Example sentences of "had been [verb] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Thursday the FBI played through loudspeakers tapes of previous conversations between negotiators and Koresh and a cult member , Steve Schneider , to make certain that all 105 followers still inside the compound were aware of what had been presented in the talks . |
| 2 | The villa had been built in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent by a Baderini banker . |
| 3 | Even so , it was equally true that huge sums had been lost in the courts and he called to mind a case from the text books , when a million dollar had been forfeited because of the misplaced comma . |
| 4 | Many men , natural scientists included , had been lost in the wastes . |
| 5 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 6 | He 'd once mockingly said that their relationship had been written in the stars ; if it had been then she was going to have to find some way to unwrite it , fast ! |
| 7 | Dubliners were told in 1988 that Molly 's birth and baptismal records had been discovered in the registers of St John 's Church . |
| 8 | Pauline also gave an apology to anyone who had not been told personally about the tragedy and explained that as many people as possible had been contacted in the circumstances . |
| 9 | When the political and moral credibility of the Soviet system collapsed in 1956 , something that had been slumbering in the depths of Sartre 's consciousness was suddenly reawakened . |
| 10 | The original Act had been amended in the years before 1979 by such Acts as the Misrepresentation Act 1967 , the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 , the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 11 | The seven had been implicated in the bombings by confessions ( later discredited ) made under pressure by Gerard Conlon and Paul Hill , two of the " Guildford Four " who were imprisoned for the Guildford and Woolwich bombings [ see p. 27739 ] but who were released in October 1989 when their convictions were declared unsafe [ see p. 36983 ] . |
| 12 | The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft . |
| 13 | Hundreds of homes had been destroyed in the battles between US troops and the Panamanian Defence Forces ( FDP ) , especially near the FDP headquarters . |
| 14 | It quoted Brazil 's National Institute for Research as calculating that 120,300 square miles of forest had been destroyed in the years leading up to 1989 . |
| 15 | The caller had been swallowed in the crowds . |
| 16 | Both sides agreed that " progress " had been made in the talks , which were aimed at an agreement replacing the 1947 security treaty giving the USA full control over the Clark air base and Subic naval base and four smaller installations . |
| 17 | The FLMN 's Radio Farabundo Martí reported on July 12 that " important progress " had been made in the talks , but gave no further details . |
| 18 | The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 19 | ‘ I was under the impression there had been full consultation and changes had been made in the plans to suit the buses , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Despite this application of man power , it was not possible to achieve the same rate of progress as had been made in the Lowlands . |
| 21 | An official from the New China News Agency office , China 's de facto embassy in Hong Kong , said no progress had been made in the negotiations and that an early solution was not expected . |
| 22 | Not that the air was very bad anywhere now since most of the roof had been removed by round shot and considerable holes had been made in the walls . |
| 23 | He realized that we felt disgusted at what had been achieved in the commandos and that he had had this brainwave of small parties behind the lines . ’ |
| 24 | I thought , I thought someone had been smoking in the toilets . |
| 25 | So it was that R. Kuhn , in Switzerland , administered compounds which had been prepared in the laboratories of J. R. Geigy S. A. to patients who were withdrawn , inactive , and depressed . |
| 26 | He had been injured in the pits many years before and supplemented his income by hunting and fishing . |
| 27 | Some 592 people had been injured in the police attack on student demonstrators , which precipitated the November revolution . |
| 28 | When it was heard that he had been shot in the legs at the time of his arrest , the reporters assured their readers that the general view of the British people was , ‘ A pity they did n't aim a bit higher . ’ |
| 29 | Robinson , aged 63 , in deteriorating health and suffering from glaucoma , had been shot in the legs on July 27 ; he was also reported to have been beaten . |
| 30 | She was surprised to find that it was still not too late , only lunchtime actually , and she was further surprised when Felipe merely informed the other two that they had been driving in the mountains . |