Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club . |
| 2 | He had been trained at the Douai seminary and had been taught the art not only of argument but also of secrecy . |
| 3 | We had been taught the history of the organisation , and each day were learning more about its curious codes of morality and behaviour . |
| 4 | ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’ |
| 5 | She had been denied the company of males during her early life and now found it difficult to talk to members of the opposite sex . |
| 6 | The allegation of negligence was that the defendant had failed to observe a foetal abnormality during pregnancy and the plaintiff had been denied the possibility of an abortion . |
| 7 | Allison was among many who were convinced that the Welshman had been denied the 60metres hurdles crown because the race starter , Toronto property manager Ron Bell , had let local hero Mark McKoy get away with a ‘ flyer ’ . |
| 8 | When the court reconvened , it was told that a key prosecution witness , Gabriel Mekgwe , had been kidnapped the night before , forcing a further adjournment . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal detected " underlying transactions of a solicitorial nature " and determined that on the expert evidence ( inter alia from a former President of the Law Society ) which had been presented the undertakings given were such as might come within the usual course of a solicitor 's business . |
| 10 | Once enough money had been raised the bells were taken to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London — where one of them was originally cast . |
| 11 | A warrant for Honecker 's arrest to face manslaughter charges [ see pp. 37828-29 ] had been confirmed by a Berlin court on Nov. 30 , 1990 , and the last of three appeals against the order had been lost the week before . |
| 12 | By the time the cigarette had been smoked the fire had burnt out . |
| 13 | It was a shame that there was nothing from the boy 's mother , but then it was only Thursday and perhaps since war had been declared the post was being delayed . |
| 14 | Because of his obedience he had been granted the gift of eternal life . |
| 15 | A jury swore in 1266 that John son of Nigel and his ancestors had been foresters of fee of Bernwood Forest ‘ from the Conquest of England ’ : another jury declared that the ancestors of William son of Adam had been granted the manor of Hutton-in-the Forest by Henry I , to hold by the serjeanty of keeping the bailiwick of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest . |
| 16 | He already had an interest there , as he had been granted the town of Lalinde by Edward in 1267 . |
| 17 | Since monetary and fiscal policies had been assigned the role of guaranteeing the maintenance of full employment , the traditional neoclassical preoccupation with efficiency in the face of scarcity could come back into its own . |
| 18 | We found a railway bridge that had been named the Chelmsford Bridge painted in drab brown colour . |
| 19 | Interviewed in Edinburgh after a Class 91 electric locomotive had been named The Scotsman by the paper 's editor , Magnus Linklater , Mr Green stressed his belief that the Glasgow-London Euston route had a good future . |
| 20 | He had been warned the night before not to attempt to go to the airport but had done so anyway . |
| 21 | An improvement on this basic design was to use a lightweight but rigid rotating rod on which to mount the magnet and mirror , and attach a coil spring at one end , so that once any change in potential difference had been registered the mirror would swing back to its original position . |
| 22 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 23 | When the acquittal had been announced the baby 's mother had fled the court in tears . |
| 24 | Of his playing partners , Greg Norman was fined the same amount , but Ken Brown , who had been punished the day before , had to fork out £100 for a second offence . |
| 25 | This had been arranged the day before . |
| 26 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 27 | In the two days since the men had been gone the girls had become close friends , beginning from the moment Joanna had knocked timidly on the solar door soon after Guy had left . |
| 28 | And before meeting him , I wandered about the Left Bank reminding myself that I had been prescribed the city of love to feast my senses . |
| 29 | Barnes had been given the bird for an earlier kicking failure but he converted that try with such a fine kick that he felt entitled to make an equalising gesture to the crowd . |
| 30 | He had been sentenced to death by the castle commander and had been given the chance to prove his prowess with a gun and so saved his life . |