Example sentences of "[prep] what have been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , in truth , all that remained of what had been the North Pier , blown away by a great storm in the 1920s . |
| 2 | Occasionally there have been eruptions , most famously when mass pressure by GPs forced the 1966 reforms in primary care — the first substantial public investment into what had been the backwater of general practice . |
| 3 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 4 | Just before what had been the Rampton Committee published its interim report ( see 1981 Rampton ) , Mr Antony Rampton was replaced as chairman by Lord Swann . |
| 5 | They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis 's workshop in what had been the grooms ' quarters . |
| 6 | They were in what had been the dining-room of the house . |
| 7 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
| 8 | THE BOUNDARY changes of 1974 gave the name of Tayside to what had been the counties of Perthshire , Kinross-shire and Angus ( which itself had once been known as Forfarshire ) , while Clackmannanshire and Stirlingshire became rather drably Central . |
| 9 | David Nimley , still loyal to what had been the Doe government ; ( ii ) Charles Taylor 's NPFL ; and ( iii ) the " Independent NPFL " , a breakaway group led by Prince Yormie Johnson . |
| 10 | economy of the community and to have suburbia creeping in and trying to dictate to what has been the foundation of the of their economy , for many , many years is almost ridiculous ! |
| 11 | We passed through what had been the city centre but now the main street was a narrow , bumpy lane and the sides piled up with rubble . |
| 12 | Now vines are as rare as hanging corpses , since Thomas Telford drove the A5 right into the heart of the town in 1836 , through what had been the cloisters , with the present-day church on one side of the road , and the former infirmary and herb garden on the other . |
| 13 | It was assumed that a number of serving ministers from Hun Sen 's Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP , the new name chosen in October by what had been the Khmer People 's Revolutionary Party or KPRP ) would resign to make way for representatives of the monarchist Funcinpec Party led by Sihanouk 's son Norodom Ranaridh . |