Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Cienfuegos speech Castro confirmed that work on the Juraga nuclear power plant in Cienfuegos , the construction work on which was begun in 1972 and which was now 90 per cent complete at an estimated cost of US$1,000 million , had been halted indefinitely for lack of funds . |
| 2 | She felt as if her own emotions had been tossed brutally into a whirlwind . |
| 3 | On another occasion he had been struck once by another man at work and we were furious at him for not returning the blow . |
| 4 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 5 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 6 | As had been realised already in the model experiments , a rotor ship would not make full use of a wind blowing directly from astern . |
| 7 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 8 | Perhaps as many as 3,000 had been presented annually to Henry IV . |
| 9 | The field behaves as if it had been presented simultaneously with the target display , and so reduces the contrast between target contours and their background ( that is , the target contours will look grey rather than black ) . |
| 10 | President Vaclav Havel referred to a smear campaign against Vales , whose alleged associations with the former Communist secret police had been raised repeatedly by parliamentary deputies and journalists , although no concrete evidence had been published . |
| 11 | Those customers still paying peanuts for their waste disposal may one day wish prices had been raised moderately against them now rather than slammed up later . |
| 12 | This point had been raised before by intellectuals and they usually suffered for their lack of ‘ loyalty ’ . |
| 13 | The issue of abortion had been raised earlier in the month when , on June 23 , Bush vetoed legislation which would have lifted the federal ban on funding medical research which used tissue from abortions . |
| 14 | US officials denied reports that Iran 's recent acquisition of military hardware from Russia [ see pp. 39122 ; 39170 ; 39214 ] had been raised specifically at the Paris meeting . |
| 15 | During the war Iraq 's oil production had fallen dramatically , and to meet the shortage production had been increased elsewhere in the Gulf . |
| 16 | Subsistence should remain at 11.50 per day , as this had been increased ahead of inflation in recent years . |
| 17 | The prices for oil and gas sold to Russian enterprises had been increased sixfold from May 18 , but were still controlled . |
| 18 | The level of contributions had been increased sharply in recent years in order to make provision for a demographic trend whereby in the early part of the 21st century an increased proportion of the total population would be in receipt of retirement benefits at a time when the proportion in work ( and therefore contributing to the funds ) would be reduced . |
| 19 | In Taylor 's Level the ground was equally as hard and the rate had been increased there to £9 a fathom . |
| 20 | This proved sufficient until the reign of Charles I. He was one of ‘ the sticklers in the last Parliament ’ pricked sheriff in 1625 to prevent their election to the next ( although he was able to secure that of his son for New Shoreham ) , and in the following summer he was removed from the Sussex commission of the peace , to which he had been appointed only in 1624 . |
| 21 | Sancito Caro Brito [ named as Coco Brito on p. 37708 ] ; Jacqueline Mercedes Malagón was later appointed Education Minister in place of Pedro Gil Iturbes , who had been appointed earlier in the year but had resigned after Belaguer publicly accused him of jeopardizing an agreement between the government and the teachers ' association . |
| 22 | Her clothing had been ripped away to the waist in the horrific attack , said police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo . |
| 23 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 24 | This might have resulted from their experience of two courses that had been run successfully during those hours . |
| 25 | His name had been leaked inadvertently in a press interview which I had given and someone had traced his whereabouts . |
| 26 | The Duma 's powers , severely restricted from the start , had been curtailed further in 1907 . |
| 27 | He felt like a boxer who had been pummelled mercilessly against the ropes , on the verge of defeat , only to see his opponent 's corner throw in the towel . |
| 28 | Smaller levers had been built flush into the floor for them to manipulate with their rear feet . |
| 29 | They had been built just before the war and were only now being used for their intended purpose . |
| 30 | In the summer Henry James used to work in the ‘ Garden Room ’ which had been built apart from the house as a banqueting room . |