Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [adv] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 2 | Other innovations were also approached with circumspection by the BEA headquarters design engineers , even though significant experience of them had been gained both in this country and abroad . |
| 3 | When I could move , I discovered that I had been cut nearly in half . |
| 4 | It seems they had been beaten up in some way by other prisoners but we do not know who . ’ |
| 5 | There was particular resistance within the camp of the Official Unionist candidate in South Antrim and , not until the final pre-nomination meeting of coalition party leaders in the Seagoe Hotel , Portadown , was it confirmed that the point had been conceded even in that constituency . |
| 6 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 7 | The battle achieved a notoriety in America when Life magazine published the photographs of 241 GIs who had been killed there in less than a week . |
| 8 | The growth hormone gene had been turned on in all the cells throughout the body and the increased production of the growth hormone had resulted in increased growth . |
| 9 | There was danger , too , underfoot : the path had been ploughed over in many places and here and there were lumps of frozen earth covered with snow , and slippery . |
| 10 | Lenin wishes to explain why it was that although the ‘ peaceful mask ’ of capitalism had been torn off in all the countries of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century , and popular discontent was widespread , it was only in Russia that a successful revolution occurred . |
| 11 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 12 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 13 | Confused , flushing as though she had been found out in some guilty action , Isabel tentatively let her fingers rest lightly on fitzAlan 's arm . |
| 14 | More offices had been opened up in many countries . |
| 15 | At the end of Chapter 3 it was pointed out that the 1960s had seen a series of reform proposals in British government and that by 1980 most of these had been carried out in some form though the question of devolution had still to be settled . |
| 16 | They said that no English forward scouts had been reported anywhere in this vicinity ; nor had the Earl made any direct contact with them . |
| 17 | The Bendcrete competition structure used at the British Open at Olympia last year had been set up in all its over-hanging glory next to the existing facilities . |
| 18 | Thus Communist parties were functioning in the major Latin American countries by 1923 , and had been set up in most others by the end of the decade . |
| 19 | Zeinab had been brought up in this culture . |