Example sentences of "had been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edinburgh , Glasgow , and London ( particularly Imperial College ) universities have all been involved in major research projects in this area , although the major structural problems had been elucidated in 1906 by scientists from the then Geological Survey of Scotland ( Peach and others . |
| 2 | On Aug. 26 Sampson had begun legal proceedings to secure an early release , arguing that 11 years in exile in France should count towards his sentence , which had been pronounced in 1976 [ see p. 27980 ] . |
| 3 | But although it brought victory to the Black Prince , the battle of Nájera was to be the cause of the renewal of the war which had been halted in 1360 . |
| 4 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 5 | In a statement issued on Feb. 7 , 1990 , however , it said that some $2,000 million had been spent on an operation which had been halted in mid-September for climatic reasons . |
| 6 | The UN programme had been halted in December after the government alleged that UNITA forces were disrupting the convoys . |
| 7 | She had disliked Colin since their first meeting ; the relationship , at a glance , had been fixed in the stereotyped antagonism between newly acquired fiancée and slightly disreputable old schoolmate and drinking partner . |
| 8 | Two pieces of steel had been fixed in vices and the two men had set to work on them simultaneously . |
| 9 | By the time she reached the boat once more , the banner had been fixed in place , and all she had to do was position herself against it , her body making the bold black outline of the letter T — Trends was the name of her company — emblazoned across the white silk . |
| 10 | We were unable to analyse the phenotype of the lymphocytes producing γ-interferon because the specimens had been fixed in formalin . |
| 11 | In three patients , no analysable DNA histogram could be generated because their tumours had been fixed in Bouin 's solution . |
| 12 | All the tissue samples had been fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin for 24 hours at room temperature and then routinely processed to paraffin wax . |
| 13 | He had been serving in Cairo when my father was born , and afterwards the family came to live in England , as my grandfather was posted to the Military Academy at Sandhurst as an instructor . |
| 14 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
| 15 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 16 | Thus Regan , in memoirs not noted for their kindness to the president , says , ‘ [ Reagan 's ] grasp of economic theory as it had been taught in his time ( Eureka College , class of 1932 ) was excellent , and he kept abreast of later theory . |
| 17 | Those views she had been taught in the twenties while a young girl , that men do not love or respect , still less marry , women who have ‘ given themselves ’ to them , she had been obliged to revise . |
| 18 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 19 | He fell back into the pattern of helplessness in the face of distress that he had been taught in the cradle . |
| 20 | Following the outbreak of the South African war in 1899 she gave private classes in London in these languages — classes which were transferred to King 's College , London , in 1901 ; in 1910 these were formally recognized by the University of London , the first British university to promote the teaching of Bantu languages ( Swahili had been taught in Berlin since 1887 ) . |
| 21 | It was a dramatic gesture , a revelation ; it put him in a position of power , if only for a moment , but he liked that position and his primacy had been denied in that group of irreverents . |
| 22 | But what they were thinking of doing is taking on another person who could file plans away in the plan room once the , once sort of the midmorning rush of visitors had been cleared in , in Hudson House reception . |
| 23 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 24 | This year BGS enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site on Triassic sandstones where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 25 | Grb2 binding of Sos1 in vitro facilitated the rapid mapping of the sites of interaction : the SH3 domains were clear candidates for interaction on the Grb2 protein because mutation in these domains had been detected in genetic screens in worms , and indeed both SH3 domains of Grb2 are required for high-affinity binding . |
| 26 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 27 | The controversial new tax had been approved by the House of Commons in early 1990 but had been blocked in the Senate where the opposition Liberal Party held a majority . |
| 28 | The first attempt to get the bill through the Assembly had failed unexpectedly on April 6 when it had been blocked in the Chamber of Nations . |
| 29 | All Saints Church had been erected in 1876–8 , but after being damaged during World War II , it was demolished and most of its parish was combined with that of St Barnabas so that the latter church was renamed All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 30 | The wooden cross had been dug up and a new large memorial stone had been erected in its place . |