Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club . |
| 2 | We had been taught the history of the organisation , and each day were learning more about its curious codes of morality and behaviour . |
| 3 | French maintained that he thought that the safety catch was on and that he had been struck a blow on the back of the head which had caused him to stagger and pull the trigger . |
| 4 | Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking . |
| 5 | Judge Gerhard A. Gesell ruled that Hopkins , who had been denied a partnership in 1982 because her colleagues considered her to be too " macho " , had been the victim of illegal " sex stereotyping " . |
| 6 | She had been denied the company of males during her early life and now found it difficult to talk to members of the opposite sex . |
| 7 | The allegation of negligence was that the defendant had failed to observe a foetal abnormality during pregnancy and the plaintiff had been denied the possibility of an abortion . |
| 8 | He told her that when Ted Heath was Prime Minister , Mrs Sarah Morrison had been appointed a vice-chairman of the party with a brief to turn Ted into a human being . |
| 9 | It is hard to say how directly the King reminded the Company that it was doing well because it had been granted a monopoly of the English market . |
| 10 | Orchard had been granted a rent for his ‘ good and praiseworthy service and counsel ’ in 1475 , and he was engaged as a contractor for several parts of the college buildings , including the great west window of the chapel to his own ‘ portraiture ’ ( design ) . |
| 11 | Because of his obedience he had been granted the gift of eternal life . |
| 12 | A jury swore in 1266 that John son of Nigel and his ancestors had been foresters of fee of Bernwood Forest ‘ from the Conquest of England ’ : another jury declared that the ancestors of William son of Adam had been granted the manor of Hutton-in-the Forest by Henry I , to hold by the serjeanty of keeping the bailiwick of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest . |
| 13 | He already had an interest there , as he had been granted the town of Lalinde by Edward in 1267 . |
| 14 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 15 | In February 1284 , Constance de Béarn , vicomtesse of Marsan , complained that her claim to the comté of Bigorre had been assigned a hearing by Jean de Grilly , seneschal of Gascony , at Langon in the Bazadais because , she alleged , he knew that ‘ the customs of Bazadais were against her , and that the opposing parties would be aided by those customs ’ . |
| 16 | Since monetary and fiscal policies had been assigned the role of guaranteeing the maintenance of full employment , the traditional neoclassical preoccupation with efficiency in the face of scarcity could come back into its own . |
| 17 | The Earl of Hyndford had been sent a box of earth from the ‘ innermost parts of the Cherokee nation ’ . |
| 18 | Interviewed in Edinburgh after a Class 91 electric locomotive had been named The Scotsman by the paper 's editor , Magnus Linklater , Mr Green stressed his belief that the Glasgow-London Euston route had a good future . |
| 19 | The Foreign Ministry on Aug. 21 announced that there had been discovered an attempt by supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mohamed Taki to destabilize the government , and that one French mercenary and two Comorans had been arrested . |
| 20 | He had been stabbed a number of times but , before he died , he used his own blood to etch on a piece of parchment the name Raphael . |
| 21 | The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books . |
| 22 | Since the beginning of the nineteenth century there had been voiced a range of analyses of , and solutions to , poverty . |
| 23 | He had been asked a question on the influence of campaign promises and its effect on the election of particular candidates . |
| 24 | He blushed guiltily , but the small part of his brain that had been vaguely monitoring the discussion alerted him to the fact that he had been asked a question by the executive producer . |
| 25 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 26 | And before meeting him , I wandered about the Left Bank reminding myself that I had been prescribed the city of love to feast my senses . |
| 27 | Sullivan later claimed that he had been given no instructions on this point . |
| 28 | Scandinavia had had even less success in the numerous discussions on a customs union , and the topic had been given no priority in the plans of the Nordic Council . |
| 29 | He said that he had been given no information about the departure and even late yesterday , had been unable to reach government officials responsible for refugee matters . |
| 30 | She had been given a chance of survival . |