Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zuno had been convicted at an earlier trial but Rafeedie had set aside the verdict on the grounds that the prosecution had referred in closing arguments to matters not in evidence . |
| 2 | A final decision about segmentation would not be made until at least some words had been integrated into a higher level . |
| 3 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 4 | The post had been vacant since August 1991 [ see pp. 38449 ; 38399 ] and Gronkiewicz-Waltz , who had been proposed by President Lech Walesa , had been rejected in an earlier vote in December . |
| 5 | A state of emergency in the Dnestr Republic had been extended for a further two months . |
| 6 | The package , which applied to the current fiscal year ( ending in March 1993 ) , was finally passed on Dec. 10 , after the special session of the Diet had been extended for a further two days . |
| 7 | Guy of Lusignan had been beaten by a greater man . |
| 8 | The inclusion of these provisions in the plan were referred to by Rafsanjani in a speech on Oct. 8 , when he reported that " we decided to make some amendments in the plan ( which had been completed in an earlier draft form by the previous government of Prime Minister Hossein Moussavi ) under the new atmosphere " . |
| 9 | Sentencing had been adjourned from an earlier date during which time it is alleged Marriner committed other offences . |
| 10 | He had been moved to a higher class , seemed well adjusted and chatted a lot when she worked with him . |
| 11 | He became not so much a propagandist as a radio ‘ character ’ who had been created by a darker comedy than Tommy Handley 's ITMA . |
| 12 | A similar conclusion had been reached in an earlier study covering the period 1952 to 1968 ( Blom-Cooper and Drewry , 1972 ) . |
| 13 | A LOYALIST gunman yesterday shot and wounded a Catholic man who had been disabled in an earlier murder attempt . |
| 14 | He had been born on a Junker estate at Schönhausen in Brandenburg in 1815 , and his family had moved to Kniephof in Pomerania soon afterwards . |
| 15 | Jack was the eldest of the family and he had been born in a smaller house , but he did n't remember it . |
| 16 | On the eve of a second major exhibition of his work at the Tate Gallery ( 17 June-6 September ) , curated , once again , by Richard Morphet and devoted , on this occasion , to his oil paintings , Hamilton spoke to Roger Bevan of his career , his relationship with dealers , the continuing attraction of television , his declining interest in America and his delight in discovering that he had been rediscovered by a younger generation of artists and students . |
| 17 | By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states . |
| 18 | His anxiety for her had been displaced by a greater worry — was that possible ? |
| 19 | The latter had been described as a pewterer and metaller in 1666 ( see The Boke off Recorde of Kirkbie-Kendall , ed. by R. S. Fergusson ) later to become the well beloved " first and modern mayor of the Burgh " ( 1684 ) , and re-elected in 1708 . |
| 20 | According to a Far Eastern Economic Review report of March 19 , another , more critical , document had been circulated to a smaller number of top officials , reportedly criticizing a number of prominent hardliners , including Song Ping , a member of the politburo standing committee , Wang Renzhi , the party central committee ideology head , Deng Liqun , CAC ideologue , Gao Di , director of the party newspaper Renmin Ribao , and He Jingzhe , the acting Culture Minister . |
| 21 | Following a meeting with Collor on Aug. 26 , the 27 state governors acknowledged the need for amendments but refused to endorse the changes as proposed until they had been subjected to a wider debate . |
| 22 | Initially , the post had been envisaged at a lower level , but the Lords select committee pushed for this power . |
| 23 | This had been proposed in an earlier draft which was condemned by journalists as seeking to introduce " curbs … such as journalists did not experience even in the days when the CPSU was all-powerful " . |
| 24 | On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level . |
| 25 | The Polish origins had been almost eroded , but not quite ; they had been overlaid with heavy Cockney , which , in turn , had been flattened into a classier accent as Steen climbed the social ladder . |
| 26 | To summarise , again , survey evidence from Appendix 1 , people who had been educated to a higher level , who were more highly paid , or were in a higher social group , seemed more readily able than average to use APR or credit cost information in choosing among loan options . |
| 27 | My impression that I had been hurled into a coarser world was heightened at the beginning of each day , particularly one morning when I was on fire picket duty and had the sadistic pleasure of rattling the dustbin lids and shouting " wakey-wakey ! " along the corridors . |