Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great noise woke Bacon and he hurried to the college gate only to find that the opportunity to build the wall of brass around Stamford had been missed and all his work was undone . |
| 2 | The dense palm grove had been cleared and hundreds of casuarina trees chopped down and grubbed out . |
| 3 | When the tables had been cleared and those who could do so had entertained the rest with songs and recitations , the whole company settled down for a sing-song . |
| 4 | It was 25 October , nineteen days since Simon Cormack had been kidnapped and seventeen since Zack 's first call to the Kensington apartment . |
| 5 | Gen. Suchinda , the former army commander and military junta leader , had been appointed as Prime Minister in early April [ see p. 38865 ] following an inconclusive general election in March which had resulted in the formation of a weak , pro-military coalition dominated by Chart Thai and Samakkhi Tham [ see p. 38816 ] . |
| 6 | It was reported on Sept. 28 that Marciano García had been appointed as new Finance Minister and José Blanco Gomez as new Economy Minister . |
| 7 | and er as often as not they were ladies who had been separated or divorced and er they had all , a lot of sort of marital problems and it became almost a , a we welfare of job |
| 8 | For some time , it had been recognised that significant numbers of promising young players were being lost to the game by a lack of a smooth transition from school to senior club . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Leland claimed his company was worth over $16 million : 3407 Lincolns had been built and 241 remained in the plant at the time of the sale . |
| 11 | In the old natural woodland which had been there originally , in a small clearing , a log cabin had been built and thatched with heather . |
| 12 | Even though 30,000 lives had been lost and massive amounts of matériel consumed on both sides , Madrid did not fall to the Nationalists . |
| 13 | Colt read the letter that had been written that same morning , in haste , by his father . |
| 14 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 15 | Elections were due by November 1992 , but an early election had been necessitated when two right-wing ultra-nationalist parties , Tehiya and Moledet , left the ruling Likud-led coalition in January , depriving the government of a majority in the Knesset [ see p. 38740 ] . |
| 16 | During the close season in 1974 a dry moat had been constructed and new barriers installed . |
| 17 | Oh yes , it had been leafleted but that was . |
| 18 | The monster had been named and tamed and destroyed all in an afternoon . |
| 19 | Members of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) , whose forces took Addis Ababa in May [ see pp. 38174-75 ] , were appointed to the Defence and Foreign Affairs ministries ( Seyoum Mesfin , who had been named as Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs in June 1991 , being confirmed in the latter post ) . |
| 20 | It had been discovered that fraudulent activities amongst these members was often associated with their other business dealings . |
| 21 | The Egyptian police claimed that false identity papers had been discovered and that Misrati had jumped from a balcony in a bid to escape , breaking a leg in the process . |
| 22 | But they counted as necessary a pair of iron-pointed walking sticks , a clasp-knife , stout hunting-whips to beat off the legions of dogs they were prepared to encounter , and a policeman 's small lantern , since they had been warned that Turkish paper lanterns were useless in a hurricane . |
| 23 | It had picked up quite a bit of loose weed which kept jamming in the top ring , but this was periodically removed by Mr Gardner who , by now , knew I had a good fish on and had been warned that any foul-ups at the net would seriously hinder his future fathering capabilities . |
| 24 | An occasional man or woman who had been stabbed or beaten or strangled but who , far more often than not , had simply gone without food for a week or two , and given up . |
| 25 | Marshall continued , stressing the amount of work which had been done and offsetting , he hoped , the poor impression caused by his lightheartedness . |
| 26 | An educational programme had been done and 12 hours training every two years was required to keep the licence . |
| 27 | Possibly even later , two burials have been recorded from Coulter 's Garage just outside the south side of the defences ; these may be contemporary with the interment of a young girl who had been beheaded and ten infant burials in the garden of Lloyds Bank . |
| 28 | But in general , here , too , was a major issue in which the 1970s had been wholly unproductive , in which Celtic nationalism had been inflamed but left impotent and dissatisfied , and real questions about accountability and democratic participation left unanswered . |
| 29 | When the Demidovs had first built mines and smelting works in the hills , they had been fortified and special permission was obtained from the government for the industrialists to hire a private army for protection . |
| 30 | It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns . |