Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two months later her gall bladder had been removed , but she continued to experience abdominal discomfort . |
| 2 | Hubel and his colleagues had studied the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey for many years without observing these cells and it was only when the cytochrome oxidase blobs had been demonstrated consistently and they started to look for receptive-field properties within them that they obtained these surprising results . |
| 3 | An impasse had been reached . |
| 4 | She turned on the television to watch the midday news and learned that an impasse had been reached between the American and Icelandic leaders during their discussions about the reduction of nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | An impasse had been reached , a new direction sought , and label manager Billy Kiltie had thoughts on concentrating instead on a less commercially ambitious underground label , Limbo . |
| 6 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 7 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 8 | A further step towards the creation of an Inuit homeland had been taken on April 27 when government and Inuit negotiators announced that they had initialled the Nunavut Political Accord . |
| 9 | In reality , it was part of a wider problem , perhaps best expressed in the Quadrilogue invectif of the Norman , Alain Chartier , written in 1422 when his homeland had been overrun by the English . |
| 10 | Soon-Yi Previn , 21 , adopted daughter of Allen 's former lover Mia Farrow , said the gossip had been started because her mother was jealous . |
| 11 | He was not conscious of having had any contact with a clergyman since school , where religion had been regarded as an unavoidable mixed dose of discipline , cissiness and mild buffoonery . |
| 12 | The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection . |
| 13 | The Trades Council recorded in its minutes of 28 January that elements of pressure had been put upon [ the Edinburgh printers ] , enormous sums of money had been expended , rare inducements had been held out , untruths had been circulated , even religion had been abused [ ? ] and brought to play on purpose to shake the men , and yet after all these means had been expended and an income verging on starvation , the men had remained as firm as at first . " |
| 14 | As religion had been banned there were no existing laws regulating it . |
| 15 | The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels . |
| 16 | No excessive speed had been involved . |
| 17 | As one policeman remarked after a gouger had been treated leniently by a judge , ‘ Right , we 'll get him for every wrong move he makes ’ ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 18 | Its social bases include : ( i ) the crisis , for many artists , of the transition from patronage to the market ; ( ii ) the crisis , in certain arts , of the transition from handwork to machine production ( see Chapter 4 , below ) ; ( iii ) crises within both patronage and the market , in a period of intense and general social conflict ; ( iv ) the attachment of certain groups to a pre-capitalist and/or pre-democratic social order , in which some arts had been accorded privilege within a general privilege ; ( v ) the attachment of other groups to the democratization of the social order , as part of the process of general liberation and human enrichment to which the arts , if they were allowed , could contribute : ( vi ) a more general opposition , often overlapping and even seeming to unite these diverse political views , to the practices and values of a ‘ commercial ’ and ‘ mechanical ’ civilization , from which the practice and values of the arts could be distinguished . |
| 19 | Three enormous stands had been erected to form an open square round the 18th green . |
| 20 | However , examination of the microstructure of the metal at a convenient break provided conclusive proof that the stands had been made by casting : the structure is typical of a cast bronze , with 15 per cent lead in the alloy ( fig. 511c ) . |
| 21 | The crowd in the stands had been roused to fever pitch by the drama of the finish and the almost unbelievable manner in which Dawn Run had come through to win , and now complete mayhem broke out . |
| 22 | Once the usual carpetbaggers , liars and opportunists had been discounted , there was a heart-lifting common thread , a real desire to work for a paper promising to lift them out of the cynicism and virtual despair of the current newspaper scene . |
| 23 | And the Committee was satisfied both with the way the guidelines had been observed and with the resulting coverage . |
| 24 | In the absence of the Orkney guidelines , she asked to be told which guidelines had been used , and whether these had ever been placed before the Island 's Social Work Committee for their approval . |
| 25 | Then in the account of how the risen Lord Jesus Himself drew near and walked with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus ( Luke 24 verses 13/31 ) we read of how He explained from the scriptures that all the events surrounding His crucifixion had been foreshadowed and foretold in the Word of God . |
| 26 | It is doubtful that the Children 's Department could have made the series anyway , as one of Sydney Newman 's other shake-ups had been to wind down this Department , dispersing much of its talent throughout the rest of the Drama Group . |
| 27 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 28 | Khmara had been arrested inside the Supreme Soviet on Nov. 17 , 1990 , as a result of an incident during the October Revolution holiday on Nov. 7 when he and his co-defendants had been involved in a scuffle with an undercover KGB ( State Security ) officer in a pedestrian subway in Kiev . |
| 29 | Instrument zu singen gesetzt ( Königsberg , 1638–50 ) which enjoyed enormous popularity ; by 1652 the first five Teile had reached their third or fourth editions and a number of separate songs had been republished in other people 's miscellanies . |
| 30 | He dubbed them cheats , and told them they were swindling their audiences out of what he called the last great procession , when , after the wedding songs had been sung and the dances danced , the characters took their melancholy way off into darkness , following each other into oblivion . |