Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 2 | Mr Yanagitani had been one of Daiwa 's highest-flyers . |
| 3 | Shiona had been sixteen when Jake entered her life . |
| 4 | David had been eighteen when his mother died , after a surprisingly short illness , which Luther Reynolds had insisted was , ‘ Nothing more than a cold . ’ |
| 5 | Bruno of Nordgau had been fifty-one years old when he died . |
| 6 | The report singled out three recent incidents : a demonstration in Kishinev ( the capital ) on Jan. 8 , when a funeral procession for a Moldavian youth who had died in suspicious circumstances had turned into a rally by up to 10,000 people protesting against Soviet and communist rule , and fights had ensued between rival gangs of Moldavian and Russian youths ; a picket of the district Moldavian CP committee building in the town of Chadyr Lunga by members of the Gagauz minority demanding creation of their own autonomous republic ; and a referendum on Jan. 28 called by the city soviet in Tiraspol , Moldavia 's second largest city , in which the predominantly Russian population had voted overwhelmingly ( over 96 per cent of a 92 per cent poll ) to declare greater autonomy for the Tiraspol district and to support the possible declaration of Tiraspol and neighbouring Russian-populated towns as an autonomous republic ( Tiraspol had been one of the main centres of strikes by Moldavia 's Russian and Ukrainian population in August-September 1989 against greater Moldavian language rights — see pp. 36855 ; 36898 ) . |
| 7 | On March 23 the NDPD ( which together with the CDU , the DBD and the liberal democrat precursor to the LDP had been one of the four " bloc " parties governing in coalition with the former communist regime — see p. 37025 ) joined the League of Free Democrat — the renamed LDP — to form one faction . |
| 8 | Falcone had been one of those responsible for bringing to trial 473 members of the Mafia in December 1987 [ see p. 35990 ] . |
| 9 | Until Forest reached the final , Wassall had been one of the 16 footballers vying for the title of the Football League 's quickest player in the final of the Rumbelows Sprint Challenge , to be staged immediately before the big match with Manchester United . |
| 10 | Frankie had been one of those unfortunates . |
| 11 | Puddephat had given evidence , saying Melanie Gandell had been one of his brightest students , and he had gone out of his way to encourage her academically as a result . |
| 12 | The coroner was told that blood alcohol tests after the accident showed Richard had been one and a half times over the legal drink drive limit . |
| 13 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 14 | Nordhausen had been one of these places . |
| 15 | Although Taiwan maintained diplomatic relations with almost 30 countries , South Korea had been one of the most important and was Taiwan 's last formal diplomatic ally in Asia . |
| 16 | England had been one of the first countries to adopt Gothic designs but was one of the last to relinquish the style which passed into a Perpendicular phase unique to the British Isles . |
| 17 | In a series of other cases from eyres where Mettingham had been one of the justices the auditors accepted his ‘ record ’ that he had not been sitting in the court when the case concerned was decided . |
| 18 | Later that evening , Simon had been one of the crowd that had ended up at their house for coffee . |
| 19 | Tatarstan had been one of the two Russian Federation constituent republics to refuse to sign the Federation Treaty in March 1992 , holding instead a referendum on self-government [ see p. 38825-26 ] . |
| 20 | The USSR had been one of the first governments to recognise the state of Israel in 1948 , but Soviet support was thereafter thrown behind the Arab cause and behind the Egyptian war effort in particular . |
| 21 | Fräulein had been two years already at The Towers . |
| 22 | Sometimes during her lucid moments , she thought that Annunziata could not have been kinder if Julia had been one of her daughters . |
| 23 | Martin had been one of the post-war most-likely-to-succeed Oxbridge brigade . |
| 24 | If she and Tom had been two men he would have been discretion itself , she thought . |
| 25 | Podkrepa had been one of the founding members of the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) now in government . |
| 26 | Sister Casualty had been two years junior to Margaret in training . |
| 27 | Besides Pamela Chrimes , Nadia Nerina had been one of the company 's early members ; John had known her briefly in Johannesburg when they were both schoolchildren , and they met again in Cape Town just before she left for Britain in October 1945 . |
| 28 | Casey had been one of the most prominent Irish bishops for 23 years and was a well-known campaigner for the poor in Ireland and the Third World . |
| 29 | In Berlin , Bismarck pretended to believe that the internal instability affecting France presented a danger to the peace of Europe , remarking to the British Ambassador that : ‘ If the present Constitutional Government in France had been three years instead of three months in existence , there would be some chance for its duration and the maintenance of peace . ’ |
| 30 | Sally had been two stones ( 28lb/12.5kg ) overweight for ten years following the birth of her son . |