Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [been] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1926 new and much more powerful express passenger and freight locomotive designs had been prepared to his directions and , whilst these were nullified by opposition within a divided management structure , in 1927 the Royal Scot express locomotives were introduced for principal main-line services . |
| 2 | The authority of the clergy had been second to none during the years of persecution and this appears to have strengthened as a direct result of Roman centralization from the 1850s onwards . |
| 3 | If the lower clergy had been sympathetic to church reform on ‘ Jansenist ’ lines the hierarchy was hostile and , as the liberal attack on church property developed , it was joined by all but a handful of liberal priests . |
| 4 | The tobacco growers had been accustomed to trading practically exclusively with their home country for reasons of language and sentiment , because it was safer , and because England and the London re-export trade provided an adequate market for all the tobacco they could grow . |
| 5 | Judge David told them , their lives had been devoted to the relief of pain and suffering but in this case they chose to inflict considerable pain on a young woman in their care , isolated by their way of life . |
| 6 | Prior to the technical innovations by the Coal Board , miners had been used to working in small autonomous groups or teams . |
| 7 | Its 99 articles had been subject to public scrutiny since January and the final endorsement of each one provoked lengthy and often heated exchanges among CNU representatives . |
| 8 | Right from the times of the giant horsetails and ferns , insects had been accustomed to visiting the tops of trees to gather spores as food . |
| 9 | Professionally the years had been good to him , though it was a great disappointment to Maud that he had specialized in diseases of the mind . |
| 10 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |
| 11 | These officers had been loyal to Allende . |
| 12 | The latest studies of the fossil record , however , suggested that many families had been subject to a constant trend towards increasing levels of specialization . |
| 13 | It seemed that the doctor 's hunch had been right : all these problems had been due to Candida . |
| 14 | Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes . |
| 15 | Now it 's glossy cream and pale blue and beautiful , but I find myself looking out of the window at the broken slats of the fence between our house and the next , and understanding very well why canals and tulips and windmills and clear blue Dutch skies had been important to the woman who had stood in that kitchen before me . |
| 16 | In the end , only 15 per cent of the school leavers considered that their qualifications had been essential to their getting jobs . |
| 17 | Some geologists believed that the earth 's climate alternated between periods of warm , moist conditions and intervals in which the northern regions had been subject to a much harsher climate . |
| 18 | With great trepidation and much backsliding the tsar eventually granted the serfs a sort of freedom , but if their interests had been dear to his heart he could have committed himself earlier and pressed harder for a settlement which gave them an economically viable future . |
| 19 | A possible explanation is that the Celtic tradition remained in these areas longer than the south and west , the people of which with their close Gallic links had been subject to greater Roman influence before the conquest , this region too was where the vast majority of the figured pottery was made . |
| 20 | The art of management , however , was more than the successful bribery of fifty per cent plus one , if for no other reason than the fact that there was never enough of the articles of bribery to employ it on such a scale , even if the voters had been willing to be so bought . |
| 21 | It was certainly a Northumbrian claim , however , that the Scots as well as the Picts had been subject to Northumbrian domination . |
| 22 | All over Europe sailors had been accustomed to drawing a meridian through a point in their own country or through the furthest point to the west out in the Atlantic that they could determine with any certainty , and English sailors had usually taken their fixed meridian from a point west of the Lizard ( the last promontory of land they could see as they left the English Channel ) . |
| 23 | The Romans had been used to the idea of employing rams to push down walls , and catapults to throw stones at or over them . |