Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it had been blown away on a gust of wind as soon as the crate was opened in Liverpool and was never seen again . |
| 2 | The question , which had been popped earlier on the stadium 's electronic scoreboard , got the thumbs up . |
| 3 | The elections had been called prematurely on Dec. 10 , 1990 , by Prime Minister Jonathan Motzfeldt , leader of the left-wing Forward ( Siumut ) , after opposition members claimed to have evidence that Cabinet ministers had misused public funds on entertaining party members [ see p. 37925 ] . |
| 4 | He died in 1557 , and was buried in St Margaret 's churchyard on 9 August ; his first wife Ann had been interred there on 9 December 1552 , and he was survived by his second wife Ellen . |
| 5 | However , when the case was brought before the House of Lords in 1991 , Lord Bridge disagreed , concluding that the decision letter had been based entirely on the ‘ special circumstances of the case ’ and that , contrary to SAVE 's fears , no dangerous precedent would be set . |
| 6 | In a letter to the head of the air staff secretariat at Whitehall , the Killin team leader , Billy Stitt , said that the provision of helicopters had been based solely on the military requirement for crashed aircraft and the maritime role , with no account taken of the ever-growing number of people suffering serious injury on Scottish mountains . |
| 7 | The friendship between Branson and Oldfield had been based initially on dependence and protectiveness — mutual need , and mutual gratitude . |
| 8 | Dr Nathanson said that a reply had been received only on the eve of the press conference and did not alleviate all its concerns . |
| 9 | However , he had been rearrested on April 12 , immediately after his arrival in Donetsk to attend a rally of striking miners [ for miners ' strike see above ; pp. 38129-30 ] , and had been re-released only on May 12 . |
| 10 | She had been hit violently on the back of the head with a heavy weapon . |
| 11 | An overnight case had been placed carefully on a sheet of newspaper . |
| 12 | On the left breast of his tunic the insignia of the Legion d'Honneur glimmered among a broad cluster of medals , and his plumed tricorn had been placed ostentatiously on a table at his side . |
| 13 | The " Open Skies " policy had been proposed by the United States in December 1989 [ see pp. 37112 ] , and test flights had been made in eastern Europe [ see p. 37201 ] , but talks on its implementation had effectively been suspended in May 1990 after Soviet expressions of reservations over militarily sensitive areas [ see pp. 37267 ; 38255 ] and they had been reconvened only on Sept. 9 , 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] . |
| 14 | Government economic policies had led to an erosion of the previously relatively privileged economic position of the miners , who , as recently as June 1990 , had been mobilized successfully on the streets of Bucharest as an intimidating force behind Iliescu 's government and against opposition demonstrators [ see p. 37545 ] . |
| 15 | Michael Peters , 25 , had been arrested earlier on suspicion of leading a right-wing terrorist group . |
| 16 | The waiter held out the straw hat which had been left behind on a chair . |
| 17 | Her will indicates a modest estate , although the bulk of her household goods had been settled earlier on her daughters Alice ( born 1654 ) , the widow of Thomas Comber , DD , dean of Durham [ q.v. ] , and Katherine ( born 1656 ) , wife of Robert Danby of Northallerton , gentleman . |
| 18 | Further questioning revealed that he was only able to sell the artefacts in Gibraltar because they had been found illegally on a site in Spain . |
| 19 | He was behaving more and more as an autocrat , The State of emergency inherited form Mossadeq had been lifted only on 1956 . |
| 20 | It contained an acknowledgment that its decision to close Village school had been taken primarily on financial grounds . |
| 21 | On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it . |
| 22 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 23 | Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible . |
| 24 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 25 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 26 | The assumption here is that if the pound had been devalued earlier on this would have made it possible to adhere to the growth path of the plan , but in the light of the comments made above this view is open to doubt : it gives the plan more credibility than it merited . |
| 27 | As Philip 's summons had been issued only on the fragile authority of a single peace treaty , its validity had to be established by other means . |
| 28 | In December , 12 new proposals were submitted by members or by groups of countries , and GATT stated that by the end of 1989 a total of 14 proposals ( from 28 countries ) had been put forward on the question of standards and norms alone and nine ( from 23 countries ) on the question of enforcement of IPRs , while a large number of other proposals dealt with further important aspects of the negotiating brief . |
| 29 | The defeat of the Labour Party for the second time in 1983 had been blamed largely on the media campaign which had glorified the Falklands , hammered Foot , and unleashed a campaign of unprecedented vitriol against Livingstone 's GLC and the ‘ Loony Left ’ . |
| 30 | A spokesman said the fur ban had been introduced purely on commercial grounds . |