Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was shocked to find the puppy 's legs had been tied up with string before it was placed in a bag and dumped . |
| 3 | Three of its legs had been sawn off . |
| 4 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 5 | Arthur Scargill was in no doubt that the government intended to reduce the size of the coalmining industry substantially , through a major programme of pit closures : many tens of thousands of miners ' jobs would be at risk as more and more pits were declared uneconomic , not necessarily because the coal reserves had been worked out but rather because of the perceived costs of mining them , relative to the costs of imports . |
| 6 | After three centuries of decline , the first steps had been taken on the path to restoration . |
| 7 | More offices had been opened up in many countries . |
| 8 | The Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) announced on June 17 , however , that it would not participate , claiming that its offices had been closed down and its officials arbitrarily arrested by forces of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) . |
| 9 | A total of 79,498,240 ballots were cast , of which 1,716,757 ( 2.16 per cent ) were deemed spoilt or invalid and 1,525,410 ( 1.92 per cent ) were not counted because the names of all six candidates had been crossed out . |
| 10 | The rest of the animals had been roughed off and turned away in a distant paddock . |
| 11 | Somewhere , cowbells sounded ; the animals had been brought in for the night , maybe . |
| 12 | Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder . |
| 13 | One of the young man 's eyes had been gouged out and he had been castrated . |
| 14 | The boy 's eyes had been drawn out by the Soul Eater and it gave a dry , evil chuckle of triumph . |
| 15 | Crimean Tatars had been drifting back to their former homeland since 1987 , and a June 1988 central government ruling confirmed their right to residency [ see p. 36036 ] . |
| 16 | The thought that churches and castles had been laid out to fit some geometrical pattern on the scale suggested seemed farfetched . |
| 17 | The number of ministries had been slimmed down from 32 to 24 and a number of non-party " technicians " were included . |
| 18 | Shards of glass were still falling 12 hours after the blast and computers had been blown on to the pavement . |
| 19 | In the last days , with the Red Army approaching , groups of Budapest Jews had been rounded up , more or less at random , and taken to the embankment of the Danube where they were shot . |
| 20 | Cars had been laid on in advance by Tom Warner 's telegram , and we were soon settled in our respective suites or rooms in the C.P.R. 's palatial Hotel Saskatchewan . |
| 21 | The words had been cut out of a newspaper . |
| 22 | She wrote , with an unaccustomed fluency , which made her sister wonder if the words had been thought up by her alone , that : — it would not be good for Oreste to leave here at this moment since he has been ill and though he is making a good recovery the doctor who you can be sure I was quick to call and no expense being spared but your money put to good use has said it would injure his general well-being to travel in his weakened state . |
| 23 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 24 | He said the Iranians had been carrying out assassinations , including that of his own Japanese translator . |
| 25 | The woman , tight-lipped , turned her back on them and began to slap the milk vigorously with a peeled wand spiked at one end where smaller branches had been lopped off . |
| 26 | Whereas 577 telegrams had been sent off and 1,158 received in the volost' in 1913 , the figures for 1926 were 672 and 785 respectively . |
| 27 | Oh yes , yes , they even had like they used to have savings ' weeks er salute the soldier week , they used to have promotions for National Savings you see and we used to get so much money or where they had a bid thermometer on the car park in Street which is now the extension of the Gala Baths and they used to show how much savings had been put in they used to have targets for people , to put the National Savings in , they used to have an Anglo-American friendship week . |
| 28 | A court heard emotional evidence from many elderly investors whose life savings had been wiped out by the fraud . |
| 29 | A list of 398 nominees had been drawn up ( 311 put forward on separate lists by the 15 republican CP delegations according to quotas , 85 on a list drawn up by Gorbachev in consultation with the delegation heads , and Gorbachev and Ivashko ex officio ) . |
| 30 | The whole of the floor of one of the big sheds had been turned over to the making of the signs . |