Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Mills , the United States had been through five epochs . |
| 2 | It was awkward , too , from the sales point of view , that Richard had been aboard one of these barges when he got knocked over the head . |
| 3 | The range from the firing point to where the rounds impacted was between 35 metres ( the shot that hit Barling ) and 30 metres ( the ones that hit the pillar ) … ’ |
| 4 | The adjournment ordered was until 2 July 1991 . |
| 5 | Dr Curtis had been in four times . |
| 6 | In July , Tilden Barham , the Battle relieving officer , was carried out of the parish as his Brede counterpart had been in 1830 , a fate shared with the officer at Willingdon , who was led out by jeering women and children . |
| 7 | The most recent public execution in Albania had been in 1986 . |
| 8 | The largest flock noted was of 60 birds , but parties of up to 20 are much more usual and many records are of single birds . |
| 9 | According to Danas ( 9 September 1986 ) , in 1985 the number of persons subject to this tax was a little over 13,000 ( compared with about 9 million persons in employment or self-employment in that year ) , and the tax raised was about 1 3 billion dinars ( compared with a total gross public revenue in that year of 3,736 billion dinars ) . |
| 10 | When Bigwig had spoken earlier of sounding out the Owsla , Hazel had been in two minds . |
| 11 | The first really large wave of Jewish immigrants had been in 1881 with the pogroms of Alexander III in Russia . |
| 12 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 13 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 14 | She carried their drinks into the living room and asked Ralph if he had managed to see his solicitor ; the appointment had been at 2 p.m . |
| 15 | In fact the earliest exports to Australia had been in 1820 but the breed did not become established for another 30 years . |
| 16 | John Baring 's father had been from 1882 senior partner in the merchant bank of Baring Brothers , and he himself joined the firm on leaving Cambridge , served his apprenticeship as a clerk , travelled widely in North and South America , and was made a full partner early in 1890 . |
| 17 | They had known they were on the knife edge , and interest rates had been at 8 per cent . |
| 18 | During the entire movement , none of the aircraft were damaged and the only incident recorded was of one Spitfire performing a forced landing in a farmer 's field while en route to Prestwick . |
| 19 | Ballistics experts proved the pellets had been from two air rifles found in Dines ' car . |
| 20 | The last occasion upon which a Canadian Prime Minister had attempted to use the British monarch to alter the composition of the Senate had been in 1874 , when Queen Victoria had rejected a request from Alexander Mackenzie . |
| 21 | According to a friend Patricia had been to two fortune tellers recently . |
| 22 | Dr Mardell said the last distribution of aid in Srebrenica before his arrival had been on 12 December and had provided four kilos of flour per family — enough for about one week . |
| 23 | [ For third congress in February 1986 see p. 34230 ; the second congress had been in 1980 — see p. 30817 — and the first in 1975 — see p. 27595 . |
| 24 | The last congress had been in 1985 . |
| 25 | Their increase in money wages had been from 21s 9d to 36s ( £1.08 — £1.80 ) , an increase of 66 per cent . |
| 26 | Although reveille had been at 0400 hours , the landing would not be made until first light at 0850 . |
| 27 | The transition from symbol to politician was to be far more protracted and painful than the transition from soldier to symbol had been in 1940 . |
| 28 | Sylvie suddenly remembered how uncomfortable in his own skin Leo had been at fourteen . |
| 29 | The detainees had been among 115 signatories of an open letter to Siyad Barre which called for a negotiated end to civil war , respect for human and civil rights , and multiparty elections . |
| 30 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |