Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Future events were to prove just how right Stirling had been in making the latter observations and how his basic principles were to be constantly watered down by interference from outside bodies trying to get their hands on the SAS Regiment , which achieved its greatest successes when left to its own devices . |
| 2 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 3 | Most of his full-scale skirmishes had been in NoGos or Urban Blight areas . |
| 4 | The training of the vernacular clergy had been in the hands of Arthur Dilworth , the first time that a missionary had been completely set aside for this important task . |
| 5 | Although railed tramways had been in use in various parts of the country from the middle of the 18th century , generally in connection with coal mines , the first true railway in Scotland was the line from Kilmarnock to Troon . |
| 6 | Elizabeth Schwarzkopf was another " must " even though the ticket cost a " phenomenal amount " to the girl whose own first public appearance had been in a best dress made from the contents of the poor box . |
| 7 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
| 8 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 9 | If the hon. Gentleman had been in earlier , he would have heard the hon. Member for Harrow , East ( Mr. Dykes ) saying that last week he had attended a debate on this subject in the Bundestag . |
| 10 | Quite a lot of top managers had been in the agency business . |
| 11 | And why not ? — the British Army had been in Osnabrück since 1945 . |
| 12 | English mathematics had been in a contemptible state for so long that one could hardly have expected a solution to such an important problem to come from that quarter . |
| 13 | Mr. Chapman 's last entry in the journal noted that at 8.45 a.m. a ten-year-old boy had been in the sick ward for three days but had been taken much worse . |
| 14 | And it dawned upon him suddenly how right Hugh had been in saying that he , Cadfael , spoke by instinct of this hollow reliquary , as good as empty , as though it truly contained the wonder whose name it bore . |
| 15 | Tests showed the 25mm-long insect had been in the pickle for some time and environmental health officers inspected the premises . |
| 16 | Gregory Pincus , the ’ father ’ of the birth control Pill ( whose previous work had been in IVF ) , decided to go into family planning after he was convinced of a ’ population explosion ’ . |
| 17 | The first really large wave of Jewish immigrants had been in 1881 with the pogroms of Alexander III in Russia . |
| 18 | It could have been worse ; since the first strike had occurred at 9.30 p.m. after the main factory work-hours , and only a skeleton-crew shift had been in operation at that time . |
| 19 | The party was controlled by a small group of Soviet-trained communists ; a few leading figures had been in Yenan . |
| 20 | It is obvious that before the sample was obtained another form of natural selection had been in progress : earlier purchases by the public and by the booksellers themselves . |
| 21 | During the period of joint occupation , monthly payments had been in the sum of £173.32 … |
| 22 | Frau Hess had not come to say goodbye — ill in bed — and little Buz had been in the nursery . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the idea of a National Government had been in the air for some time before its actual formation . |
| 24 | Mr Mark Davies , NUM branch secretary , said the trapped men had been in high spirits throughout their ordeal , singing and joking and , at times , trying to move rubble themselves . |
| 25 | Previous popes had been in France , and the teaching of the school of St Victor in Paris and of Peter Abelard was known to them , but Innocent III may have been the first pope to have studied at the Paris schools . |
| 26 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 27 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 28 | Momoh claimed that Burkinabe regular troops had been in action alongside the rebels . |
| 29 | In Pura , a village in Kamataka , Professor Amulva Reddy and his colleagues from the Indian Institute of Science found that 96 per cent of the wood that poor families burned was in the form of twigs . |
| 30 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |