Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the books I re-read forever is ‘ Robinson Crusoe ’ and another is ‘ Treasure Island ’ and these , to me , are the great examples of the plain style , I could n't write in a baroque style . |
| 2 | He had secured the support not just of members of parties which had formerly been members of the ruling coalition , but also of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — the former Communist Party ) and the Greens . |
| 3 | The police are now trying to recover two more stolen cars which had already been sold for up to thirty thousand pounds . |
| 4 | The biggest breakthrough in the farm came with the arrival on the scene of a small grey tractor called a Fergie and it seemed as though almost everybody had at least one and it became the jack of all trades on the farm and implements which had previously been pulled by horses had their shafts removed and couplings were made to fit them behind the tractor . |
| 5 | During the Fifties , the national pattern of soaring costs and falling revenue was reflected in Blackpool ; Franklin countered by cutting winter and off-peak services and the generous concessions which had previously been given . |
| 6 | It would probably unleash another burst of investment as firms took advantage of opportunities which had hitherto been regarded as too risky . |
| 7 | Jean d'Armagnac , following on the reluctance of the estates , meeting at Angoulême to contribute their share of a tax , refused to allow it to be collected in his lands , pleading ancient privileges which had always been enjoyed locally . |
| 8 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |
| 9 | When he had left , she was still prevented from giving way to rage as Penny put through one of the DJs she had already been out with once , ringing to ask if she would like to go to a Mongolian barbecue with him that evening . |
| 10 | Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group . |
| 11 | It does complain that the tabloids put the fear of tax increases into readers who had not been targeted by Smith 's budget . |
| 12 | Sycorax was lying in the common pit , alongside the cadavers of islanders who had also been caught in the fighting , and were awaiting return for burial under the terms of the peace . |
| 13 | The following table shows where a sample of school-leavers who had either been on a government Youth Opportunities Scheme ( YOPS ) or been unemployed for six weeks by the beginning of October 1978 had ended up by April 1979 . |
| 14 | Well first of all I 'd like to erm say that erm the last gentlemen who phoned in is a very lucky driver . |
| 15 | Of the five potential transplant candidates who had not been referred and who had died , two suffered hepatocellular carcinoma ( diagnosed during routine monitoring in both instances , one with no further imaging , one with imaging showing tumour localised to the liver ) and three had cryptogenic cirrhosis ( one of these three patients was referred to a regional unit but not to a transplant unit ) . |
| 16 | Teenagers who conceived pre-maritally were five times as likely as the average to have been conceived pre-maritally themselves . |
| 17 | Now frantic supporters who lost out are willing to pay up to £75 for a voucher they need to buy a ticket for the cup final on May 9 . |
| 18 | The research focus shifted to the role of the message in referential communication , and also to listeners who had hitherto been regarded as a somewhat passive element . |
| 19 | The huts we stayed in were full of tourists from every corner of the globe . |
| 20 | Celibate clergy there had always been . |
| 21 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 22 | But now the huts they worked in are threatened with demolition . |
| 23 | And we found that about twenty two percent of the er , sheep being entered , had been dipped within the period , so in other words they 'd not been withheld , so it 's a concern . |
| 24 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 25 | In previous relationships it had always been Lotta who had moved on to better things ; she 'd never been rejected before and she felt angry and humiliated , particularly as she saw her standard of living about to fall . ’ |
| 26 | No doubt the clients he entertained here were people who expected the best . |
| 27 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 28 | It seemed to me richer and stranger than the pearls themselves had ever been — and richer and stranger still now that they had gone . |
| 29 | His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition . |
| 30 | The institutions which had previously been set up to aid small farmers had their lending capacity cut considerably , making it difficult for many of the beneficiaries to find sufficient capital . |