Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the March 1991 legislative elections Tahoeraa Huiraatira — the opposition party led by Flosse which had been ousted from government in December 1987 , after controlling the territory 's government since March 1982 — captured 18 of the 41 seats in the Territorial Assembly . |
| 2 | Queen Anne 's former chief minister , Henry St John , Viscount Bolingbroke , who had been ousted from office by a Whig on George I 's accession , arrived in Paris that spring , to be followed in August by another influential figure , James Butler , Duke of Ormonde , who had succeeded Marlborough as Captain-General and had contemplated leading a military rebellion against the new king . |
| 3 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |
| 4 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 5 | A huge , makeshift scaffold had been erected in front of the palace , a long , thick ashen pole fixed into two uprights at either end . |
| 6 | Claus Toksvig , then a Danish broadcaster based in London , had been reporting on unemployment in Britain . |
| 7 | ( A Challen piano had been presented for use in the church in 1976 . ) |
| 8 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 9 | Fouts then began work with Lucy , at that time 5 years old , who had been raised since birth as one of the family of a psychotherapist , Maury Temerlin , and his wife . |
| 10 | She told me that there was some money in a bank account which had been raised in memory of her daughter . |
| 11 | The Supreme Court had been increased in size from five to nine judges by President Carlos Saúl Menem in April , and there were accusations that it was biased in favour of the government . |
| 12 | Whatever the Government say , there can be no doubt from the answers given to parliamentary questions that , if the pension had been increased in line with earnings , a married couple would now receive more than £20 a week extra . |
| 13 | After a long career in public service , Monnet had been appointed as head of the French Planning Commission . |
| 14 | The Agence France-Presse news agency reported on July 5 that Mahesh Acharya and Ram Badan Yadav both recently elected to the National Council , had been appointed as Minister of Finance and Minister of Health respectively . |
| 15 | Geagea and Minqarah had been appointed as Minister of State and Minister for Tourism , respectively , in the new Cabinet in May 1992 [ see p. 38933 ] . |
| 16 | The judge declined to find that Mr. O'Brien had been appointed as agent of the bank . |
| 17 | On 3rd November , 1992 it was announced Bishop Crowley had been appointed in succession to Bishop Harris as Bishop of Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | Lt.-Gen Rahman had held the post since August 1986 when he had been appointed in place of President Hussain Mohammad Ershad [ see p. 34812 ] . |
| 19 | The Polish Republic was proclaimed at the end of December 1989 , thus restoring the formal name which had been adopted after independence in 1918 but replaced by the name Polish People 's Republic in 1947 . |
| 20 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 21 | Some elements of the script had been leaked during production of the movie , and there was a reactionary movement against what we were trying to put onscreen . |
| 22 | A makeshift altar had been built in front of the spring . |
| 23 | In actual fact little had been written about Cubism by April 1910 , but Boccioni 's work of 1911 shows some indirect Cubist influence , and he was certainly in correspondence with Severini , who , though as yet little touched by the movement , was a friend of both Picasso and Braque . |
| 24 | The letter was signed by a Mr Graham Lytham and had been written on notepaper with the heading Granby , Hemingford and Bowles , Solicitors . |
| 25 | I saw that the cell was clean but that several English names had been written in pencil on the wall . |
| 26 | Once he and his henchman had been obliged to leave the wrecked apartment on the avenue Foch , he had been filled with apprehension at having to report his failure direct to Teheran . |
| 27 | Like most people who knew Joyce well , she had been filled with trepidation at the prospect of seeing someone trying on Joyce 's inimitable footwear . |
| 28 | She had once embraced the world with her enthusiasm , laughed at life , had been filled with compassion for those less fortunate , and what was she now ? |
| 29 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 30 | Dugan suggested that the military had concluded that air power was the only way of forcing Iraq out of Kuwait if war broke out , and that a massive bombing campaign had been planned in order to " decapitate " the Iraqi leadership by targeting Saddam , his family and his senior commanders . |