Example sentences of "had been [verb] in a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 2 | A World Bank spokesman responded to the leak by denying that the memo in any way represented Bank policy , and adding that it had been written in a deliberately ironic tone in order to provoke internal debate within the organization . |
| 3 | Consider the case where there are two ‘ players ’ , Lilliput and Blefuscu ( who , according to Jonathan Swift , ‘ had been engaged in a most obstinate war for six and thirty moons Past ’ ) . |
| 4 | One of the Quorn had been discovered in a very loose-box with a girl from the Cotswold and dropped from his team . |
| 5 | After their visit custodians noticed that a sketchbook ‘ had been mutilated in a very clumsy manner , by the abstraction of several leaves containing an unknown number of sketches or drawings . ’ |
| 6 | On being sued by the plaintiffs for breach of the implied duty of confidentiality , the defendant claimed that he had made all his calculations in designing the heater from information which had been published in a readily obtainable leaflet . |
| 7 | What had really occurred was that the Hollywood style had been updated and a large number of films had been located in a more contemporary urban setting . |
| 8 | Shelley was beginning to see that she had been put in a very special place of importance in Miguel 's confidence . |
| 9 | An aged woman , said Dr. Goldsmith , had been admitted in a most horrible condition of neglect . |