Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A military spokesman said that a batch of 120 had been put on a ship to return to their units in Cagayan de Oro on the southern island of Mindanao . |
| 2 | By January of 1802 a fence of quick had been planted all round the site and John Wing reported that the foundations were dug out and in part laid . |
| 3 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 4 | He said Fisher 's plea of guilty had been a mitigating factor . |
| 5 | Anyway a gang of these had been caught and the crowd now vented their fury by pelting them with rotten eggs whilst householders tipped chamber pots from upper stories . |
| 6 | The Great Reform Act of 1832 had been followed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 ; the extensions of the franchise in 1867 and 1894 were accompanied by further discussions of local government reform . |
| 7 | The budget for the first half of 1918 had been estimated at 17.6 milliard roubles expenditure , but revenue at only 2.8 milliard . |
| 8 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |
| 9 | In October the government announced that CFC production in West Germany during the first half of 1990 had been reduced to 42,820 tonnes ( as compared with 112,000 tonnes during the whole of 1986 ) . |
| 10 | The contents of each had been disturbed . |
| 11 | At 0800 hrs the contents of 0.410 had been passed on as AC/188 [ KP 96 ] , to 15th Army Group , with a copy for information to Gen Morgan , the Chief of Staff at AFHQ . |
| 12 | The rebels of 1182 had been defeated , but they had weighed up one of their conquerors — and they also saw an opportunity . |
| 13 | Once the immediate crisis of 1940 had been weathered and the country embarked upon the long haul of productive effort and austerity , groups like the ‘ 1941 Committee ’ pressed Britain 's war aims in terms of plans for the future . |
| 14 | Over 900,000 of the province 's population of 9,000,000 had been displaced by the war , and a further 205,737 were categorized as " affected " by the emergency . |
| 15 | The spines were also slightly changed in shape ; it was as if the head of each had been blown up like a little balloon — just what biophysical theory would predict would need to happen if the electrical connections between the pre-and postsynaptic sides were being strengthened when the chick pecked the bitter bead ; and exactly the sort of change which might be predicted as a consequence of increased glycoprotein synthesis . |
| 16 | ( The government 's economic policy and budget for the rest of 1992 had been promised for Feb. 15 . ) |
| 17 | The expansion of the Virgin operation , the sharp influx of profits ( the loss of £900,000 reported at the beginning of 1981 had been turned into a profit of £1.5m by the beginning of 1982 ) , and the more aggressive attitude of performers to selling themselves had all put Virgin in a more competitive milieu and frame of mind . |
| 18 | At Christchurch , proposals to replace the Gothic station of 1877 had been made at the time of the First World War and again in the 1930s , but it was not demolished until the 1950s , when it was replaced by a modern station more successful than most . |
| 19 | Alexei held to the opinion that they could not be naturally evolved , and thought that the single horn which projected from the forehead of each had been the whim probably of some Second Empire geneticist . |
| 20 | Fixing to his boat 's prow the cross on which the oaths of 839 had been sworn , Charles led his flotilla over the river . |
| 21 | Entry into the artillery or engineer branches through Woolwich demanded early action , for a candidate had to be placed on the list at eleven years old , in order to hope to secure a place before the age limit of fifteen had been passed . |
| 22 | The limit imposed by the state of Missouri on malpractice lawsuit awards had been challenged on behalf of a 13-year-old girl , Nicole Adams , who at the age of eight had been left blind and brain-damaged by an anaesthesia error during a skin graft operation . |
| 23 | As they munched hungrily he learned how Tommy at the age of eighteen had been given the choice of two years at His Majesty 's pleasure or volunteering to fight for King and country . |
| 24 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 25 | Poems from the ‘ April Fifth ’ movement of 1976 had been posted there during 1978 . |
| 26 | Larkins drove the winning run and one of the most remarkable Test victories of all had been achieved . |
| 27 | Launch capital of 100,000 had been committed , with the idea that the publication would be self-supporting by the end of that time . |
| 28 | The first Labour government of 1924 had been ineffective and supported by the Liberals . |
| 29 | A profit of 172.72 had been made , including the raffle. was to ask for final details . |
| 30 | Neither was it beyond the bounds of probability that a man of eighty-three had been confused about the time . |