Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adj] [noun] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But later a spokesman admitted there had been TWO surface subs in the area around that time . |
| 2 | In Turkey alone , the Guardian of Jan. 28 reported that there had been 10 terrorist attacks in Istanbul , Ankara and Adana on Jan. 21-28 , causing substantial damage to US and other allied military and business interests . |
| 3 | There had been four women members in the outgoing Majlis , and in the April 10 vote for the first time a women was elected to represent a constituency outside Tehran ( in the holy city of Mashad ) . |
| 4 | First elected to the lower house of the Diet in 1958 , Abe had been Chief Cabinet Secretary in 1977 and , after failing to win the party leadership in 1982 , he served as Foreign Minister between 1982 and 1986 . |
| 5 | On Aug. 22 Abdullah stated that there had been 170 bomb explosions in the state in the previous 12 months . |
| 6 | All three had been prominent opposition figures in the period before November 1989 . |
| 7 | Gorbachev removed Bakatin as USSR Minister of Internal Affairs on Dec. 2 , appointing in his place Boris Pugo , the ethnic-Latvian chair of the CPSU central control commission and a major-general in the KGB ( he had been Latvian KGB chief in 1980-84 ) . |
| 8 | Following the allegations of fraud in the July 1989 legislative and municipal elections in five states [ see p. 36811 ] an independent tribunal ruled in September that the left-wing nationalist Democratic Revolutionary Party ( Partido de la Revolución Democrática — PRD ) had in fact won 14 of the 18 seats in the state legislature in Michoacán , as opposed to the six initially conceded to the PRD against 12 for the ruling PRI , and that there had been widespread voting irregularities in the other four states . |
| 9 | Incidentally the lesson would have been better if there had been more tape recorders in the school and if the tape had been ready at the right moment . |
| 10 | Between 1972 and 1985 there had been significant energy savings in OECD countries . |