Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that one horse had been Milton , it would have been different , of course . ’ |
| 2 | When Anthony Eden resigned the premiership in broken health in January 1957 , the two obvious contenders had been R.A. Butler and Harold Macmillan . |
| 3 | The two main candidates had been Khasbulatov , nominated by the Democratic Russia group , and Sergei Baburin , nominated by the centrist Rossiya group of deputies and supported by the Communists of Russia group . |
| 4 | His first stab at an Open Championship was at St Andrews in 1957 with Laurie Ayton , whose uncle David had been Tip 's golf teacher . |
| 5 | His adviser had been Thomas Throgmorton . |
| 6 | ( His British predecessor in such technical study had been Thomas Hardy ; but that is another , and difficult , topic . ) |
| 7 | Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 . |
| 8 | The words had been Sandor 's before he died and Rostov wondered if the assassin had ever suspected that he too was scheduled for termination once he completed his assigned task . |
| 9 | The owner of the Fender amplifier had been Chris Cornell , singer with Soundgarden , who is a guest located on the 15th floor . |
| 10 | The first culprit had been Paul Azinger an hour or so before but his slip had gone unpunished when Seve Ballesteros did the same with his approach to the green . |
| 11 | Waddy had been Australia 's 12th man against England in the fifth Test in 1907–08 , having scored a century and a half-century against them for NSW in the previous match . |
| 12 | He remembered the dream where he had been riding north with Jinneth into the mountains , and he was sure that something of that figure had been Jenny . |
| 13 | The battered instrument had been Paddy Byrne 's most treasured possession and he had played it like a genius when his belly was full of beer . |
| 14 | We might expect such a king to have been beatified upon his death ( his ancestor had been St Arnulf ) but Charles ' indifference to Christian morality prevented this . |
| 15 | One of the defendants had been Ivan " Janez " Jansa , who was now Slovenia 's defence minister and an advocate of setting up a separate Slovene army . |
| 16 | The mover behind the women 's rights issue had been Fred Halliday , another cross-over from the New Left Review . |
| 17 | Jay Hammond had been Ross 's sixth victim : the tennis player , taking time off for a game with a business contact . |
| 18 | His formative influence as a boy had been John Cassell 's Popular Educator , first published in 1852 . |
| 19 | The Confederate flag had been Ellen 's idea , to be unfurled whenever we had charterers from the deep South , and this week 's guests were three married couples from Georgia . |
| 20 | A key issue in the campaign had been Malta 's foreign policy , in particular its relationship with the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 21 | Kilfedder had been Paisley 's choice for Speaker of the Assembly . |
| 22 | A main source of the original allegations against Beron had been Konstantin Trenchev , chair of the UDF-affiliated Podkrepa trade union . |
| 23 | Working with Rowbotham on Agitprop had been John Hoyland . |
| 24 | The memorable part of the meeting had been Lowell 's eagerness to be with her . |
| 25 | Amongst those saying goodbye to Ferrier in Sydney had been Richard Neville . |
| 26 | Lizzie Stroud had been Great-Aunt Alicia 's maid for as long as Sara could remember . |
| 27 | ( One member of the Silverlock family married Matilda de Langford , whose first husband had been William de Mohun — see page 28 . ) |
| 28 | A little touch of brightness in the room had been Patrick 's red pyjamas , where had those pyjamas come from ? |
| 29 | Up until a couple of years ago his name had been Peter Manstead . |
| 30 | His wife 's name had been Rachel , that much Meredith knew , and it was all . |