Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A selection of new books added to stock is listed below : |
| 2 | The words seemed to have been dragged up one by one from the depths of himself , like prisoners loaded with chains , and released to the world only with great reluctance . |
| 3 | Suddenly our roles seemed to have been reversed . |
| 4 | His anxieties seemed to have been left behind in Cairo . |
| 5 | Both the branches studied had been influenced by this political directive . |
| 6 | And surprisingly only one in five teenagers questioned had been taught about homosexuality and lesbianism in school . |
| 7 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |
| 8 | Invariably the cases studied had been referred for a variety of concerns and worries about the children but there was no unequivocal evidence that the children were abused according to any definition . |
| 9 | The judge ruled that the whole operation including the obtaining of fingerprints on the receipts had to be considered as a whole , and , since the evidence at the shop had admittedly been obtained from the appellants by a trick after the offences charged had been committed , he had a discretion at common law to exclude the challenged evidence if its admission would prejudice a fair trial . |
| 10 | In the present case the judge decided that , since the evidence from Stardust Jewellers had admittedly been obtained from the appellants by a trick and after the offences charged had been committed , he had a discretion to exclude the evidence if its admission would prejudice a fair trial . |
| 11 | Despite the widespread feeling that there had been a victory for parental rights , many of the Dewsbury parents claimed to have been acting for the sake of their children . |
| 12 | Among the numerous culture plates awaiting inspection or disposal , Fleming noticed one unusual one , contaminated by a mould around which the staphylococci appeared to have been lysed ( dissolved ) . |
| 13 | Flicking through the register , she then noticed that most of the Wednesdays appeared to have been kept free , and as she pondered this strange fact Silas returned to the office . |
| 14 | It was reported that by Aug. 19 , 75 per cent of vouchers purchased had been traded for company shares . |
| 15 | He had bullet wounds said to have been inflicted by Mr Athulathmudali 's bodyguard , and had apparently finished himself off by taking cyanide , a method of suicide used by Tamil Tiger guerrillas . |
| 16 | THE prospect of a tour to South Africa has fired up the imagination of senior ALL BLACKS said to have been contemplating retirement after the World Cup . |
| 17 | Opposition groups continued to call for Diouf 's resignation and the holding of fresh elections [ for 1988 legislative elections , which government opponents claimed had been rigged , see pp. 35812-13 ] . |
| 18 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 19 | The springs that hold the reversers shut had been loosened , the bolts securing it removed . |
| 20 | The kitchens appeared to have been designed for human use , judging from the height of the working surfaces and the sheer size of the ladles , pots and pans and other pieces of equipment . |
| 21 | To increase the ethnic homogeneity within the regions , families of patients and controls had to have been resident in the region for at least two generations and all their grandparents had to have been born in Europe ; all participants were caucasians . |
| 22 | On Dec. 5 Japan extended a grant-in-aid worth 4,876 million yen which officials said had been promised in 1988 and therefore did not affect Japan 's temporary ban on economic co-operation . |
| 23 | Some of the most serious allegations of child torture concerned South Africa , where Koojimaans reported that " 80 to 90 per cent of children detained under State of Emergency regulations over the past five years had alleged being tortured in detention " . |
| 24 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 25 | Moreover , a close reading of the quoted language in Section 3 above reveals that it neither provided a cause of action for non-delivery of the goods stated to have been shipped , nor deemed the statement in the bill conclusive evidence of shipment against the carrier . |
| 26 | On April 18 , 1989 , Mugabe announced a combination of investment incentives and the easing of administrative controls which investors had said were stifling economic growth . |
| 27 | Just how far things had gone was demonstrated in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea . |
| 28 | His ride-on lawnmower was among several personal items found to have been purchased illegally with tax-free political funds . |
| 29 | To a generation emerging after victory , and to some of those who had taught them , those strengths and virtues seemed to have been underrated or ignored for too long . |
| 30 | On the one hand , the promise , the expectation , warmed the pit of his stomach and flooded him with a sense of delicious possibilities ; on the other , something in him wondered whether this was n't all too easy , especially since the reins seemed to have been removed from his hands and were being expertly manipulated by someone else . |