Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , almost all of this debt had been raised from British creditors . |
| 2 | A staggering £300,000 had been raised from local people and businesses , some of it in the form of covenants . |
| 3 | Although regular army numbers had been increased from 10,500 to 11,000 in November [ see p. 38588 ] , these 500 additional troops had in fact returned to England before Christmas ; the Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke conceded on Jan. 9 that " you might take the view with hindsight that a different decision could have been taken " . |
| 4 | In each case the siblings concerned had been separated from each other when they were babies . |
| 5 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 6 | In addition , numbers of Mozambican refugees had been repatriated from neighbouring countries . |
| 7 | In the space of 15 years , species had been lost from each of six sites monitored off the Florida Keys ; at all but one of the sites , the total amount of coral present had shrunk . |
| 8 | I spoke to Sikh and Hindu children in Southall and none of them had been withdrawn from religious education lessons . |
| 9 | A total of 44,000 Soviet troops plus vehicles and materiel had been withdrawn from eastern Germany between Jan. 1 and May 12 , 1991 ; a further 22,000 service personnel left in June . |
| 10 | For example , their report stated that syllabuses for pupils of lower attainment had been constructed from those designed for pupils in the top quarter of attainment by deleting a few topics and reducing the depth of treatment of others . |
| 11 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 12 | And also er letters that had been sent from head office . |
| 13 | David Pannick , QC , for Continental , told the judge the case raised a matter of general public importance concerning the powers of a Secretary of State to restrict reception of satellite broadcasting programmes that had been transmitted from other European Community member states . |
| 14 | He had been called from this office to so many bodies , in such different settings , such different states of dissolution , old , young , pathetic , horrifying , having in common only the one fact , that they were violently dead and by another 's hand . |
| 15 | According to the Financial Times of July 17 , foreign aid agencies had so far donated US$400,000,000 while an additional US$400,000,000 had been generated from internal sources . |
| 16 | Dale 's new owners , Sir David Guyler , Eric Dring , and Colin Speed who established the company in the early nineteen seventies it was taken over by the multinational Beaufort Group in nineteen eighty nine and by September this year the workforce had been cut from two hundred to just a hundred and ten . |
| 17 | Dr Grant said that , since 1982 , beds had been cut from 800 to 450 , with Barts effectively running half empty and thus inefficiently . |
| 18 | Ten Independent Companies , each with 20 officers and 270 men ( see Appendix 2 ) had been formed from Territorial Army volunteers with a leavening of regular and reservist soldiers . |
| 19 | Last month I announced that applications had been invited from 14 units for NHS trust status in April 1993 . |
| 20 | On Sept. 3 written responses to the government 's proposed changes to the electoral law had been invited from eight political parties , including the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
| 21 | The draft programme was published in the central press for public discussion in October 1985 ; altogether , Gorbachev told the 27th Congress the following February , six million responses had been received from ordinary citizens , raising a whole variety of issues . |
| 22 | Complaints had been received from local residents that their wash-houses were being abused , and he expected that by the end of his beat at 6 a.m. he would be busy enough . |
| 23 | A considerable amount of planning and research had gone on , and help had been received from Green Space , a group sponsored by Hampshire County Council . |
| 24 | It had been exhumed from Locked Safe no. 5 where it usually stood between Pranks of Priapus and The Grecian Way of Love . |
| 25 | The skin on her face had been scraped from one cheekbone . |
| 26 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 27 | Her Majesty has honoured the Works by visiting it on three occasions , the first on 11 March 1948 as Princess Elizabeth , when she toured the Works and inspected the two new saloons that had been converted from two ex-Chairman 's Saloons ( built Wolverton 1942 ) for the personal use of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 28 | All of that would have been well known to the Ephesians , who had been converted from false gods who had no glory , to be followers of the one true God whose glory had been demonstrated in the splendour , the brightness and the beauty of the Saviour . |
| 29 | In the Countess 's childhood , before the Revolution , and before Belgium had been liberated from Austrian rule by the French , women had been taught to glide along a floor , their feet hidden by wide skirts and their slippers barely leaving the polished boards . |
| 30 | The NRA said Weardale had been saved from immediate flooding because rain turned to snow . |