Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 2 | British academic institutions which had been involved in satisfying Elena Ceauşescu 's desire for recognition by her colleagues handled their embarrassment with little aplomb after Christmas 1989 . |
| 3 | But he denied newspaper reports that the men had been involved in last December 's bombing of a Pan Am jet which exploded above the Scottish village of Lockerbie with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 4 | According to the security forces , Michael Hart had been involved in numerous IRA attacks and had been rumoured to have triggered the Ballygawley bomb . |
| 5 | Simple cottages of compacted chalk and flint with front walls the depth of a single brick were flung up in rows of squalid terraces with neither drains nor water supplies ; what had been normal in rural Sussex soon became a trap of disease and hopelessness . |
| 6 | There were two old linebacked bulls and seven bull calves at the time to help fix the colour , which was not unlike that of the Longhorn , an English breed which had been widespread in eighteenth-century Ireland ( there was said to be a ‘ hornless Longhorn ’ in Cumberland in the nineteenth century ) . |
| 7 | ( The market 's post crash high had been 2,737.8 on 11 May 1992 . ) |