Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adj] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 2 | Unkiar-Skelessi had been due for renewal anyway . |
| 3 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
| 4 | The office had been vacant since December when Bush had appointed the incumbent Transportation Secretary , Samuel Skinner , as his Chief of Staff [ see p. 38667 ] . |
| 5 | Almond Nofomela had been among the most trusted of Coetzee 's askaris in his years with Section C. Nofomela had been involved in killings up to despatch of the unfortunate Lesotho diamond dealer . |
| 6 | In or about February 1983 , I received a message via my branch director that the deputy Director-General of MI5 was prepared to consider favourably an application from me for a telephone intercept on a member of the Communist Party within C.N.D. John Cox , a Vice-President of C.N.D. , was selected since he was well known as a member of the Communist Party and had been involved in C.N.D. practically since its inception . |
| 7 | The economy had been close to collapse even before Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and the surrender itself coincided with one of the worst rice harvests for decades . |
| 8 | It had been latent in Lewis ever since his encounter with God in Magdalen in the summer of 1929 . |
| 9 | There were a few curled-up sandwiches in a glass-fronted cabinet beneath the counter and a cheese roll that looked like it had been hewn from granite rather than baked with dough . |
| 10 | And if it had been obvious to Jean then Silas would notice it in two seconds or less . |
| 11 | Beyond yet another bridge , for Victorian ingenuity had been hard at work here , I came across a torrential waterfall labelled ‘ salmon weir , . |
| 12 | Perhaps objects like these had been fashionable in churches once upon a time , but no longer , hence the attic . |
| 13 | The tsar had been enthusiastic about change so long as he remained in the orbit of Elena Pavlovna , but in St Petersburg his convictions or his courage deserted him . |