Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] and [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 10-20 per cent of prisoners had been exchanged and not all monitoring mechanisms were in place . |
| 2 | Propaganda had given us indigestion , and reports of how many aeroplanes had been destroyed and how many ships had been sunk were becoming monotonous if not unbelievable . |
| 3 | Nothing was left of the hundreds of thousands of pounds — perhaps as much as half the floating capital of Scotland — that had been invested and over half the colonists were dead of hunger or disease . |
| 4 | In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade . |
| 5 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |