Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a statement issued on Feb. 7 , 1990 , however , it said that some $2,000 million had been spent on an operation which had been halted in mid-September for climatic reasons . |
| 2 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 3 | Following the outbreak of the South African war in 1899 she gave private classes in London in these languages — classes which were transferred to King 's College , London , in 1901 ; in 1910 these were formally recognized by the University of London , the first British university to promote the teaching of Bantu languages ( Swahili had been taught in Berlin since 1887 ) . |
| 4 | He was not lying when , in Wednesday 's rather pitiful TV interviews aimed at persuading his party not to dump him , he said he had been inundated with letters of support from the world of music , opera , theatre , films and sport . |
| 5 | In the March 1991 legislative elections Tahoeraa Huiraatira — the opposition party led by Flosse which had been ousted from government in December 1987 , after controlling the territory 's government since March 1982 — captured 18 of the 41 seats in the Territorial Assembly . |
| 6 | Queen Anne 's former chief minister , Henry St John , Viscount Bolingbroke , who had been ousted from office by a Whig on George I 's accession , arrived in Paris that spring , to be followed in August by another influential figure , James Butler , Duke of Ormonde , who had succeeded Marlborough as Captain-General and had contemplated leading a military rebellion against the new king . |
| 7 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |
| 8 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
| 9 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 10 | A huge , makeshift scaffold had been erected in front of the palace , a long , thick ashen pole fixed into two uprights at either end . |
| 11 | McCarthy , the first Western hostage released in Lebanon since the freeing of Brian Keenan in August 1990 [ see p. 37668 ] , had been kidnapped in Beirut on April 17 , 1986 , only a short while after arriving in the city to serve as acting bureau chief for Worldwide Television [ see p. 34458 ] . |
| 12 | Frank Reed , the US director of the Lebanese International College who had been kidnapped in Beirut in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , was released into Syrian custody in West Beirut on April 30 . |
| 13 | ( A Challen piano had been presented for use in the church in 1976 . ) |
| 14 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 15 | Apparently the committee had refused to give such a certificate because the graphic work had been presented by Chagall as a gift to friends . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 . |
| 18 | Fouts then began work with Lucy , at that time 5 years old , who had been raised since birth as one of the family of a psychotherapist , Maury Temerlin , and his wife . |
| 19 | She told me that there was some money in a bank account which had been raised in memory of her daughter . |
| 20 | The original seven dwellings to the acre had been raised in Britain to around seventeen , at which density ‘ culs-de-sac and walkways , cars and garages did not merge into the landscape so happily . ' ’ |
| 21 | The senior component of what became The East Surrey Regiment under the 1881 Cardwell Reforms had been raised in Huntingdonshire in 1702 as The 31st Regiment of Foot . |
| 22 | In all , some £24 billion had been raised from sales by the end of 1988 . |
| 23 | The Supreme Court had been increased in size from five to nine judges by President Carlos Saúl Menem in April , and there were accusations that it was biased in favour of the government . |
| 24 | Whatever the Government say , there can be no doubt from the answers given to parliamentary questions that , if the pension had been increased in line with earnings , a married couple would now receive more than £20 a week extra . |
| 25 | After a long career in public service , Monnet had been appointed as head of the French Planning Commission . |
| 26 | The Agence France-Presse news agency reported on July 5 that Mahesh Acharya and Ram Badan Yadav both recently elected to the National Council , had been appointed as Minister of Finance and Minister of Health respectively . |
| 27 | Geagea and Minqarah had been appointed as Minister of State and Minister for Tourism , respectively , in the new Cabinet in May 1992 [ see p. 38933 ] . |
| 28 | The judge declined to find that Mr. O'Brien had been appointed as agent of the bank . |
| 29 | The post of Minister for State Participation remained vacant , following the death on Dec. 27 , 1990 , of Franco Piga , who had been appointed in July of that year . |
| 30 | On 3rd November , 1992 it was announced Bishop Crowley had been appointed in succession to Bishop Harris as Bishop of Middlesbrough . |