Example sentences of "[noun] had been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 3 | In 1944 a Special Air Service Brigade had been formed in Ayrshire . |
| 4 | The formation of a Franco-German military force had been under discussion for several years , and a 4,000-strong brigade had been agreed in principle in November 1987 [ see p. 35665 ; 35913 ] and started operations in October 1990 [ see p. 38473 ] . |
| 5 | The completion of the West European scheme for economic recovery and the formation by the East Europeans of the Cominform in September 1947 , meant that the Continent had been severed in two . |
| 6 | what methods had been used in the review ; |
| 7 | The relevant considerations had been stated in Flemming ( 1973 ) 57 Cr.App.R. 524 , Bell ( 1989 ) 11 Cr.App.R . |
| 8 | Prior to the civil war of 1990 , an opposition coalition had been formed in 1986 by the Liberian Action Party ( LAP , Jackson F. Doe l. ) ; the Liberian Unification Party ( LUP , William Gabriel Kpolleh l. ) ; and the Unity Party ( UP , Edward Kesselly l . ) . |
| 9 | The IDB president , Enrique Iglesias of Uruguay , had said on April 4 that although Japanese investment had been rising in Chile , Mexico , Brazil and Venezuela , " we see potential for much more " . |
| 10 | By the time of Johnson 's accession , the second generation West Indians ' enthusiasm for sport was beginning to germinate and , by the end of the decade , decisive steps had been made in both athletics and soccer . |
| 11 | When Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence adviser , Ion Pacepa , defected to the United States in 1978 , he claimed that Ceauşescu had been engaged in a long-term strategic plan codenamed ‘ Red Horizon ’ . |
| 12 | We found that since GCE had been published in 1972 , ideas on grammar , and knowledge of English grammar , had changed considerably . |
| 13 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 14 | By then , the Smethwick factory had trebled in size , and new offices had been built in Broad Street . |
| 15 | By the New Year comments were creeping into the film previews , the poetry section was expanding , and permanent offices had been found in Princedale Road , Notting Hill . |
| 16 | Every nerve had been strained in the effort to prompt Lou 's memory but what she had learned could do little to prove Barney 's innocence . |
| 17 | Up to 70 white rhinos had been recorded in 1992 . |
| 18 | The Congress was told that journalists had been registered in only fifty of ninety guberniia committees . |
| 19 | An organization called Ilinden had been formed in Sofia on Nov. 14 , 1989 , to campaign for the rights of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria . |
| 20 | Dalglish 's incredible decision to leave Liverpool provoked feelings of bitterness among some Merseyside supporters , angry at the way the club had been abandoned in the crucial run-in to the season . |
| 21 | The New English Art Club had been founded in 1886 somewhat in defiance of the Royal Academy , and the Fitzroy Street Group was a dissatisfied breakaway from it . |
| 22 | He was taken to a private prison , built to his own design and whose security arrangements and guards had been vetted in advance by the cartel , situated near to his home town of Envigado , now a suburb of the city of Medellín . |
| 23 | Unlike its neighbours which were built of local stone , the vicarage had been encased in grey stucco early in its life . |
| 24 | It appeared to the Parish Councillors that the seat had been removed in conjunction with work taking place on the plinth as if to be re-sited further up the hill . |
| 25 | It appeared to the Parish Councillors that the seat had been removed in conjunction with work taking place on the plinth as if to be re-sited further up the hill . |
| 26 | The Independent of March 2 reported that a " large number " of Vietnamese combat units had been deployed in Cambodia during the past two months to halt Khmer Rouge advances . |
| 27 | In preparation for electrification , sufficient Class 411 units had been repainted in ‘ Jaffa cake ’ livery and branded the ‘ 1066 Electrics ’ to give added impact . |
| 28 | A joint communiqué issued on May 19 said that the talks between Jiang and Gorbachev had been held in a " friendly , frank and businesslike atmosphere " and had covered " the whole range of Soviet-Chinese relations " . |
| 29 | The quarries had been closed in April 1947 . |
| 30 | On the same day it was reported that 40 Liberian rebels and one Sierra Leonean soldier had been killed in fighting in southern Sierra Leone . |