Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as if her own emotions had been tossed brutally into a whirlwind . |
| 2 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 3 | As had been realised already in the model experiments , a rotor ship would not make full use of a wind blowing directly from astern . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | During the war Iraq 's oil production had fallen dramatically , and to meet the shortage production had been increased elsewhere in the Gulf . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her clothing had been ripped away to the waist in the horrific attack , said police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo . |
| 10 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 11 | His name had been leaked inadvertently in a press interview which I had given and someone had traced his whereabouts . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Smaller levers had been built flush into the floor for them to manipulate with their rear feet . |
| 14 | They had been built just before the war and were only now being used for their intended purpose . |
| 15 | In the summer Henry James used to work in the ‘ Garden Room ’ which had been built apart from the house as a banqueting room . |
| 16 | In the Williams incident , a caller giving a false name and claiming to be from brokers Hoare Govett rang the Guardian and other newspapers with a story earlier this week claiming that a stake of over 3 per cent had been built secretly by the Barclay brothers . |
| 17 | This village had been built solely for the duration of the festival , for the thousands of funeral guests who were expected to arrive on foot from the far corners of the kingdom . |
| 18 | It had been built earlier in the century , and by 1794 was the home of Henry Poole 's uncle , Thomas Poole the elder , an ‘ irritable , arbitrary old man ’ whose bad temper owed only a little to his sufferings from the gout . |
| 19 | It had been built ostensibly as a future home for a son and his future wife , but tastes and pocket books had changed . |
| 20 | The station resembled the early Earth Pioneer space stations which had been built outwards from the home planet to the stars . |
| 21 | The stove was the delight of her heart and had been built especially by a friend of her late husband 's to fit neatly into the end of her tiny home . |
| 22 | It replaced three older small stations which had been built there in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 23 | The glass cone at Lemington , although incomplete , is one of few such survivals in Britain , and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the ‘ English nation their handicraft ’ , which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans . |
| 24 | Wiles , it was hoped , would restore the intended seriousness to Doctor Who , which he felt had been lost somewhat in the wake of the Daleks ' success . |
| 25 | Meredith endeavoured to explain that the play had been written long before the carnage of the First World War , let alone the Second . |
| 26 | Government officials said that the events had been planned jointly by the Reform the Armed Forces Movement ( RAM ) , an organization of military officers , and supporters of former President Marcos . |
| 27 | However , a cautionary note had been sounded right at the beginning of the whole exercise : |
| 28 | An earlier attempt had been withdrawn immediately after the 19 October 1987 Wall Street crash . |
| 29 | In 1391 the castle of St Briavels and the Forest of Dean were given to Thomas , Duke of Gloucester to hold in tail male , and in 1398 the forest of Rutland to Edward , Duke of Albermarle : by 1405 the Somerset forests of Neroche , Exmoor , Mendip and the park of North Petherton had been granted away to the Earl of March . |
| 30 | As reported on April 19 , 1990 , credit lines of US$11,000,000 and $3,000,000 had been granted respectively by an unidentified Japanese company and the Import-Export Bank of South Korea . |