Example sentences of "[vb past] been an [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 2 | He had been an unsuccessful amateur jockey some fifteen years ago and had then been assistant to a leading jump trainer in Lambourn . |
| 3 | The Alliance was committed to economy in local government , and the rates issue had been an effective ideological weapon in the past . |
| 4 | It had been an horrific triple crash that had left two drivers dead , and the newsreel of that dreadful moment had shown a blazing object being catapulted clear of the wreckage . |
| 5 | He and the Reverend McQueen set out after breakfast to find the ruins of what McQueen believed had been an ancient pagan temple to the goddess Anaitis . |
| 6 | Just four years after Charles 's death , Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims , who had been an important political figure throughout Charles 's reign ( though not consistently close to him ) , wrote a treatise , The Government of the Palace , for the young King Carloman , Charles 's grandson , and lent it an air of authority by claiming to incorporate the work of Abbot Adalard of Corbie , who had died nearly sixty years before . |
| 7 | Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important medieval borough ; other places had been small market centres whose burgesses had obtained some measure of independence from their manorial lords . |
| 8 | The events between the formation of the first National Government and the general election , however , turned what had been an incipient three-party system into an unbalanced two-party system in which the Conservatives , reinforced by defectors from the Liberal and Labour parties , the Liberal Nationals , and National Labour party , were the obvious beneficiaries . |
| 9 | But Scarborough had been an urgent Fourth Division yard and a sturdy tackle better from the opening minutes of the second leg , when Dave Beasant had needed to stretch twice to low drives . |