Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |
| 2 | Robyn 's mother , Vera Williams , of Wilton Village , who is now looking after Penny , said since her daughter had her baby she had suffered postnatal depression and had been taking various prescribed drugs . |
| 3 | Of these , 44 had been taking delayed release mesalazine as the sole maintenance treatment for at least six months . |
| 4 | The Golf Information Centre telephonists , recently trained in passable French , had been taking advanced bookings from around the world . |
| 5 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 6 | Trade unions representing ambulance workers and National Health Service ( NHS ) management agreed on Feb. 23 on a phased pay increase for ambulance workers , who since September 1989 had been taking varying degrees of industrial action [ see p. 37160 ] . |
| 7 | I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers . |
| 8 | Nezavisimaya gazeta of Sept. 18 reported that the withdrawal of the Russian regiment stationed in Kishinev [ see p. 39060 ] had been halted due to Moldovan Defence Ministry protests over the removal of military equipment which it claimed should be transferred to the republic . |
| 9 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |
| 10 | Last night 's lesson had been taught blind , there was no way of knowing how many had survived to get it by heart . |
| 11 | They ran back and found Alice had been struck dead by lighting . |
| 12 | Defence lawyers claimed that several injured defendants had been denied medical attention and that many others had been tortured while in custody . |
| 13 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 14 | As a young man , he had been reckoned good-looking . |
| 15 | Airlift Book Company this week announced that it had been appointed exclusive UK distributor for Shambhala Publications , taking over from Rider Books ( part of Random House ) on 1st April . |
| 16 | Nezzar , who had been appointed armed forces Chief of Staff in November 1988 following the previous month 's disturbances [ see p. 36506 ] , was replaced in that post by Brig. |
| 17 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 18 | Chauthala had been appointed Chief Minister on Dec. 2 , 1989 , replacing his father , Devi Lal , on the latter 's appointment as the central government 's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture [ see pp. 37031 ; 37124 ] . |
| 19 | Her claims were backed by prominent politicians from the newly formed National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) [ see p. 39054 ] including Ghulam Mustapha Jatoi who had been appointed interim Prime Minister in August 1990 on Bhutto 's dismissal [ see pp. 37652 ] . |
| 20 | Hammadi , a Shia , who had been appointed Prime Minister in March [ see p. 38083 ] , was reported to have favoured greater political liberalization and a closer adherence to UN resolutions to end Iraq 's international isolation . |
| 21 | Peterle ( born in 1948 ) had been leader of the Christian Democrats since autumn 1989 , and as the leader of the largest coalition party , had been appointed Prime Minister after the elections . |
| 22 | The main architect of the May crackdown , Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon , had been appointed Prime Minister in March 1992 . |
| 23 | On July 21 it was announced that Ghozali had been appointed Algerian ambassador to Paris [ see also below ] . |
| 24 | A proposal put forward at the end of January 1990 by Mario Schimberni , who in November 1988 had been appointed temporary special commissioner of the state railway system ( Ferrovie dello Stato — FS ) [ see pp. 37095-96 ] , met fierce opposition from both unions and politicians . |
| 25 | Wofford , 65 , once an aide to President Kennedy , had been appointed temporary senator in May 1991 by Democratic governor Robert Casey after the death in April of incumbent Republican John Heinz in a plane crash [ see p. 38138 ] . |
| 26 | On Oct. 22 Mohammad Ali Nazaran , the Iranian representative on the tripartite Iranian-Iraqi-ICRC commission charged with supervising the exchange of prisoners , demanded that Iraq " release immediately " Mohammad Javad Tondguyan , who had been appointed Iranian Oil Minister in September 1980 [ see p. 30630 ] and captured by an Iraqi military patrol shortly after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war [ see p. 31008 ] . |
| 27 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 28 | He had been appointed Military Attache to my father in 1917 after being badly wounded in France . |
| 29 | Later that month , Dr. Harvey Goldsmith who had been appointed medical officer to the Poor Law Institution in 1900 , resigned . |
| 30 | By the time he left Liverpool in 1873 he had been appointed consulting and superintending engineer to a number of shipping companies , including the Flower Line , the Castle Line , and the Eastern Telegraph Company . |