Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The burden of Russia 's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War . |
| 32 | Lennox-Boyd had been in the post for five years and had asked to retire for family business reasons . |
| 33 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 34 | Blanche asked if Blufton had been at the farewell party the night before . |
| 35 | An ancestor had been to the crusades , another had captured Harry Hotspur at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388 , and a Count Montgomerie had accidentally killed King Henry II of France in a jousting contest . |
| 36 | The work that Levi valued is of an order to which Auschwitz — with the lying motto over its gates , Arbeit macht frei — was built to be antithetical . |
| 37 | In making the change , the Church effectively admitted that on these points the Reformers had been in the right . |
| 38 | That evening the two defendants had been in the Peace Gardens with Mrs McMullen , her mother , Annie Williams , and brother , Terence Morton . |
| 39 | The jury was previously told by John Griffith-Williams QC , prosecuting , that the two defendants had been in the Wrexham Peace Gardens with Mrs McMullen on the evening of her death , where McLean later claimed to have found her body . |
| 40 | By contrast , the regulation of the international economy in earlier periods had been under the domination of London , pivoting around London 's capital markets and the pound sterling which acted as the main form of international money . |
| 41 | She had wanted to speak to Debbie after the others had left , and all the talk over lunch had been of the trip to the Tate . |
| 42 | Her parents had been in the Chelsea Art set . |
| 43 | Both sets of parents had been against the marriage , but she and Gordon had persisted , drawn closer by the opposition . |
| 44 | The camp was a most as noisy as the point of work had been during the day . |
| 45 | So far her work had been in the surgery . |
| 46 | The hospitaller had been on the verge of striking Sir John and , once that happened , well , Athelstan knew Cranston . |
| 47 | Frankish Kings could be as brutal as Euric had been in the days of Visigothic expansion . |
| 48 | The man leading the hunt for the killer , Det Chief Insp Barry Hill , said forensic experts from Wetherby had been to the scene . |
| 49 | In another study , this time of one village Ringmer in Sussex , which had doubled in size from around 2,000 inhabitants in 1961 to 4,000 in 1971 , Ambrose ( 1974 ) found that the main reason for migration to the village had been for a job , or to be within commuting range of a job , thus confirming that the main reason for migration , as already outlined earlier in this chapter , is economic , but also that the most dominant newcomers are Pahl 's ‘ spiralists ’ . |
| 50 | Strong , colourful midfield player or striker , Andy Gray had been with the Palace as a schoolboy during the Terry Venables era at Selhurst Park , but disappeared into non-league soccer so that it was actually from Dulwich Hamlet that Manager Steve Coppell initially signed him for The Eagles in November 1984 . |
| 51 | Considering how long the formation of Deacon Gray had been in the pipeline , the eventual timing might seem strange . |
| 52 | All this activity left little time for photography but , even after returning to the States to continue his work for the FSA , Delano never lost sight of the fact that his introduction to Puerto Rico had been through a camera . |
| 53 | For ten years Law had been at the heart of the party 's reactions to political events , largely because his own views mirrored those of his followers almost exactly . |
| 54 | So there was evidence that the beggars had been on the bank that morning . |
| 55 | It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east . |
| 56 | Beverley had been in the care of her mother , herself a mental patient . |
| 57 | He said Sigsworth had been on a drinking binge for several days before going to the police station . |
| 58 | The Court of Session heard that the original plan had been for the Deanses to use their 57 per cent shareholding to remove four directors — Wilson Young , James Johnston , Alastair McKenzie and Clive Scott . |
| 59 | The plan had been for the Americans to discover an unknown for the lead female role but no-one had Miss Leigh 's screen magic . |
| 60 | Once Dolly and Gertrude had been in the back row of the chorus at the Palladium , and Gertrude had even had a solo spot with a comic song … he had seen a photo of her somewhere as Burlington Bertie … |