Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only good news to offset my ‘ disgrace ’ was that Father had proved such a success at Marconi 's that he had been appointed an assistant manager in the research department dealing with radio materials . |
| 2 | June 1944 , the Allied forces in Italy managed to reach Rome — which had been declared an ‘ open city ’ ( i.e. not to be damaged or destroyed by the conflicting forces ) and that was followed on 6th . |
| 3 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 4 | Some of the 120 rebels claimed that they had been granted an amnesty , but an official spokesman stated that all had surrendered unconditionally and could face charges of treason , a capital offence . |
| 5 | In a television interview , James Baker , the Secretary of State , said the Panama commander , General Maxwell Thurman , had been sent an order last Tuesday morning , the day of the coup , requiring him to seize General Noriega if there were an opportunity to do so ‘ without risking American life and without open military involvement , then he was free to go ahead ’ . |
| 6 | The year before , she and the Prince of Wales had been sent an unusual gift . |
| 7 | The Foreign Ministry on Aug. 21 announced that there had been discovered an attempt by supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mohamed Taki to destabilize the government , and that one French mercenary and two Comorans had been arrested . |
| 8 | Anthony John Allen , aged 23 , of Huyton , Liverpool , was cleared by the appeal judges , along with William Willis , aged 23 , who had been given an 11-year sentence for his alleged part in the attack three years ago on a Southampton publican , his wife , and a barmaid . |
| 9 | He got half-way down the corridor and realized in irritation that he had no idea where she had been given an office . |
| 10 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 11 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 12 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
| 13 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 14 | It was in here , on the north side of the Kremlin , that Myeloski had been given an office . |
| 15 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 16 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 17 | Now he had been given an assignment that demanded intuitive analysis to a sensitive degree . |
| 18 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 19 | For the first time in his life Stan had been given an objective . |
| 20 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 21 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
| 22 | He had been made an object of fun and a target for abuse . |
| 23 | She was a dignified octogenarian aristocrat who had been made an honorary Chief-Corporal in the Regiment since she had served with it in World War Two . |
| 24 | As it had been made an exhibit at trial they were entitled to inspect the tape in the jury room , subject to the discretion of the trial judge to prevent e.g. an unedited version containing inadmissible material from being handed over . |
| 25 | It is perhaps possible that they might fail to mention that a purely functional muftilik had been made an for Hizir Bey ; but it seems unlikely in the extreme that they should fail to mention his having held a post which , as has been suggested in the previous chapter , was already one of great prestige and which , by Taskopruzade 's time less than a century later , was certainly one of considerable power . |
| 26 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 27 | He had been elected an Honorary Fellow in 1850 , and it is clear that Hope 's wealth and position were still of sufficient value to the profession that he became the only amateur , apart from Grey , to be the Institute 's President . |
| 28 | ‘ Mama never spoke of her family , insisting that she had been born an orphan , ’ Joan said , still unable to fully comprehend that she was not whom she had thought she was . |
| 29 | Until the start of reforms in late 1990 a beard had been considered an " alien manifestation " , and bearded men had been liable to arrest , but the Guardian of Feb. 9 , quoting an opposition activist , reported that beards were no longer illegal . |
| 30 | Although Dmitrii Miliutin 's predecessor as War Minister , General Sukhozanet , had been considered an unimaginative choice for the position at the time of his appointment in 1856 , he had instigated or been obliged to accept " Literally hundreds of changes " in the conduct of military affairs . |