Example sentences of "had been [verb] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claus Toksvig , then a Danish broadcaster based in London , had been reporting on unemployment in Britain . |
| 2 | Lucille , a Norman , had been raised on stories of the merciless English pirates who lived just across the Channel and who , for centuries , had raided her homeland to kill and burn and plunder . |
| 3 | And if that was you know you could , I supp , you could argue that the French revolution had been built on notions of liberalism and it had encouraged nationalism in Europe . |
| 4 | The letter was signed by a Mr Graham Lytham and had been written on notepaper with the heading Granby , Hemingford and Bowles , Solicitors . |
| 5 | Having dismissed the basis of the EC Directive , the article now went on , as the government itself would like to imply , that , while others had muddled about wrongly trying to control nitrates , Britain had been engaged on work of an altogether higher order , ‘ in the interests of good water ’ . |
| 6 | The laboratory 's John Barton , speaking at a conference in London last year , described a number of occasions when decisions to invest in schemes to recycle rubbish or to burn it as fuel had been based on estimates of commercial and household waste that turned out to be much too high . |
| 7 | The economy and marketing had been based on barter from way back in the fourth century , so this was not new . |
| 8 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 9 | Detained in July 1991 , he had been freed on bail in November and had apparently slipped bail . |
| 10 | Fallon and Christopher Danaher , 33 — both from Wembley , Middlesex — had been stopped on suspicion of kerb crawling in West London . |
| 11 | Athelstan thought the odour came from that but , looking around , he saw the rotting heads which had been placed on spikes in the gaps of the crenellated wall . |
| 12 | He stated that since April 25 officers and 600 other ranks had been dismissed on charges of indiscipline and involvement in criminal activities . |
| 13 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
| 14 | However , the chairman , JC Warburg , begged the audience not to judge the quality of the autochromes too harshly , as some had been developed on location with solutions made from water gleaned from melted snow . |
| 15 | However , the chairman , JC Warburg , begged the audience not to judge the quality of the autochromes too harshly , as some had been developed on location with solutions made from water gleaned from melted snow . |
| 16 | Pettersson had been arrested in December 1988 and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1989 [ see pp. 36742 ; 36823 ] , but had been acquitted on appeal in October [ see p. 37160 ] . |
| 17 | It emerged that a video camera had been trained on part of the premises of the night club and on an area where an incident preceding the arrival of the police and part of the incident said to be the violent disorder had taken place . |
| 18 | ‘ The boat nousts have been taken back by the sea about six or eight feet , ’ she said , and stones had been piled on top of them . |
| 19 | And the wives had been living on credit to the grocer in the village . |
| 20 | The limit imposed by the state of Missouri on malpractice lawsuit awards had been challenged on behalf of a 13-year-old girl , Nicole Adams , who at the age of eight had been left blind and brain-damaged by an anaesthesia error during a skin graft operation . |
| 21 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 22 | Manfred Seidel , the deputy director of the Communist Party 's foreign exchange agency , the Commercial Co-Ordination agency , had been detained on suspicion of diverting 200 million marks ( £71.6 million ) in hard currency earnings abroad , ADN reported yesterday . |
| 23 | Manfred Seidel , the deputy director of the Communist Party 's foreign exchange agency , the Commercial Coordination agency , had been detained on suspicion of diverting 200 million marks ( £71.6 million ) in hard currency earnings abroad , ADN reported yesterday . |
| 24 | In the early pool games , the referees proved to be very strict indeed in applying this particular law , even to the extent of penalising players who had been pushed on top of other players lying on the ground with the ball . |
| 25 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that broad agreement had been reached on protection for the German minority in Poland " in accordance with international standards " . |
| 26 | Angolan radio announced on April 18 that agreement had been reached on unification of the two military forces , and Portuguese media reported on April 19 that it had been agreed to hold free elections 18 months after a ceasefire was signed . |
| 27 | There were no classes in child welfare for the very young mothers , and many had been fed on milk from dirty Nestles milk tins . |
| 28 | Cottam suggested that he too should have been paid for his fortnight 's service , but the Governors replied that they were under the impression that " his services had been tendered on behalf of and as the personal friend of Mr. Hamilton " . |
| 29 | The crisis arose following a demonstration in the capital , Santiago , outside a car repair shop , which had been identified on television as the disguised headquarters of the Army Intelligence Battalion ( BIE ) . |
| 30 | The news was first disseminated by DNB — the Deutsche Nachtrichten Buro — at 5.40 a.m. when the Fuhrer 's proclamation revealed to an incredulous world that the action had been forced on Germany by the insane campaign of terror waged against her by Poland . |