Example sentences of "[adj] had been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acquisition contractor was Geoteam Exploration , using the vessel Nordic Explorer to deploy four 3000 metre streamers — the first time this had been done in the North Sea . |
| 2 | This had been provoked in part by uncertainty following the suspension of the IMF standby agreement of September 1988 [ see p. 36279 ] when the economy failed both the June and September 1989 tests [ for waiver of December 1988 test following hurricane see p. 36930 ] . |
| 3 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 4 | This had been documented in health studies , and is the daily experience of any worker with travellers on unauthorised sites . |
| 5 | This had been caused in part by the introduction of tax reforms without measures to take account of the loss in revenue . |
| 6 | Because this had been stated in the debate , Mr Sproat explained , it had legal standing and could not be overturned at a later date . |
| 7 | This had been authorized in a joint directive issued by Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov and Interior Minister Boris Pugo on Dec. 29 , 1990 . |
| 8 | He appears to have believed that this had been conceded in substance ‘ by the admission of all sects and all sexes , unquestioned to the Conference ’ . |
| 9 | This had been started in 1888 and progressively abandoned from 1950 . |
| 10 | This had been established in August 1949 in part to promote the arguments for unification under the direction of Pyongyang . |
| 11 | By 1923 , the public library in Springfield ( Mass. ) was circulating gramophone records ( this had been proposed in Britain by II . |
| 12 | This had been proposed in an earlier draft which was condemned by journalists as seeking to introduce " curbs … such as journalists did not experience even in the days when the CPSU was all-powerful " . |
| 13 | This had been consolidated in power by the end of the fourteenth century , after the one serious attempt to overthrow it . |
| 14 | On Sept. 24 in Brussels Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister Willy Claes agreed with his Zäirean counterpart , Pierre Lumbi , to resume Belgian bilateral assistance ; this had been frozen in May 1990 in protest at the government 's handling of student demonstrations , when some 50 students died [ see p. 37553 ] . |
| 15 | This had been proved in the relationship between Moscow and Pyongyang since 1945 . |
| 16 | This had been accomplished in the main by 1921 , thanks to the combined application of brute force in the Civil War and the persuasive methods of the press and other media . |
| 17 | Of the three Mölln victims two had lived in Germany for many years and the youngest had been born in Mölln . |
| 18 | Opposition sources claimed that at least 30 had been killed in Mashad , and more than 500 arrested ; the authorities reported one death and local residents six . |
| 19 | Police said a man aged 34 and a woman aged 30 had been arrested in connection with the death . |
| 20 | Another had been locked in a stable in its own manure for more than five months . |
| 21 | A bomb had failed to go off in St John 's Wood , London , on Aug. 6 and another had been defused in Moulsford , Oxfordshire , on Aug. 13 . |
| 22 | One had been shot in the head and had later died , another had been wounded in the knee . |
| 23 | And yet another had been caught in flagrante with the wife of the Association 's Treasurer ( ‘ on a snooker table in the Club . |
| 24 | Main rotor drive system damage somewhat similar had been reported in the case of an Exec that suffered in-flight break-up while in cruising flight over Quebec . |
| 25 | The Japanese had been trained in jungle warfare , and knew how to trek across country and live on the jungle . |
| 26 | The PVO increased its show of strength , choosing as a special focus the little town of Tantabin , 40 miles from Rangoon , where the first BNA action against the Japanese had been staged in 1945 . |
| 27 | Too much had been vested in his first family . |
| 28 | Compared to this Packard-Merlin , the Mk III had been raised in immaculate condition and its rocker covers still gleam with the original black paintwork . |
| 29 | While William III had been occupied in Ireland the French had been active in the Channel . |
| 30 | Moon Beach Central had been built in the style of a temple . |