Example sentences of "had been on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the agreement to let the original refugees out had been on a once-only basis , it was not clear what was going to happen to yesterday 's 1,000-plus new arrivals in Prague . |
| 2 | As workmen moved in to put up fencing yesterday , more demonstrators joined a small group of protesters who had been on a 24-hour vigil at the site . |
| 3 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 4 | She had been on a bus once and had seen Simon in a posh car pulling out of an ‘ executive ’ housing estate opposite the boating lake . |
| 5 | He had been on a life-support machine since the attack . |
| 6 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 7 | After a while she sat up and slowly began to undress to her camisole and her waist petticoat ; then , turning up the gas that had been on a low jet , she went across the room to the wash-hand stand and poured water from the jug into the basin . |
| 8 | Another incident in the same Shop involved a man who had been on a Government course on turning . |
| 9 | Pre-Windscale , he recalled , two Secretaries of State had been on a collision course . |
| 10 | On the one recent occasion when the Mendoza family had got near winning the Argentine Open , it had been on a grey mare that Alejandro had missed the clinching penalty . |
| 11 | The man was a fellow-American and had been on a tour of European branches for the previous three days . |
| 12 | Jack Cartwright and his wife June and their two children Alan , 11 , and Melissa , 13 , had been on a camping holiday in the West Country , but unfortunately everything had gone wrong . |
| 13 | Mr Hurd said Mr Smith 's speech had been on a motion of no confidence he had not tabled : ‘ And why has n't he ? |
| 14 | Sara Atkinson , 18 , had been on a life support machine for three days . |
| 15 | Until now his ships had been on a southerly course , the weather becoming even colder , the unexpected winds known now as williwaws threatening to dash his vessels against the steep cliffs . |
| 16 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |
| 17 | Roof trusses , which had been on a two week delivery when we enquired , were three to four weeks delivery when we ordered them . |
| 18 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 19 | She had no travellers ' tales , no air of a person who had been on a journey , and I knew she would be both disbelieving and resentful if I should try to describe the eternal vistas I had glimpsed . |
| 20 | S and er two or three friends , oh I , I had been on a number of cruises before that , to Germany , to Norway and Sweden , to Denmark . |
| 21 | She would go back to Sea House and tell Stephen that his father had been on a train at the time of his mother 's death . |
| 22 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 23 | Ever since she had met him she had been on a roller-coaster , going up and down and swerving from one emotional crisis to another . |
| 24 | The party 's executive chairman , the former opposition figure Kim Young Sam , had distanced himself from the plan , although his signature , that of his DLP co-chairman Kim Jong Pil , and that of President Roh Tae Woo , had been on a secret memorandum leaked to the press in October . |
| 25 | Hamdan , it was claimed , had been on a PLO mission to Beirut at the time of the bombing . |
| 26 | Previously , allocation of funds had been on a per capita student basis , but this changed to a research project grant system . |
| 27 | The agent , a good one , reported that the affair was n't quite as dramatic as first accounts had suggested and had been on a far smaller scale , but that students had definitely been involved and at least one of them appeared badly hurt . |
| 28 | A four week challenge was performed on 20 children who had been on a gluten free diet for mean ( SD ) 14 ( 3 ) months . |
| 29 | He and a friend had been on a cycling tour of the Himalayas , when they paid for the papers from a local travel agent . |
| 30 | The jet had been on a routine training mission when it came down , destroying thirteen parked cars . |