Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on Aug. 16 the Swedish Supreme Court ruled that Mikhail Mokretsov , 19 , who had hijacked an airliner to Stockholm on July 5 , should stand trial in Sweden ( he had attempted suicide while in custody , and had been pronounced mentally unfit to face extradition ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She felt as if her own emotions had been tossed brutally into a whirlwind . |
| 4 | He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display . |
| 5 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Italy would find itself in an easy group . |
| 6 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Argentina would be in a difficult group and Italy in an easy group . |
| 7 | Arsenic refineries and lime kilns had been operated here , too . |
| 8 | After the first plaintiff had purchased the entire shareholding of the second plaintiff , they learned of allegations that the contract with the health authority had been operated fraudulently . |
| 9 | On another occasion he had been struck once by another man at work and we were furious at him for not returning the blow . |
| 10 | Lord Murray said the only reasonable inference was that the blows had been struck deliberately . |
| 11 | He said that , during the 20-minute journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne , a lit cigarette had been used to burn him on the back of the neck , he had been struck constantly , and as the car travelled at speeds up to 70mph , the man beside him had opened the door and told him to take his chances and jump . |
| 12 | Most crossed just for the experience of a freedom they had been denied so long . |
| 13 | On February 15th President F.W. de Klerk announced that most of the remaining obstacles to constitutional negotiations with the African National Congress ( ANC ) had been cleared away . |
| 14 | When their last remains had been cleared away , the depôt was leased to a potted meat manufacturer on 29 September 1936 . |
| 15 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 16 | The rubble had been cleared away long ago , and a line drawn between houses that were lived in , and blank space . |
| 17 | ‘ That was a fabulous meal , ’ she declared enthusiastically after the pudding plates had been cleared away . |
| 18 | By the time police arrived most of the evidence had been cleared away . |
| 19 | The station had been cleared just minutes before . |
| 20 | Trent guessed that the meadow had been cleared originally because its soil was richer than the sandy loam common to the ridge . |
| 21 | A message had been scrawled there ! |
| 22 | Longitudinal gall bladder strips were taken from male albino guinea pigs that had been fasted overnight . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | A police officer told the coroner he 'd found youths on the site at least six times since the fence had been erected earlier this year . |
| 25 | The pavements had been cobbled here to give it a quaint feel , and coach-loads of tourists were shuffling along with cameras dangling and guides chivvying . |
| 26 | As had been realised already in the model experiments , a rotor ship would not make full use of a wind blowing directly from astern . |
| 27 | David Reynolds said after the money had been rammed home and the tone had cycled , ‘ Carson , are you alone ? ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps as many as 3,000 had been presented annually to Henry IV . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | The stone had been raised high just as Wexford was raising it now but brought down that time on the back of Hatton 's skull . |