Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third round of talks , in May , had been halted over the same issue [ see p. 38191 ] . |
| 2 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 3 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 4 | Her accusing eyes had been fixed on the solitary figure who 'd stood a little apart from the others , as if not sure of his right to be there . |
| 5 | He had not seen her enter because his attention had been fixed upon the well-ordered panoply of her retinue . |
| 6 | She had disliked Colin since their first meeting ; the relationship , at a glance , had been fixed in the stereotyped antagonism between newly acquired fiancée and slightly disreputable old schoolmate and drinking partner . |
| 7 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 8 | Those views she had been taught in the twenties while a young girl , that men do not love or respect , still less marry , women who have ‘ given themselves ’ to them , she had been obliged to revise . |
| 9 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 10 | Those results would suggest that the other tumours were in fact new tumours , rather than persistent tumours which had been missed at the first cystoscopy . |
| 11 | However , several people before him — Francis Bacon even — had been struck by the amazing correspondence between the coastlines of the African and South American continents . |
| 12 | FitzRoy had been struck by the peculiar appearance of a group of brownish-black birds living in the islands that resembled finches . |
| 13 | Yet it may be argued that part of the process was a search for the open sea which France had been denied until the early years of the thirteenth century , and that the desire to win control of the peripheral duchies of Aquitaine , Brittany and Normandy was but an aspect of a wider policy which included an ambition to have access to , and control of , the ports on the Atlantic , Mediterranean and Channel coasts for military as well as for commercial reasons . |
| 14 | A plea for clemency , submitted by the defence lawyers , had been denied by the six-member Grenada Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy on July 26 . |
| 15 | The movement 's two leading figures were ( i ) Peter-Michael Diestel , the last East German Interior Minister who had been ousted as the Christian Democrat ( CDU ) parliamentary leader in Brandenburg earlier in the year for defending former informers of the East German " Stasi " security police against " one-sided " accusations , and ( ii ) Gregor Gysi , leader of the reformed communist Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) . |
| 16 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 17 | Most of the coconut palms had been cleared from the twenty-acre site , and the dense vegetation had been cut back to deepen the crescent-shaped beach where the six low-level Mediterranean accommodation blocks were to be built , each housing twenty rooms , varying in size and design but all with huge covered terraces overhanging the beach with uninterrupted sea views . |
| 18 | The dancing had stopped momentarily , and a space had been cleared round the happy couple . |
| 19 | Senior British Government officials for the first time said yesterday that while a trip by two Tory strategists to the US during the campaign had been cleared by the Conservative Party chairman , Sir Norman Fowler , he had not told Mr Major . |
| 20 | More significantly , the Government yesterday made the biggest effort yet to defuse the row by saying the two Central Office officials ' visit had been cleared by the Tory chairman , Sir Norman Fowler , but Major himself had known nothing about it . |
| 21 | The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report . |
| 22 | While Francis had been gazing into the unseeable distance , the wall had extended several metres across the clearing . |
| 23 | It elated her to realize the fact , to recognize the echo of her horse , struggling on the icy path , to hear the drum , to smell the wood of the fires , the crack of the crude hide tents that had been erected outside the arched gate of the ruined fortress . |
| 24 | On the other they disapproved of some of the impediments which had been erected in the twentieth century : the requirements of a lis inter partes and a superadded duty to act judicially were said to be false constraints . |
| 25 | It had been erected in the second half of the second century to house c number of specialist kilns and furnaces , but clearly overlay the remains of earlier bonfire kilns and spreads of potters ' clay . |
| 26 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 27 | On Aug. 14 at least 79 protesters were arrested at the US Eighth Army headquarters in central Seoul , after a car had been rammed through the main gate . |
| 28 | First to suffer were the relatives of those who had been kidnapped by the Joint Command . |
| 29 | Polhill and three of his colleagues at the Beirut University College had been kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine ( IJLP ) in Beirut in January 1987 [ see p. 35024 ] . |
| 30 | The experimental subjects acquired the CR only slowly when trained in context A , the context in which the light had been presented during the first stage of habituation training . |