Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 2 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 3 | Item — Lady Eleanor had been seen alive just before the service began by Dame Martha and Dame Elizabeth . |
| 4 | By the end of 1989 Nicaragua had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of arrears of US$150 million accumulated on loans of $160 million from that body . |
| 5 | The Magistrate , for example , when told that Mrs Wright had been taken ill , showed no interest whatsoever , and when further informed , a little later , that she had given birth , observed dryly : " I 'm surprised that she had the energy . " |
| 6 | Speculation during that time that Arafat had been killed focused attention on the lack of an obvious replacement for Arafat as PLO chair and Palestinian leader . |
| 7 | Then attention switched to a Superintendent Miller of pugnacious appearance , who described in clipped and guarded police-speak how twenty-year-old Samantha Abberley had been abducted nine days previously . |
| 8 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 9 | The French President , François Mitterrand , confirmed on Oct. 15 that Aoun had been granted political asylum as a " question of honour " and that he would be allowed to remain in the embassy indefinitely . |
| 10 | Karen said : ‘ I know Rebecca had been feeling homesick , but she got a new job which was keeping her busy . |
| 11 | Police said that their two accomplices arrested in Ireland had been carrying several addresses of safe houses in France . |
| 12 | Gemma had been left alone at home in Hammersmith , west London . |
| 13 | Previously Gould had been making other extraordinary discoveries from Darwin 's collection . |
| 14 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 15 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 16 | The two were now inside the grille together and Mena Iskander had been given strict instructions to try to secure Miss Postlethwaite a seat from which she could see Zoser clearly and if possible his wife as well . |
| 17 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 18 | Sewell had been made responsible to Coleman for maintaining discipline among the students . |
| 19 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |
| 20 | In late August González had been granted extraordinary powers which gave him total control over central government , federal agency and state company finances and the administration of enterprises operating under the Public Works and Defence ministries . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Aplin had been asking many questions about Putt , not only in connection with the robberies but with the rape of Anna too . |
| 23 | Although Mr Braley had been made aware of the need for absolute secrecy , he had put the SFO 's investigation at risk . |
| 24 | In October Bao had been hospitalized due to heart disease . |
| 25 | News broke that Steven Jones , a physicist at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) — 30 miles from Salt Lake City and rival of the University of Utah — and a team from BYU had been studying cold fusion for years independently of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 26 | Bahrain and Qatar were both members of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) , and reports emerged on July 29 that a series of GCC ministerial meetings scheduled for July had been postponed due to " rising tension " between the two countries . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 29 | Once the senior clerk in the Chancery , Nigel had been given this assignment as a benefice , a reward for long and faithful service to the Crown . |
| 30 | ‘ Take us to our hotel , ’ George and Pat asked taxi driver Markus Wermelskirchen outside a bar in Cologne , where Celtic had been thrashed 0 — 2 in the UEFA Cup . |