Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 2 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 3 | He was reminded of his right of silence by being cautioned on two occasions within a short time of his arrival and , acting on the advice of his attorney , he remained silent when he might have been expected to explain that the shooting had been due to an accident . |
| 4 | The seat had been Tory since 1970 and had been held since 1974 by Sir Charles , who retained it with a sizeable personal vote . |
| 5 | Perhaps the swank had been right in that one respect when he jeered at Biff 's diligent efforts in the Scriptory … |
| 6 | Now , his car had been unscathed in the wee knock but he felt aggrieved that she had not checked . |
| 7 | SMETANA and Dvorak — the RSNO 's programme had been tailor-made for Walter Weller and one had looked forward to a good wallow ; to tunes , and torrents of the particularly lush sounds he and his orchestra make together . |
| 8 | Incidentally the lesson would have been better if there had been more tape recorders in the school and if the tape had been ready at the right moment . |
| 9 | He would never forget that time when a corporal had been machine-gunned in an ambush on a country road near Palermo . |
| 10 | On the other hand , the staff felt that the project would have taken a different form and provoked different responses from teachers if an outsider had been present at meetings . |
| 11 | The incident sparked off a riot which lasted for three days [ see p. 37081 ] , and racial tension had been high during the trial . |
| 12 | The Technical College had been disappointed in not being nominated a college of advanced technology , and the Principal wrote in 1965 that ‘ prior to the publication of the Robbins Report we confidently expected to be designated as one of the colleges of advanced technology … |
| 13 | Bacon and Eltis went on to suggest that labour had been successful in protecting itself from erosion of C m , so that adjustment had fallen largely on I m i.e. investment in the marketable sector . |
| 14 | Meryl had joined them with some reluctance after the welcoming address , but the moment had been well chosen ; Anthea and the professor had been deep in conversation with an eager group of ladies from Leicester , leaving Meryl momentarily alone . |
| 15 | how far the review had been useful in producing proposals for change ; |
| 16 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 17 | If the Sudan Defence Force had been unsuccessful in capturing this oasis , they would be in grave difficulty , stuck in the desert without fuel , water or rations . |
| 18 | If they were implicated in the cover-up it seemed inconceivable that the President had been unaware of what was going on . |
| 19 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 20 | The Archbishop of San Salvador , Mgr Arturo Rivera y Damas , claimed that he had evidence that members of the army 's 1st Infantry Battalion had been involved in the massacre . |
| 21 | Mr. Wright added that the committee had been impressed by the prompt action by Teiman . |
| 22 | It was not until the early sixties that he was able to resume his film career , but his post-blacklist work had been undistinguished by two top-heavy Yul Brynner spectacles , Taras Bulba ( 1962 ) and Flight from Ashiya ( 1964 ) . |
| 23 | The work had been far from her thoughts all evening . |
| 24 | The sorry plight of an ailing club continued with the news that a supporters ' coach had been involved in a crash and that only 12 youngsters could be rounded up to take on Leicester in a youth match . |
| 25 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 26 | The issue had been complicated by unclear statements from the DoH . |
| 27 | However , the whole emotive issue had been complicated by the case of a 14-year-old rape victim , whom the Dublin High Court in February sought to debar from travelling to London for an abortion . |
| 28 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 29 | Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn . |
| 30 | It may be that other disaffected Anglian elements also gave assistance and it would be surprising if no help had been forthcoming from the men of Powys , who can not have been unaffected by Aethelfrith 's victory at Chester and the recent warfare between the northern Angles and the king of Gwynedd . |