Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in that case the defendants had been aware of the plaintiff 's medical evidence and to avoid possible objections at trial it is good practice to amend to plead any substantial changes to the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 2 | It is a matter for speculation whether or not this would have been enough to cut the ground from underneath the feet of the DHAC , but in any case the situation had been radically transformed by the 5 October march and by the prorogation of Londonderry Corporation announced on 22 November 1968 by the O'Neill government . |
| 3 | In addition , in their case the car had been stolen . |
| 4 | In that case the plaintiff had been involved in a car accident . |
| 5 | I tried all the channels from 1 to 40 in case the hijackers had been messing about with the rig in the truck , but still got nothing . |
| 6 | And you measure the angle through which you 've had to turn to get to that position , and which direction you 've had to turn it through or rather , which direction the light had been rotated through . |
| 7 | In the planning sphere it has been used to invalidate conditions attached to planning permission such as that the developer should construct an ancillary road over the frontage of the site at his own expense to which rights of passage should be given to others , and that a property developer should allow those on a council housing list to occupy the houses with security of tenure for 10 years.u The test has also been adopted in the context of industrial relations , though in this instance the decision attacked was upheld . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 9 | The advocate depute submitted that at the trial the view had been taken by the advocate depute and counsel for the defence that there was sufficient evidence to support the view that the two appellants were acting in concert . |
| 10 | But because of the storm the hatches had been battened down and no matter how hard she searched she could not find a way out of the hold . |
| 11 | A major difficulty the divers faced was caused by a lack of valves . |
| 12 | When they 'd first re-entered the apartment the place had been crawling with a crowd of men who were mending the air-conditioning , installing a computer and modem to a fresh telephone line , and plugging in the dreaded fax machine . |
| 13 | During the course the group had been briefed on the technical skills and safety requirements needed to complete the task . |
| 14 | Unless of course the car had been moved again after Harry had made his unscheduled reappearance . |
| 15 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 16 | Along the crest of this ridge the rock had been exposed in several places , and eroded into a line of towers and pinnacles . |
| 17 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 18 | The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said . |
| 19 | Throughout Napoleon 's exile the violet had been the symbol of the Bonapartistes , for the violet was the flower which , like the deposed Emperor , would return in the spring . |
| 20 | Another allegation the scum made was that certain Leeds pubs have a happy hour on the date of the Munich crash ( Feb 4th ? ) . |
| 21 | This school was to be subjected to a number of air raid attacks , but the greatest loss the school suffered was when the Allen Homes were totally destroyed in 1942 . |
| 22 | In the early Liverpool days of Big Flame the comrades had been obsessed with the potential of Ford workers as leaders of the British revolution , and had put great effort into organizing and recruiting at the local Halewood plant . |
| 23 | This had not been intended to be legalistic , but in practice the claimant had been put in the position of an ordinary plaintiff in a civil case arguing a case against a powerful insurance company or mutual insurance society ( Potter and Stansfield , 1950 ) . |
| 24 | The central dilemma the Committee faced was how to achieve a balance in company boards between strong direction and accountability . |
| 25 | Therefore the letter is either a fake , or the diver the writer saw was a Russian still inspecting the ship for other British frogmen . |
| 26 | From the revenue side the solution adopted was to change both tax bases and tax rates . |
| 27 | At this end of the village the night had been quiet , but in the Untouchable quarter to the west , there 'd been quite a kerfuffle . |
| 28 | The cat the dog chased was a tabby |
| 29 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 30 | In his first schoolboy poetry the theme had been of love withered and decayed — practically the last lines he ever wrote were of " the certainty of love unchanging " . |