Example sentences of "had [adv] been [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiffs contended that they had thereby been deprived of the opportunity to bid for H.F. Co. but pill J. rejected their claim because while the law certainly allowed a freedom to bid for property that was neither a ‘ business asset ’ of the plaintiffs ' nor a legal right which the law would protect . |
| 2 | Heads of departments had thereby been deprived of ‘ a large measure of independence ’ . |
| 3 | Accordingly the defendant had effectively been deprived of his right to have the breath specimen replaced by a specimen of blood or urine in accordance with section 7(4) and , as in Anderton v. Lythgoe , the breath specimen had been inadmissible . |
| 4 | Only a much less comprehensive record had hitherto been kept of business done in Parliament . |
| 5 | dissertation the young Prince Louis de Broglie proposed a way in which waves might be associated with objects like electrons which had hitherto been thought of in purely particle terms ( see Appendix , A2 ) . |
| 6 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 7 | But John Bullock , senior partner at Deloitte UK , admitted that Touche Ross had only been informed of his decision not to merge with them ‘ a few days ago ’ . |
| 8 | Praising Webster for his " integrity , effectiveness , and insight " , Bush stated that he had only been informed of the development on May 7 . |
| 9 | The first change they noticed as a result of the Revolution was the indiscriminate and wasteful hacking down of the woods by the peasants : large trees had merely been deprived of their thinner branches . |
| 10 | It had already been stripped of the lighting side of its business , the more profitable side , and now the tramway undertaking was to be absorbed into the unified transport system , of which so much had been heard . |
| 11 | AT US insistence the existing agreement , which had come into force in 1987 , had already been stripped of its provisions to intervene in the market . |
| 12 | He said most ticket-holders had already been warned of the cancellation and would be given a full refund . |
| 13 | A particularly important decision was that in R. v. Thomson Holidays ( 1973 C.A. ) where the defendants had already been convicted of an offence under section 14 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 by making false statements in a holiday brochure . |
| 14 | Thirty-six defendants had already been convicted of fraud in relation to housing in Washington DC . |
| 15 | Commentary : where an offender is dealt with for a breach of a community service order , he must be sentenced ( if the order is revoked ) in a manner in which he could have been sentenced by the court which made the order , if he is in breach of a probation order , the court may sentence the offender as if he had just been convicted of the offence concerned . |
| 16 | we may safely say that nothing so remarkable as the scene of Westminster-Hall during the first three days of this week , had ever been known of by architects . |
| 17 | So far as he knew , no photograph had ever been taken of Horowitz . |
| 18 | Through his telescope Galileo observed more things in the heavens than had ever been dreamed of : moons of Jupiter and myriads of stars invisible to the naked eye . |
| 19 | But the cubicle in which the yellow sheet had been found could reveal no further secrets , and all hope had early been abandoned of learning anything from the scores of footprints which had criss-crossed the grassy area since the murder . |
| 20 | Yoshihisa Tabuchi , the president of Nomura ( the world 's largest stockbroker ) , and Takuya Iwasaki , the head of Nikko , resigned their posts on June 24 after their companies had also been accused of lending money to the head of a major gangster syndicate known as Inagawa-Kai , and of taking illegal actions to boost the values of shares which he held . |
| 21 | Yoma 's former husband Ibrahim al Ibrahim , appointed by Menem as Chief of Customs at Buenos Aires international airport , along with a former government official , Mario Caserta , had also been accused of drug laundering in the same report . |
| 22 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 23 | So great was the ability of sapient pearwood to follow its master anywhere , the gravegoods of dead emperors had traditionally been made of it … |
| 24 | Both had originally been suspected of his murder . |
| 25 | He had originally been accused of the offence along with five other men , who were jailed on Tuesday for terms ranging from four years to six years . |
| 26 | The House of Lords held that the company had correctly been convicted of making a statement which it knew to be false . |
| 27 | As the only no-strike nurses union , it had often been accused of being a Government ‘ lackey ’ . |
| 28 | Up until then , neither boy had even been told of their parents ' divorce . |
| 29 | The officers had reportedly been accused of disloyalty to the Assad regime . |
| 30 | The turning point came in July 1973 , when a White House official almost accidentally let it be known that tape recordings had regularly been made of all conversations conducted by the President in the White House . |