Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] had [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event the conviction for capital murder was affirmed on the ground that ( the evidence being overwhelming ) there had been no miscarriage of justice , despite the majority 's view that the trial judge had been in error . |
| 2 | In a pre-Forum meeting between Australia and New Zealand , Australia expressed concern over the continuing allegations of human rights abuses by Papua New Guinea on Bougainville , where a secessionist guerrilla war had been in progress since 1989 . |
| 3 | The coffee made by that blasted mother 's boy Sartini had been like water as usual and the Brigadier himself had n't had time to go home and shave . |
| 4 | I refer not only to the substantial amount of money that was made available , resulting in a £45 per week rise for nursing homes , which cost us a total of £225 million , but to the amendment that allowed the Secretary of State , after community care had been in place for some time , to take account of the local authorities ' assessments of reasonable rates and of their experiences in general . |
| 5 | Consequently , the majority of participants in the group discussion had been in coal mining but now had jobs as unskilled workers in factories . |
| 6 | The Wackersdorf reprocessing complex had been under construction for seven years behind barricades . |
| 7 | An adult woman had been in labour for more than two days with her third child . |
| 8 | Talks between Russia and Ukraine on Ukraine 's withdrawal from the rouble zone had been in progress since June ( for RCB-government conflict see p. 39057 ) . |
| 9 | For many lifetimes railway practice had been for locomotives and rolling stock to be downgraded or ‘ cascaded ’ from front line to secondary services . |
| 10 | Idly he turned to the London addendum that had been recently updated while the shipping contract had been under negotiation . |
| 11 | Mr Fallon said he had talked to the longest serving officials in his department who said the expansion rule had been in place as long as they had been there . |
| 12 | The idea of pursuing a solo career had been in Sharon Shannon 's mind for a long while — but now the time was right she already had a seminal piece of super session recording under her belt and now , with John Dunford — who 'd been centrally involved with The Waterboys throughout their Irish sojourn as sound and recording engineer — in charge of production , she got to work on her solo album . |
| 13 | At that point the peripatetic Ercoupe/Aircoupe/Fornaire/Alon/Cadet design had been in production — on and off — for some 33 years , during which the original basic low-wing and steeply dihedralled tricycle monoplane had undergone innumerable detail changes . |
| 14 | Murray 's family home had been in Bath , before he 'd started his 4-year degree course at Cheltenham college of higher education . |
| 15 | Some sort of fire prevention had been in existence , for a number of hydrants were placed around the village and earlier in the same year extra hydrants were provided and the fire appliance committee was formed . |