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"had been blocked" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about a completed action in the past. For example, "The path leading to the waterfall had been blocked due to a fallen tree."
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The street had been blocked off.
Highways into Caracas had been blocked.
That money had been blocked by Venezuela's foreign exchange regulator.
Earlier efforts had been blocked by government departments.
Previously, FDA representatives had been blocked from entering China.
Its efforts had been blocked by opposition from business groups.
The government did not directly address whether YouTube had been blocked.
This was not a technical malfunction on her end; rather, the site had been blocked.
Until then, memory reconsolidation had been blocked only by physical intervention, either drugs or electric shocks.
It was a difficult case — a writer who had been blocked for two years.
But detection improved just as much in the nostril that had been blocked.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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