Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's jeans and shirt had been tossed on to the rumpled heap made by his sleeping-bag and two dented pillows . |
| 3 | A BITTER David Gower blasted England 's selectors last night after he was virtually the last to hear he had been tossed back into the cricketing wilderness . |
| 4 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 5 | By this time they had been chucked out of the garden of course . |
| 6 | I tried all the channels from 1 to 40 in case the hijackers had been messing about with the rig in the truck , but still got nothing . |
| 7 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 8 | As had been realised already in the model experiments , a rotor ship would not make full use of a wind blowing directly from astern . |
| 9 | The field behaves as if it had been presented simultaneously with the target display , and so reduces the contrast between target contours and their background ( that is , the target contours will look grey rather than black ) . |
| 10 | The issue of abortion had been raised earlier in the month when , on June 23 , Bush vetoed legislation which would have lifted the federal ban on funding medical research which used tissue from abortions . |
| 11 | US officials denied reports that Iran 's recent acquisition of military hardware from Russia [ see pp. 39122 ; 39170 ; 39214 ] had been raised specifically at the Paris meeting . |
| 12 | During the war Iraq 's oil production had fallen dramatically , and to meet the shortage production had been increased elsewhere in the Gulf . |
| 13 | Sancito Caro Brito [ named as Coco Brito on p. 37708 ] ; Jacqueline Mercedes Malagón was later appointed Education Minister in place of Pedro Gil Iturbes , who had been appointed earlier in the year but had resigned after Belaguer publicly accused him of jeopardizing an agreement between the government and the teachers ' association . |
| 14 | Her clothing had been ripped away to the waist in the horrific attack , said police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo . |
| 15 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 16 | A vast open space had been cordoned off for the day . |
| 17 | He felt like a boxer who had been pummelled mercilessly against the ropes , on the verge of defeat , only to see his opponent 's corner throw in the towel . |
| 18 | Smaller levers had been built flush into the floor for them to manipulate with their rear feet . |
| 19 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 20 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 21 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 22 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 23 | These conflicts , combined with the debt crisis , have also contributed to a sharp decline in intra-regional trade which had been built up through the Central American Common Market . |
| 24 | Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers . |
| 25 | Areas which were both ambiguous acoustically and relatively unconstrained by higher-level knowledge sources would not be processed until a more global interpretation of the utterance had been built up through the extension of various islands . |
| 26 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 27 | ‘ If this issue had been built up by the NFU and sufficient Tory MPs had rebelled we could have reversed the cuts but there seemed to be little fight from Edinburgh . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |
| 29 | They had been built just before the war and were only now being used for their intended purpose . |
| 30 | In the summer Henry James used to work in the ‘ Garden Room ’ which had been built apart from the house as a banqueting room . |