Example sentences of "it had [been] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sheet had been spread out on the ground , and around it had been placed a square of long hard bolsters . |
| 2 | It had been raised a year earlier at a residential conference for Wirral secondary heads with the sugestion that schools should attempt accreditation under BS 5750 . |
| 3 | Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser/Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance . |
| 4 | " The Independent " argued that it could not in natural justice be bound by an order made against another newspaper , on different facts , and which it had been given no opportunity to oppose . |
| 5 | Newton was one of them , and in spite of public fears over a similar junction elsewhere , it had been given the go-ahead . |
| 6 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 7 | It is hard to say how directly the King reminded the Company that it was doing well because it had been granted a monopoly of the English market . |
| 8 | After it had been moved a short distance away , the pilot was persuaded that the situation was all right and he accepted this , rather than face being unpopular for causing further delay . |
| 9 | For 1992 , it had been renamed the Day of the Defenders of the [ unspecified ] Homeland . |
| 10 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 11 | As it had been made an exhibit at trial they were entitled to inspect the tape in the jury room , subject to the discretion of the trial judge to prevent e.g. an unedited version containing inadmissible material from being handed over . |
| 12 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 13 | It had been posted the day they left for Algeria . |
| 14 | It had been thought no money would be forthcoming , but the new grant will be from a different department within the SAC , it emerged yesterday . |
| 15 | The announcement came as no great surprise ; except in as much as it had been thought the family might hold back in the lifetime of Sir John . |
| 16 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |
| 17 | With the Appeal Board clearing Durie it had been expected the caution would be expunged . |
| 18 | Religiously , it had been reported the Young Group made £1.1m profit in 1990 . |
| 19 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 20 | It had been held every year since I was five , and I had only missed it once , the year I was in Nigeria . |