Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [vb past] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Chapman 's last entry in the journal noted that at 8.45 a.m. a ten-year-old boy had been in the sick ward for three days but had been taken much worse . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the idea of a National Government had been in the air for some time before its actual formation . |
| 3 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 4 | It could have been worse ; since the first strike had occurred at 9.30 p.m. after the main factory work-hours , and only a skeleton-crew shift had been in operation at that time . |
| 5 | A fourth cherry had been in the slice the Councillor had just removed and eaten . |
| 6 | A general strike had been in effect in the city since December , with workers and students demanding the resignation of the President and the government , which , they alleged , were harbouring former Ceausescu supporters . |
| 7 | In schools in these areas and other parts of London , children whose native language was a Caribbean Creole had been in evidence since the 1950s . |