Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response had been massive strikes in the public sector . |
| 2 | Several could not recall subscribing to Channel 7 ; one had refused to subscribe ; one had signed up for a trial period at some point ; and the majority had been unhappy with the service . |
| 3 | Most of them , she observed , were Asian or Caribbean , in contrast to the machine shop where the majority had been white . |
| 4 | With half the regiment away on exercise and some on the range , the remainder had been busy . |
| 5 | I received twenty completed record sheets — and a load of very apologetic letters explaining why the remainder had been unable to do justice to the trial . |
| 6 | ‘ Anna and the prince had been married , well , if not for twenty years , not much short of it . |
| 7 | The ridge had been alive with walkers . |
| 8 | Her last bathroom back in the squat had been mouldy , iced-up in winter , and mostly decorated with the husks of dead bugs in spiderwebs . |
| 9 | The struggle against such controls was long and hard , and it was not , for example , until the mid twentieth century in England , where the struggle had been early and relatively successful , that the last general form of this kind was abolished , in the theatre . |
| 10 | The struggle had been silent . |
| 11 | The trial had been due to begin on Jan. 28 , but was delayed after Noriega 's lawyers claimed that the prosecution had used procedures which threatened to deny the defendant a fair trial . |
| 12 | The trial had been supposed to provide a dramatic climax of sorts . |
| 13 | The trial had been remarkable , since the court had visited a prison in Italy in order to hear evidence from members of the BR , who were in custody there . |
| 14 | Up until then the cinema had been taboo but Mrs Burrows , in her fifties and approaching retirement , was taking a broader outlook . |
| 15 | It appeared that my guess about the tide had been near enough . |
| 16 | If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice . |
| 17 | By the end of November the Resistance had been domesticated , the leadership of the Communist Party ( PCF ) had fallen into line behind the government , and de Gaulle was in uncontested control of liberated territory . |
| 18 | The text had been unequivocal ; it specified the involvement of a member of the Imperial Court . |
| 19 | This striding away would not have mattered if the Padre had been able to keep up with him … but the Padre could not move unaided . |
| 20 | He believed , moreover , that although man 's reason had gone some way in ‘ its great and proper business of morality ’ , the progress had been slow . |
| 21 | The wafer had been three inches long and one and a half inches wide , and had been inserted between the two strands of leather precisely against the young man 's backbone . |
| 22 | Subramanian Swamy , Minister of Law and Justice and of Commerce , said on May 29 that the government was convinced that the LTTE had been involved in the assassination . |
| 23 | Lord Arbuthnott , who presented a plaque and scroll to the Nevis Range directors , said that the decision had been unanimous . |
| 24 | Chairman James Unruh said the decision had been painful for Unisys , but that the company saw little choice . |
| 25 | Harvey said later that he thought the decision had been harsh and added that there had been no warning given about time-wasting before the game , although he accepted that Tyson could have mentioned it to the players during the match , a fact confirmed by the referee as he left the ground . |
| 26 | So , for example , recent authority suggests a provision to the effect that the issuing of a certificate ‘ shall be conclusive evidence ’ that the conditions for the issue of the certificate had been satisfied would normally be effective to oust judicial review of the decision to issue the certificate . |
| 27 | The gang had been intimidating passengers and had attacked the driver and a woman guard . |
| 28 | Quite the opposite had been evident from his tone of voice . |
| 29 | But the parting had been dignified . |
| 30 | The experience had been undramatic . |