Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [num] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had slipped up in using Tweed 's name because it had sounded as though he 'd been one of the casualties . |
| 2 | Mungo wondered whether she had been one of the girls who was ‘ sweet ’ on Jos . |
| 3 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 4 | Probably that had been one of the things which Aunt Ruth , who had little dress sense , so disliked about her . |
| 5 | Mandrika had been one of the giants of the Volksoper and the Staatsoper . |
| 6 | They felt very threatened , although ‘ opening the door of my house ’ had been one of the actions tried out when the class was directing me in how to be a witch . |
| 7 | In a series of other cases from eyres where Mettingham had been one of the justices the auditors accepted his ‘ record ’ that he had not been sitting in the court when the case concerned was decided . |
| 8 | Of course the orders had gone out — she herself had been one of the recipients . |
| 9 | However , the conference decided that the government should take action against those guilty of the deaths of Sikhs in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi 's assassination in 1984 [ see pp. 33220-21 ] , which had been one of the Sikhs ' main demands . |
| 10 | Clause 9 of the Party programme could not be blamed , as Rosa Luxemburg argued , for the disintegration of the old Russia ; it had been one of the resources for saving what had been saved . |
| 11 | Mr. R. A. McNeile said that the availability of water in the town to supply 10,000 people had been one of the reasons for attracting the company . |
| 12 | It had been one of the reasons their marriage had failed . |
| 13 | The free magazine had been one of the perks of British Airways Club Class travel — and one she now regretted having enjoyed ! |
| 14 | Others present included , a great supporter of the Arts and many good causes ; , whose husband is Rector of the Imperial College ; , he is Chairman of London Weekend Television ; , who is a member of the Council of the College ; , who was over from Kenya ; , who had been one of the judges . |
| 15 | The Tatars had been one of the groups expelled from their traditional homelands in 1944 on grounds of alleged Nazi sympathies ( and a certain amount of active collaboration ) . |
| 16 | Two days earlier , Democratic Platform had been one of the groups responsible for organizing a demonstration by around 50,000 people in Moscow 's Manezh Square in protest at the CPSU . |
| 17 | Holding a referendum had been one of the conditions demanded by the European Communities ( EC ) before it would consider diplomatic recognition of an independent Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see pp. 38703-04 ] . |
| 18 | Choi Ho Joong , who was moved from Foreign Minister to Unification Minister in charge of that dialogue , had been one of the architects of South Korea 's recent successes in establishing ties with many of the former communist allies of North Korea . |
| 19 | Government involvement in the planning of the use of national resources , which had been one of the necessities of wartime , was continued by the Labour government as a matter of principle . |
| 20 | Rabscuttle was full of tricks and games and quite soon he was running and playing just as if he had been one of the children himself . |
| 21 | This had been one of the demands put forward by the Eco-glasnost group at public protests in Sofia in October 1989 . |
| 22 | On 5 April 1329 Isabella and Mortimer appointed as Justice of the Forest south of Trent Sir John Maltravers , who had been one of the gaolers , and probably one of the murderers of Edward II : when Edward III assumed personal authority in the following year , Maltravers saved himself by flight to France . |
| 23 | His grandfather had been one of the Competitors for the Throne ; but Edward the First had chosen John Balliol , as sufficiently weak to accept him as overlord . |
| 24 | He had been one of the founders of Lancashire Enterprise , started in the early 1980s by the controlling Labour Group on the county council , and financed by a 2p rate . |
| 25 | When he was young , it had been one of the days he most looked forward to . |
| 26 | A new clergy , no longer celibate , had to be trained to replace the existing parish clergy , whose ignorance and greed had been one of the causes of the deformation . |
| 27 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |