Sentence examples for had been formally from inspiring English sources

No one had been formally arrested.

It was a general offensive, even if none had been formally declared.

The problem was that none of these procedures had been formally tested in controlled clinical trials.

The interrogators went far beyond the brutality that they had been formally authorized to inflict.

But even though the city had been formally liberated, few people felt secure enough to return.

He said de la Pena had been "formally reprimanded and put on a training programme".

He declined to say whether Mr. Quayle had been formally invited to participate.

Once he had been formally nominated, the thinking went, maybe then the pivot would come.

None of the dead had been formally identified, but the family of one victim came forward over the weekend.

So far, she said, only 170 people had been formally notified that their phones may have been hacked.

By the early 1850s the village site had been formally surveyed, and in 1852 the settlement was named Victoria.