Example sentences of "had [adv] been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 2 | One patient was treated with a drug not normally used for the condition after it had successfully been tested on her blood . |
| 3 | Moreover , for large numbers of individuals the new per capita charge represented a considerable increase over their equivalent share of the rates which had hitherto been based on notional values of the homes which they occupied . |
| 4 | Youngsters who had hitherto been isolated on farms and factories could now take part in informed discussion on a wide variety of subjects . |
| 5 | It had all been said on the track where both McLaren 's new MP4/7As , driven by Senna and team-mate Gerhard Berger , were non-finishers . |
| 6 | Virgin 's payments had all been made on time , and as far as he was aware there was no problem at all . |
| 7 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 8 | Lancashire police said later that the 16 people arrested had all been released on police bail after questioning . |
| 9 | The European Communities ( EC ) suspended a trade and co-operation agreement which had only been initialled on June 8 , and withdrew an invitation to Romania to attend a meeting of the G-24 nations in Paris in July . |
| 10 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 11 | However , an Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) report on Sept. 18 revealed that the exchange of prisoners had suddenly been interrupted on Sept. 15 reportedly because there were only a few prisoners in Iraq , while almost 20,000 remained in Iran , many of whom were unwilling to return to Iraq . |
| 12 | ‘ Suffice to say that six of those invoices , supposedly coming from Rasiklal in Bombay , had apparently been typed on an Inca typewriter in England , ’ said prosecutor James Curtis . |
| 13 | The Croats had apparently been put on red-alert . |
| 14 | Five former employees at the post office had already been indicted on charges of drug dealing and embezzlement . |
| 15 | In a further development concerning the scandal , it was announced by the authorities on Dec. 22 that no further indictments would be filed either against Kanemaru — who had already been indicted on minor charges — or against any of the other Diet members implicated in the receipt of Sagawa Kyubin funds . |
| 16 | ( At this point agreement had already been reached on a number of issues , including revised provisions on human rights , environmental protection and birth control measures ; the admission of new members ; and the doubling of the new convention 's duration to 10 years . ) |
| 17 | By the first evening 16–17,000 men had already been mustered on Haldon Hill and other reinforcements , including 7000 tin-workers from Cornwall , were on their way , but the Lord Lieutenant of the county , the Earl of Bath , who arrived to take command , was an experienced regular officer and was not prepared to risk sending the militia against Louis XIV 's troops . |
| 18 | It had already been confirmed on Sept. 24 that the government had banned Nomura , Daiwa , Nikko and Yamaichi from bidding for government bond issues for a period of one month , as a penalty for their actions . |
| 19 | Fawehinmi , charged over a magazine article in which he accused Babangida of planning to cling to power , had already been sentenced on Jan. 5 to 12 months imprisonment for contempt of court , but had been released on bail pending an appeal . |
| 20 | Inflammatory proclamations had already been pasted on the cathedral in Riga . |
| 21 | A limit had already been placed on the extent of national assistance two years earlier so as to prevent member states from engaging in self-defeating competitive bidding to attract mobile investment , and also in recognition of the basic idea of the Treaty of Rome that there should be a single market with free competition . |
| 22 | His entire spindlewinter 's supply of candles had already been strewn on the floor , mixed with his store of kindling wood . |
| 23 | A very large amount had already been collected on a voluntary basis by religious groups for the Famine , making it seem almost superfluous or extortionate to do more . |
| 24 | When the Sutton route was replaced by trolleybuses , the remainder joined them at Brixton in December 1935 , but the contract with Cohens for their scrapping had already been signed on 12 October . |
| 25 | He had evidently been in fear of his life and purchased the weapon for that reason , since he had already been attacked on two previous occasions . |
| 26 | He did n't know that Customs had already been put on notice to clear them through . |
| 27 | They had been handed over amicably in November 1957 , as work had already been started on building a staging airfield on the Indian Ocean island of Gan , just south of Ceylon . |
| 28 | Kelly had plans to feature Crawford , but the studio abandoned the project , even though two million dollars had already been spent on it . |
| 29 | It was written out of deep respect for the victims and their kin , and The Smiths felt it was an important enough song to put on their last single even though it had already been released on L.P. In a word it is a memorial to the children and all like them who have sufferered such a fate . |
| 30 | The UKAEA had already been working on two prototypes — a high temperature successor to the AGR ( called the Dragon ) and the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor , another uniquely British concept . |