Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been make " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The USSR , however , mindful of the fact that Cuba had been made into a prominent campaign issue by both contenders for the US presidency , paid no heed to the wave of Cuban nationalisations of US property during August-October 1960 . |
| 2 | Previously Gould had been making other extraordinary discoveries from Darwin 's collection . |
| 3 | Philip Augustus 's marriage to Ingeborg of Denmark had been made in the hope that the Danish king , who was pro-Welf would support him against the English . |
| 4 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 5 | The decision to operate in Devon had been made and a suitable ( thatched ) cottage to live in had been found . |
| 6 | Sewell had been made responsible to Coleman for maintaining discipline among the students . |
| 7 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 8 | The only statement to Twitchings had been made by H.P.I. , namely that there was no registered hire purchase agreement relating to the car in question . |
| 9 | Linda had her own part-time job helping out at Oxfam and listening to infants read at the nearby Primary School , so she had less time in fact than her husband , for Frank had been made redundant from his job in electronics in October . |
| 10 | Although Mr Braley had been made aware of the need for absolute secrecy , he had put the SFO 's investigation at risk . |
| 11 | Born in Finland in 1917 , his first visit to Russia had been made in November 1991 . |
| 12 | Some 1,100 of BCCI 's 1,260 staff in the UK were given redundancy notices ; 80 per cent of the bank 's 480 employees in the UAE had been made redundant on Oct. 2 . |
| 13 | James , when he finally reached Corunna , was to remain there until a successful lodgement in England had been made . |
| 14 | Matthew had been making a detailed fire-protection plan for the acres which Fairfax had wanted to replant or afforest . |
| 15 | At the time , neither Ruskin Road nor the following Beynon Road had been made up or developed and for some time , the trams ran on what in effect was reserved track . |
| 16 | Jackson had been made redundant as a result of a drastic decline in orders and Turner 's company had gone into liquidation . |
| 17 | Even the small river Slea had been made navigable for light craft and Sleaford had benefited from ‘ a cheap and easy transit for corn , coal , timber , stone , lime and other merchandise , to and from Boston , Lincoln and other places ’ . |
| 18 | He did n't believe like his Mum , that Lee had been making trouble , knocking and then running off . |
| 19 | This was chiefly because Geoffrey Stallibrass had been made Director of Aviation Safety in the Ministry of Aviation and his keen sense of the practical got things moving . |
| 20 | Attempts to establish a British colony in Virginia had been made by Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1580s . |
| 21 | The COI also made it widely-known that the shy Blewitt had been made a Freeman of the City of London in recognition of Dunston-based DMB 's skills in tackling the restoration of the city 's Blackfriars Bridge . |
| 22 | When Laplace , late in the eighteenth century , applied his nebular hypothesis to the problem , deliberately dispensing with concepts of design , it could look as if Newton 's God had been made redundant . |
| 23 | And should n't Lucy say something about her story , the subtle and extravagant passes Jay had been making at her all evening ? |
| 24 | He claimed half-hour warnings to the Samaritans and police in Merseyside had been made two minutes after the bombs were planted . |
| 25 | Pressed by the opposition to resign , Takeshita stated : " If I quit , it will be taken to prove that … the Prime Minister of Japan had been made by gangsters . |
| 26 | Boucher had been making a habit of beating Britain 's best 10stone 7lb men in Gary Jacobs , Mickey Hughes and Kirkland Laing , and Loughran 's win must be one of the finer British achievements of the past 12 months . |
| 27 | It was August 1980 — after her divorce from Hubert had been made absolute . |
| 28 | TriQuint had been making the chips designed by Gazelle 's researchers , and its name was retained by the new company , which last year had a turnover of about $30 million and showed a small profit . |
| 29 | Before the death of the Empress Constance on 27 November 1198 , scarcely ten months after Innocent 's election , Innocent had been made Frederick 's guardian . |
| 30 | Labour candidate Alan Milburn hit back saying the Tories were rattled by the campaign and the people of Darlington had been made poorer by 13 years of Conservative misrule . |