Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flight from womanhood was linked with the flight from failure , the fear of which had practically been bred into me . |
| 2 | Then a wave formed , the like of which had not been seen at Pipeline that winter . |
| 3 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 4 | That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ . |
| 5 | The whole area was no more than ten or fifteen years old , straggling along either side of what had once been a country road and ending messily with the shell of an unfinished building of some indeterminate nature . |
| 6 | For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge . |
| 7 | A mind like hers had never been trained to encompass a vast concept or to accommodate any larger vision than what she could see with half-closed eyes . |
| 8 | Four knights at least , all Grey 's men ; and a rugged , thickset figure in half-armour , whose seat in the saddle was familiar , even if the black horse under him had not been so signally ornamented with his blazon . |
| 9 | Just before dawn the sound of a voice singing came over the darkened expanse of what had once been the Residency compound from the direction of what had once been the Cutcherry . |
| 10 | The question of fundamental importance which arises is whether the court should entertain the proposition that an Act of Parliament can so be assailed in the courts that matters should proceed as though the Act or some part of it had never been passed . |
| 11 | These included an ageing Soviet-supplied 8-megawatt plant ; a 50-megawatt and a 200-megawatt plant , both of which were still under construction ; and a 5-megawatt natural uranium experimental facility , the existence of which had previously been unknown internationally . |
| 12 | When Piri Pasa put the idea to Selim , however , the latter refused , taking the view that it would be wrong to interfere in the affairs of the two cities , which enjoyed a special standing in the Islamic world and the governing of which had always been in the hands of descendents of the Prophet . |
| 13 | In retrospect , what Essays in Criticism seems to have represented was the institutional absorption after the War of the so-called " critical revolution " of the interwar period , and the professionalisation of what had previously been a more or less oppositional movement within the academy . |
| 14 | Rather there had been a subtle unravelling of what had once been a more integrated pattern of recreation . |
| 15 | My recollection of what happened then is hazy , except that at some stage I went into spasm , with the two of us locked tight in a tangle of arms and legs . |
| 16 | The April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) won 19 seats , marking a clear breakthrough in what had historically been a two-party system dominated by the PL and the PSC . |
| 17 | Guenter Emig , the head of the commission , said the athletes were free to compete again , as the case against them had not been proved to the extent necessary for the suspension to be upheld . |
| 18 | She looked across the open grave at Sarah , her stepdaughter , and it saddened her even more that the gulf between them had never been bridged . |
| 19 | It would mean telling her everything — and telling the full truth about himself had never been easy . |
| 20 | Much of this came from the abolition of fallow , much from the farming of what had hitherto been moor , heath or marsh , much , unfortunately , from the destruction of woodlands . |
| 21 | Last year a cache of Second World War shells were unearthed on the site of what had previously been a scrap yard . |
| 22 | ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’ |
| 23 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 24 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 25 | Then , sighing , Charles opened the car door and stepped into the desolation of what had once been Thrush Green rectory . |
| 26 | On the high mantel shelf above what had once been the fireplace was a black and white photograph of a young man 's head . |
| 27 | But Ron Evans 's new concept for our programme , based on a degree of informality — with always space left at the end for viewers ' reaction to what had just been seen — and the new style of chatty presentation changed things . |
| 28 | She drew me close and comforted me as I mourned my child and the bond between us had never been stronger . |
| 29 | This was reflected in a loosening of what had traditionally been a strong correlation between landownership and civil and military office , especially at the highest level . |
| 30 | An unemployment rate well in excess of what had hitherto been considered to be a stable NAIRU was failing to produce sustained reductions in the rate of inflation beyond the initial impact effect of the fall in aggregate demand . |