Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been tossed into a bed of nettles against the wall of the churchyard . |
| 2 | Convergence associated with the continuing subduction of the remaining oceanic lithosphere along the plate margin would be maintained until the plate boundary had been fixed at a sufficient number of points to resist further subduction . |
| 3 | Foolishly , I had not bothered to carry out any of the psychic protective techniques I had been taught as a ‘ probationer healer ’ at a school of esoteric studies . |
| 4 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 5 | This is the first time UEFA has banned a Dutch club , but two years ago the national team were ordered to replay a European Championship qualifying match behind closed doors after Cyprus 's goalkeeper had been struck by a firework . |
| 6 | On reviving him the man told the head ganger that he had been struck by a blow at the back of the head yet medical evidence revealed no sign of injury , furthermore his whistle , flags , and lamp were never found . |
| 7 | Le Pen , meanwhile , had been cleared by a Versailles court on July 2 of " publicly insulting " the Minister for Public Services , Michel Durafour in September 1988 , by using the word-play " Durafour-crematoire " ( " four crematoire " having been the normal description for the furnaces used for burning bodies in Nazi Germany ) [ see pp. 36230 ; 37683 ] . |
| 8 | His father had been paralysed by a fall from a white stallion . |
| 9 | Mrs Burrows had been paralysed by a stroke . |
| 10 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 11 | This year BGS enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site on Triassic sandstones where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 12 | Each of the wide windows facing the road had been blocked with a sheet of paper . |
| 13 | They lit the candles they had brought and made their way along a passage which led out of the chamber , gazing wordlessly — he could n't remember that they had spoken at all while in there — at the arched limestone walls , at the tunnels that from time to time branched from this central artery , once into a wide gallery whose egress had been blocked by a fall of stone . |
| 14 | The official peace negotiations in Rome had been blocked by a succession of differences over a wide range of political and constitutional issues . |
| 15 | By that time six water-powered mills had been erected along a two-mile stretch of the River Don . |
| 16 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 17 | The house itself , she found , had been erected in a shallow depression in the mound surmounting the central part of the island . |
| 18 | A generation earlier Naevius had been silenced after a conflict with the aristocratic Metelli . |
| 19 | He quoted " dramatic data " which had been presented to a recent meeting of a committee charged with deciding the future of the shell . |
| 20 | The subject had been raised at a meeting between Prime Minister Petre Roman and President Mitterrand of France in Paris on July 18 . |
| 21 | Christian churches throughout Jerusalem , Israel proper and the occupied territories took the unprecedented step of closing in protest for the whole day of April 27 , and the controversy encouraged an improvement in relations between the normally conservative Greek Orthodox community and Palestinian Christians ; the Middle East International of April 27 reported that , soon after the Jews took over the hospice , a Palestinian flag had been raised on a nearby Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the Russian right wing had recently been reinforced by a new army , the Ninth , which had been raised for a drive on Berlin but was instead deployed against Austria . |
| 23 | Henry of Grosmont , whose earldom of Lancaster had been raised to a duchy in 1351 , died of the plague on 23 March 1361 , leaving two daughters as his coheiresses . |
| 24 | His erstwhile subordinate had been raised to a position of considerable power now , and he would no doubt recall how little mercy he had been shown by his former Controller . |
| 25 | Souza 's commitments were no doubt the more complicated because he had been raised as a Catholic , and had been taught that the eroticism of Hindu religious philosophy was wicked . |
| 26 | The matter had been raised in a petition to the parliament of 1305 , but was only confirmed now , presumably because , the papal see then being vacant , Edward was waiting to employ the statute as a lever on the new pope . |
| 27 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 28 | By the time Callaghan took over , the average interval had been increased to a little over two years . |
| 29 | Government concern over the country 's economic performance had been increased by a current-account deficit of $646,000,000 in the first two months of 1990 , compared with a surplus of $888,000,000 in the same period a year earlier . |
| 30 | I do not suppose that in every case it would be worth the trouble that would be caused to the taxing authorities if they were to inquire into every deposit account and find if the interest had been increased , unless it had been increased by a large amount . |