Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers acting on behalf of the defendants had claimed that neither evidence nor witnesses had been presented to support the prosecution . |
| 2 | She was of course interested in his progress , but as he had already told them , a mother substitute had been appointed to give the child his direct physical care . |
| 3 | He had been appointed to manage the Laboratory and he would manage it in his own style . |
| 4 | That he had a thumb in many pies was undeniable : he served as sheriff in both Surrey and Sussex and had been appointed to head a commission examining the revenues of the confiscated estates of George Duke of Clarence , the king 's brother . |
| 5 | Because twin gables flanking a central valley gutter had been adopted to cap the elevation of the 1922 extension , it was not possible to form an upper storey in this section . |
| 6 | Soon after Haig-Thomas had left us we passed a shrine to Sheikh Husain ; the white-washed dome with four turrets had been built to commemorate a place where the saint had lived alone for years , praying and fasting . |
| 7 | The prison in Matagalpa had been built to hold a maximum of 600 , and in January 1989 there were 530 occupants . |
| 8 | She gazed at the stubby brick lighthouse , which was over two hundred years old , and had been built to guide the fishing boats home safely to harbour . |
| 9 | The airstrip itself had been built to serve a golf and diving resort that a consortium of Dutch and American businessmen had planned to build on Straker 's Cay , but the money had run out before the hotel or marina had been built and all that was left of their grandiose plans was this pinkish runway made of compacted coral and a few abandoned cement mixers which rusted forlornly where the hotel 's swimming pool was to have been built . |
| 10 | The vicarage had been built to match the church and the style of the rooms had not yet , and perhaps never would , become fashionable again . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 13 | This interview had been granted to set the record straight . |
| 14 | The only organized contingent were the men , who had been relegated to run the crèche in a nearby hall , set up each morning with military precision . |
| 15 | Typically , it had been Ivy , he 'd learned , who had been sent to collect the letter from Ruggiero which the gang had left in the rubbish skip . |
| 16 | This was in the foothills of the Mournes , whence he had been sent to take a photograph of bees and beekeeping . |
| 17 | A letter had been sent to remind the authority . |
| 18 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 19 | The child had been sent to fetch the doctor for a sick neighbour , and was on her way home again . |
| 20 | But the Russian air force press centre in Moscow said Maj Shipko 's plane and another SU-27 had been sent to prevent an attack on a paratroop base near the rebel capital of Gudauta , about 20 miles north of the frontline . |
| 21 | On Sept. 30 , 120 more monitors had been sent to cover the situation on the Hungarian border and in Bosnia-Hercegovina , bringing their total to 200 . |
| 22 | It had , he thought ruefully , been good for his self-conceit to find that her devotion did n't , after all , extend to leaving London where , surprisingly , she had been discovered to have a life of her own , to join him in the fens . |
| 23 | FitzAlan could not have made his opinion of her clearer , and yet for an insane moment there , shaken by his reasoned judgements of Stephen and Matilda , she had been tempted to confess the truth and beg for his help . |
| 24 | Notwithstanding the two occasions on which he had been tempted to abandon the Army for politics , and the cordial relations he had maintained with the CEDA , Franco was disdainful and suspicious of politicians . |
| 25 | He had been tempted to use the President 's Land-Rover but the tracks would have shown . |
| 26 | He was attending a conference which had been called to discuss the formation of a police force in Oxfordshire . |
| 27 | Nothing had been done to prettify the site as at Sizewell , on the Suffolk coast , or to produce the pleasantly laid-out grounds of smooth lawn , flowering trees and shrubs which so agreeably impressed him on his periodic visits to Winfrith in Dorset . |
| 28 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 29 | She guessed that , whatever had been done to minimise the damage , he 'd have a headache by now , and she could n't stop herself feeling an immediate pang of sympathy . |
| 30 | The difference between the early days and 1976 was that cars were going a lot faster — Lauda himself had been the first to break the magical seven-minute lap in 1975 — and that very little had been done to make the track safer . |