Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A huge , makeshift scaffold had been erected in front of the palace , a long , thick ashen pole fixed into two uprights at either end . |
| 6 | ( A Challen piano had been presented for use in the church in 1976 . ) |
| 7 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She told me that there was some money in a bank account which had been raised in memory of her daughter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After a long career in public service , Monnet had been appointed as head of the French Planning Commission . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | The judge declined to find that Mr. O'Brien had been appointed as agent of the bank . |
| 16 | On 3rd November , 1992 it was announced Bishop Crowley had been appointed in succession to Bishop Harris as Bishop of Middlesbrough . |
| 17 | Lt.-Gen Rahman had held the post since August 1986 when he had been appointed in place of President Hussain Mohammad Ershad [ see p. 34812 ] . |
| 18 | The Polish Republic was proclaimed at the end of December 1989 , thus restoring the formal name which had been adopted after independence in 1918 but replaced by the name Polish People 's Republic in 1947 . |
| 19 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 20 | Some elements of the script had been leaked during production of the movie , and there was a reactionary movement against what we were trying to put onscreen . |
| 21 | A makeshift altar had been built in front of the spring . |
| 22 | In actual fact little had been written about Cubism by April 1910 , but Boccioni 's work of 1911 shows some indirect Cubist influence , and he was certainly in correspondence with Severini , who , though as yet little touched by the movement , was a friend of both Picasso and Braque . |
| 23 | The letter was signed by a Mr Graham Lytham and had been written on notepaper with the heading Granby , Hemingford and Bowles , Solicitors . |
| 24 | I saw that the cell was clean but that several English names had been written in pencil on the wall . |
| 25 | Once he and his henchman had been obliged to leave the wrecked apartment on the avenue Foch , he had been filled with apprehension at having to report his failure direct to Teheran . |
| 26 | Like most people who knew Joyce well , she had been filled with trepidation at the prospect of seeing someone trying on Joyce 's inimitable footwear . |
| 27 | She had once embraced the world with her enthusiasm , laughed at life , had been filled with compassion for those less fortunate , and what was she now ? |
| 28 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 29 | Dugan suggested that the military had concluded that air power was the only way of forcing Iraq out of Kuwait if war broke out , and that a massive bombing campaign had been planned in order to " decapitate " the Iraqi leadership by targeting Saddam , his family and his senior commanders . |
| 30 | This in turn made it possible to consider changes in language behaviour which occurred during childhood as products of the same mechanisms which had been documented in respect of other kinds of behaviour ; verbal behaviour was to be understood in terms of the same learning principles which had been derived from studies of the behaviour of rats , pigeons and monkeys . |