Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those killed or injured were working men going peacefully about their lawful occasions , yet the terrorists did not hesitate to murder or maim them . |
| 2 | The next thing that happened was six years after the Select Committee . |
| 3 | The only thing that happened was that Dad came into the kitchen where Oliver was crying because someone had broken the jar in which he kept his stick insects and said , ‘ What 's the matter , old chap ? |
| 4 | Lawrence is scathing about the Status Quos of this world and equally convinced that Felt 's pre-planned demise was a good idea . |
| 5 | The life that grew was half tree , half man . |
| 6 | But as some of the books had been through more than one library , the actual figures that emerged were 260 books from 292 libraries . |
| 7 | As a result of the ‘ literate mentality ’ that these institutions helped to form in England , and to which Lyons and fellow academics now subscribe , later historians , looking back to records of eleventh century England , tended to discard medallions , seals and other material objects that had been major criteria of validation in the oral culture of that period . |
| 8 | Have n't talked since that marvellous Bassanio you did at the Vic ’ — that had been fifteen years before — ‘ lovely performance . ’ |
| 9 | For example , the addition of magnesium fertilizers in Norway and Germany 's Black Forest has resulted in recovery in young spruce trees that had been suffering chlorosis ( Printz , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Silence fell as Creggan and the other eagles that had been listening thought about what Minch had told them . |
| 11 | But my experience is also , if we 'd bought the books that had been printed neighbours in the first place , no one would have noticed the difference . |
| 12 | All that had been two months ago . |
| 13 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 14 | They have gone through privatization and ceased being Civil Servants and gone out into the cold and now they are suffering this blow , so they do , I think , deserve the most generous possible treatment . |
| 15 | Tamas Vasary , a former Northern Sinfonia director of music , conducted and secured am impressive performance . |
| 16 | The only douceur which he asked for and obtained was 11 Downing Street . |
| 17 | The evidence of actual bystanders of what they saw and felt is some evidence of what the hypothetical bystander would have been likely to feel . |
| 18 | and they went to the wrong door and said is this car anything |
| 19 | He had led the party since 1984 , succeeding Dom Mintoff [ see p. 33794 ] , and had been Prime Minister from then until the party 's defeat in 1987 . |
| 20 | Allegations had been first made against Papandreou and three other politicians in connection with their dealings with the bank in late 1988 [ see p. 36562 ] and had been one factor in the electoral victory of the New Democracy party in April 1990 . |
| 21 | Beattie was a senior foreman and had been twenty years with his company . |
| 22 | There were no questions or interjections from the floor of the Chamber , as is customary in the British House of Commons , and as had been common debating practice during the Second Republic . |