Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In line with a January 1990 central government request for the resignation of all State governors , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Rustom Khushro Shaporjee Gandhi resigned as Governor of Himachal Pradesh , a post he had been appointed to in April 1986 . |
| 2 | The court may disallow an amendment on its own motion or on application , and shall do so where satisfied that if an application for leave had been applied for under Ord 15 , r 1 it would have been refused ( Ord 15 , r 2(3) ) . |
| 3 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 4 | Again the number of Western representatives was small : there were only five papal legates , three bishops and two priests , but they were given the presidency partly at least because this council , though formally convoked by the emperor , had been called for by Pope Leo . |
| 5 | For example , subjects were able to remember whether a character had been referred to by name or by pronominal reference ( as in , He wo n't leave Rachel 's room / Mac wo n't leave Rachel 's room ) and whether an utterance had contained a full clausal unit or an abbreviated elliptical clause ( as in You mean that Jamie does n't know that his mother is in the hospital yet ? / You mean that Jamie does n't know that yet ? ) . |
| 6 | The US White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater had meanwhile ( according to Le Monde of March 26 ) said that it would not be sufficient for Libya to hand the two men over to the Arab League ; Libya had to comply with all the demands that had been referred to in Resolution 731 [ see ICJ verdict below ] . |
| 7 | It was only after the women had left that she thought to check the receipt book to make sure it had not been her duty to collect payment for today 's four lunches , then sighed with relief when she saw that this had been attended to at lunchtime by Jean . |
| 8 | Although in 1974 the Supreme Court had ordered President Nixon to surrender tapes in connection with the Watergate affair ( when Democratic Party premises had been broken into by Nixon 's supporters with his knowledge ) , no court had ever ordered a former President to surrender personal notes , and Greene 's decision was a departure from a ruling in the case of Oliver North , where requests for such material had been denied . |
| 9 | The verdict of that post-mortem was that Reverend Marr had been killed at about midnight on Friday . |
| 10 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 11 | All these matters are indeed of a lower order of magnitude than those which had been fought for under Lanfranc and Anselm . |
| 12 | With its assertion of militarism , voluntarism and adventurism , it stands for everything that orthodox Marxists in Latin America had been arguing against for years . |
| 13 | Some refugee children underwent , for the second time , a fall in living standards from those they had been used to in Europe , which added to the depression they were already feeling as the threat of invasion increased . |
| 14 | My stomach did for a while , as it did not like the vapours given out by the hops in the borough market after the sea air it had been used to in Hastings , but one can not live on sea air . |
| 15 | Surprise , the raid had been talked about in Waco for days . |
| 16 | The building materials sold to third parties during the year had cost £14,000 of which all but £1,000 had been paid for by December 1990 . |
| 17 | A consignment of vital arms for the war with the accursed President Sadeq of Iraq had been paid for by Teheran , to be delivered by ship . |
| 18 | The dentist I had been going to for years no longer took NHS patients . |
| 19 | Mr Ram hinted that Mr Kasturi had been got at by government officials . |
| 20 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 21 | Many of his acquisitions had eventually bored him and had been disposed of by auction , but the most accomplished and entertaining individuals were rewarded , once they became too old or unattractive to perform their requisite duties , by unconditional liberation from the household and a generous pension . |
| 22 | The former Prime Minister , Mr Edward Heath , opposed changing the law on these grounds , arguing that the main figures had been dealt with at Nuremberg . |
| 23 | Possibly started very early on by Pope Symmachus , it had been added to by Pope Eugenius III in the twelfth century . |
| 24 | After the early years of the Reformation , a settlement between the Lutherans and Catholics had been arrived at in Augsburg in 1555 . |