Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Li Peng had been appointed to head it in April 1988 , on the same day that he was confirmed as Premier [ see p. 36102 ] . |
| 2 | Linen was the most popular cloth of the period but no way had been found to bleach it to better than a dirty white colour and even that could be achieved only by up to eighteen months of processing . |
| 3 | First , an exclusion clause in an unsigned document is not incorporated unless at the time of making the contract , either the buyer was aware of its existence or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring it to his attention . |
| 4 | In that case , the party whom the clause favours ( usually the seller ) will not be found to have incorporated it in the contract unless either it was in a contractual document signed by the other party or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring it to the attention of the other party . |
| 5 | Studies by the government 's Warren Spring Laboratory showed that even though one of the crematoria had been updated to bring it into line with the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , its flue gases still contained between 25 and 46 billionths of a gram of dioxins per cubic metre . |