Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 2 | By the end of the year he had obtained livery of his spiritualities and temporalities , although a protracted and bitter dispute ensued for over a year with Archbishop Walter Reynolds [ q.v. ] over the sums Hamo claimed as due to him for vacancy , during which the see of Rochester had been in the archbishop 's hands . |
| 3 | Everyone he had met in Fontanellato had been very kind , a good deal kinder than the people of Štanjel had been to his successor ; which was encouraging . |
| 4 | The Judaization of Jerusalem had been under way since the Israelis occupied the whole city in 1967 , but this was the first occasion on which Jews had moved into the Christian Quarter . |
| 5 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet about the method of electing a President , and for over a week members of the opposition Democratic Party of Tadjikistan had been on hunger strike in support of popular elections . |
| 6 | President François Mitterrand of France had been on board the yacht two days previously during a private visit . |
| 7 | At the end of the sixteenth century the ‘ crowned republic ’ of Poland had been in some ways one of the great powers of Europe . |
| 8 | Dear little thing he was , just like Jenny had been at his age . |
| 9 | Until the early 1980s , unemployment in Sheffield had been below the national average for the whole of the post-war period . |
| 10 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 11 | This confirmed a dramatic reversal in the political fortunes of the Azerbaijan Popular Front , which in January had been on the verge of taking power with mass support until Soviet troops had staged a bloody crackdown . |
| 12 | Shelter 's research has found up to half of all homeless young people in Scotland had been in care , but only 34 per cent of district councils categorise them as vulnerable . |
| 13 | The man leading the hunt for the killer , Det Chief Insp Barry Hill , said forensic experts from Wetherby had been to the scene . |
| 14 | The most recent public execution in Albania had been in 1986 . |
| 15 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 16 | " All men fought ; all men in England had been to India for the duration of the last war , leaving behind them a country of women . |
| 17 | They said that an AI group from Austria had been in touch with them with help and support , and that people from all over the world were pressing for his release . |
| 18 | Some of the very earliest composing machines in Britain had been in use in Edinburgh in the 1860s . |
| 19 | The violent street demonstration witnessed by Abercrombie in Beirut had been in protest at these electoral violations . |
| 20 | The opposition MPs who opposed the Government move claimed that only one small bookmaker in Edinburgh had been in favour of late opening . |
| 21 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 22 | Paul Gascoigne 's career and his hugely expensive transfer to Lazio had been in doubt ever since his disastrous knee injury in last year 's FA Cup Final , but the night club fracas which brought about a further fracture made a successful recovery look still less likely . |
| 23 | Aleksandr Shokhin , the minister in charge of social protection , said at a news conference on Feb. 5 that price rises since January had been in the region of 300-350 per cent rather than the 250 per cent anticipated by the government . |
| 24 | Climate Changer is an intriguing choice , since its business to date has been developing applications for the air-conditioning industry — its previous link to OCT had been as a large user of the machines . |
| 25 | My visit to Harrogate had been to gee me on . |
| 26 | In fact the earliest exports to Australia had been in 1820 but the breed did not become established for another 30 years . |
| 27 | However , the Court did conclude that the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan had been in violation of international law . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , strike partner While there has been no doubting the high regard Beardsley is held in around Everton , many had begun to question Mo Johnston , whose future at Goodison had been in doubt after two months in the cold , looks to have earned a temporary reprieve following his equaliser against Liverpool . |
| 29 | The junior leader training at the Army Apprentice College at Harrogate had been on weekend leave and was due back at 11pm on Sunday . |
| 30 | Dragging him away from the house at Harlaching had been like drawing teeth , and on the drive to the airfield he had stopped the car to pick wild flowers , in the name of God ! |