calvinism during their exile abroad in Mary 's reign . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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' . |
| 10 | Prior to the meeting , a delegation of Amazon Indians visited Dayak communities in Sarawak whose land had been badly affected by logging . |
| 11 | His throat had been badly scarred by praxis gas during a bankruptcy action three years ago , and his words came out sounding like fingernails scratching glass . |
| 12 | And this for the very good reason that the only relevant decision on the fiduciary duty — Prescott v. Birmingham — had been immediately negatived by Parliament in its application to the power of local transport authorities to fix the level of fares . |
| 13 | The Class 58 had been kindly donated by Railfreight Sector at Bescot for the day . |
| 14 | Union members were openly expressing the view that there was a real chance that the ailing division would now pull out of its dive with the Peters ' Plan , which had been fully supported by Bunker and a two-thirds majority at the plant . |
| 15 | Already their numbers had been so diminished by persecution and by unfavourable trading terms in Henry III 's reign that the tallage which they paid annually to the king was less under Edward I than he might gain by seizing their estates and inducing a clerical subsidy by their expulsion . |
| 16 | Among them was George Donaldson , one of Scotland 's leading deaf men , who had been totally deafened by injury during the First World War . |
| 17 | ‘ Hum — Perdita 's problem , ’ sighed Daisy whose tongue had been totally loosened by drink on no lunch . |
| 18 | The route back had been totally covered by snow . |
| 19 | The opening of the Legislative Yuan session on Sept. 24 had been seriously disrupted by DPP legislators , forcing Premier Hau Pei-tsun to deliver his address from behind riot shields , and the DPP had pledged to filibuster all sessions until the Criminal Code article covering sedition , used to suppress independence activists , was abolished [ see also p. 38190 ] . |
| 20 | The Assembly session had opened in February but had been seriously disrupted by DPP protests . |
| 21 | A State Council meeting on Sept. 17 announced that 9,000 million yuan ( $1,670 million ) would be spent over the next five years on 18 key water conservation projects in the Huaihe River and Taihu Lake valleys , heavily populated and economically developed areas which had been seriously affected by flooding . |
| 22 | Further refinements developed : for example , Dejerine ( 1982 ) described a patient whose disorder in the processing of written language was confined to its perception — that is , this patient could still write normally , even though his reading had been severely impaired by brain damage . |
| 23 | It had been severely damaged by water and dirt , to the extent that it is unusable and will have to be replaced . |
| 24 | When he ended , it had been deeply invaded by suburbia and the motor car . |
| 25 | Earlier , on Aug. 31 , 1989 , the non-executive President , Wee Kim Wee , had been unanimously re-elected by Parliament for a four-year term . |
| 26 | Officials said every couple had been personally matched by Moon using photos and a computer . |