Example sentences of "had been [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In logic he had been taught to reach an acceptable conclusion by revising the steps which led to it . |
| 2 | Three enormous stands had been erected to form an open square round the 18th green . |
| 3 | It was two more hours before they reached the barbed-wire perimeter that had been erected to stop the Germans breaking through . |
| 4 | I argued earlier that profound changes in the division of labour by sectors and by strata had been tending to unsettle the ‘ working class'/ ‘ middle class ’ partition of the population in certain respects , over the 1960s . |
| 5 | Lawyers acting on behalf of the defendants had claimed that neither evidence nor witnesses had been presented to support the prosecution . |
| 6 | She was of course interested in his progress , but as he had already told them , a mother substitute had been appointed to give the child his direct physical care . |
| 7 | He had been appointed to manage the Laboratory and he would manage it in his own style . |
| 8 | Another , now familiar , name that appeared in the minutes was that of Dr. N. R. W. Wynn-Williams who had been appointed to assist the medical officer for Great Barford district . |
| 9 | That he had a thumb in many pies was undeniable : he served as sheriff in both Surrey and Sussex and had been appointed to head a commission examining the revenues of the confiscated estates of George Duke of Clarence , the king 's brother . |
| 10 | Aoun , a Maronite Christian and former Army Commander , had been appointed to head an interim military government in September 1988 by the outgoing President Amin Gemayel [ see pp. 36361-63 ] . |
| 11 | Viktor Barannikov , who had been appointed to head the " super-ministry " , became director of the Russian Federal Security Agency , and Viktor Yerin was appointed Russian Interior Minister . |
| 12 | The Committee had been appointed to consider the Foreign Office only and , although they heard a considerable amount of evidence about rebuilding the War Department as part of the denigration of Pennethorne , they specifically excluded it from their Report . |
| 13 | Because twin gables flanking a central valley gutter had been adopted to cap the elevation of the 1922 extension , it was not possible to form an upper storey in this section . |
| 14 | The pupils had been learning to make the mixture in the school 's kitchen , and although there were a few minor mishaps none of the pancakes stuck to the ceiling . |
| 15 | Soon after Haig-Thomas had left us we passed a shrine to Sheikh Husain ; the white-washed dome with four turrets had been built to commemorate a place where the saint had lived alone for years , praying and fasting . |
| 16 | The prison in Matagalpa had been built to hold a maximum of 600 , and in January 1989 there were 530 occupants . |
| 17 | A centre island had been built to divide the oncoming and ongoing traffic . |
| 18 | She gazed at the stubby brick lighthouse , which was over two hundred years old , and had been built to guide the fishing boats home safely to harbour . |
| 19 | In the late nineteenth century a succession of small lines had been built to connect the Malayan tin mines to the coast . |
| 20 | The airstrip itself had been built to serve a golf and diving resort that a consortium of Dutch and American businessmen had planned to build on Straker 's Cay , but the money had run out before the hotel or marina had been built and all that was left of their grandiose plans was this pinkish runway made of compacted coral and a few abandoned cement mixers which rusted forlornly where the hotel 's swimming pool was to have been built . |
| 21 | Where great houses , from the middle ages into the seventeenth century , had been built to contain a single household in an ordered hierarchy beneath one roof , their classical counterparts in the eighteenth century and Regency became increasingly an expression of stratification into two quite distinct classes , though as yet on nothing like the scale of the grand Victorian house . |
| 22 | The vicarage had been built to match the church and the style of the rooms had not yet , and perhaps never would , become fashionable again . |
| 23 | Half their supplies had been lost crossing the river including all the beer and tobacco . |
| 24 | It had been planned to take the aircraft up to 5,000ft and carry out some general handling checks , but I never got up that high , consequently I ended up doing a figure of eights over Duxford at 300ft . |
| 25 | It had been planned to hold the talks in Abuja , Nigeria on Oct. 28 and Nov. 7 under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity [ see p. 38323 ] . |
| 26 | He later also revealed that it had been planned to install a new government including prominent political exiles Mohammed Mzali and Ahmed Ben Salah . |
| 27 | Plans once agreed could be unmade , at a practical level , but somehow , and on some other level , what had been planned remained a possibility and hung around to haunt them . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 29 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 30 | This interview had been granted to set the record straight . |