Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's jeans and shirt had been tossed on to the rumpled heap made by his sleeping-bag and two dented pillows . |
| 3 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 4 | A BITTER David Gower blasted England 's selectors last night after he was virtually the last to hear he had been tossed back into the cricketing wilderness . |
| 5 | A low-loading trailer had been fixed up as a platform for the clergy who led the service and the singing . |
| 6 | Most of the puppets looked rough-hewn and primitive , but two were utterly grotesque , as plastic dolls heads , complete with eyelashes and floppy yellow curls , had been fixed on to their stick-like bodies . |
| 7 | He had been swinging in and out of consciousness for several days . |
| 8 | He thought for a moment that time had been operated on . |
| 9 | All had been operated on , four of them by combined adenoidectomy and insertion of a tube and one by insertion of a tube only . |
| 10 | In patient 4 , who had been operated on before being referred to our institution , neoplastic cells including centrocyte like appearance infiltrated the mucosa , submucosa , and stomach muscles , with sparse extensions into the perigastric conjunctive tissue . |
| 11 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 12 | Patient 4 who had been operated on before referral received additional radiation therapy . |
| 13 | Forth patients had been operated on , 14 of whom had been subjected to only ileocoecal resection . |
| 14 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 15 | The first two of those were also included were made public , they are in the issue 's papers it did not make public the county council 's proposal as to who should be participants for each topic since those were matters for the the panel er to ma take a view of and I understood er from er the question er the answer to the question that it had been made clear that er the information had been made public except as always Chairman , er our legal office 's of the council always like that caveat that in case anything had been missed out I had just in fact suggested that perhaps not everything had been made public so I anticipated a possible supplementary question from Mr . |
| 16 | What had occurred was precisely the sort of ‘ semi-hysterical outburst of militancy ’ which McCann had criticised , and far from exposing and isolating the Nationalists , an informal united front had been struck up and the politicians were being allowed to clamber onto the DHAC 's bandwagon . |
| 17 | The Court had no knowledge of the case stated that had been struck out and the Crown 's case stated had duly proceeded . |
| 18 | The action had been struck out at first instance , an appeal to the Court of Appeal had failed but a petition for leave to appeal to the House of Lords was still pending . |
| 19 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 20 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
| 21 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 22 | Aurangzeb had been struck down with a fever , and it was believed that he was beyond recovery . |
| 23 | The Guam law had been struck down by lower courts and the Supreme Court had refused to review these rulings . |
| 24 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 25 | Mr Padget , 29 Prout Street , who was usually the first to receive his meal , had been struck off . |
| 26 | After a meeting with one , I thought the matter had been cleared up . |
| 27 | Because they developed a system of mining , whereby once once it was the the the task had begun to clear the coal face of a certain er a certain area of coal , it did n't matter what what happened during that particular period of time , whether all the machinery broke down , etcetera , etcetera , you had to stop u until that amount of coal had been cleared off , you see . |
| 28 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 29 | By this time they had been chucked out of the garden of course . |
| 30 | Spinster Rosemarie , 52 , had been paralysed down her right side since birth . |