Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] had [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |
| 2 | Three families in Ayrshire , for instance , who had eight children taken away in a raid in June 1990 ; little was heard of their situation until after the Orkney case had been in the headlines for some time . |
| 3 | Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ . |
| 4 | Mrs Thatcher stonewalled her way through Question Time , repeatedly arguing that the Rover deal had been in the best interests of the taxpayer . |
| 5 | Mr punch had been in high spirits , too , in the summer of 1856 , thinking that crinoline was a great joke . |
| 6 | Robert Meaby , whose brother Brian and the Eastbourne captain had been on the wrong end of a five and four beating in the bottom match , had with Christopher Walker already enjoyed a fair share of excitement , halving the shorter length with a birdie putt after Shrewsbury had chipped in for a two . |
| 7 | Before 1979 , 90 per cent of RX business had been in copier rental : capital realized by the sale of these machines was to be reinvested in training . |
| 8 | Joseph Freeman had been on trial as a porter , and his appointment was confirmed . |
| 9 | Lesley-Jane Decker had been on stage at the time of the shooting , so , unless she had brought in a hired killer , she seemed to be in the clear . |
| 10 | On Nov. 26 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the United Kingdom government had been in breach of the Convention on Human Rights in attempting to prevent three newspapers from publishing extracts from Spycatcher , the memoirs of the former MI5 officer Peter Wright [ see pp. 35537-39 ; 36155-56 ; 36502-03 ; 37158 ; 37784 ] . |
| 11 | Important as the victory at Stirling Bridge had been for Scottish pride , there was , after a period of despondency and subjugation , to be an even more significant battlefield above the Bannock Burn two miles south of the town . |
| 12 | The poem was the finest Wordsworth had yet written , and , coming so soon after his departure from Alfoxden , suggests that the loss to him of the Quantock countryside had been of little real significance . |
| 13 | The late Derek Cross had been through the tunnel on the footplate of an A3 Pacific and a Class 40 diesel and on both occasions he had been very pleased to see the other end of the tunnel , such is its evil , brooding , emotive reputation . |
| 14 | But if the British Barlow Clowes operation had been within the licensing net , it is more likely that the Department of Trade would have found out at a much earlier stage that Mr Peter Clowes was running a parallel offshore operation — first in Jersey and then in Gibraltar . |
| 15 | George Wing had been with Hay ever since they met at 1660 Heavy Bomber Conversion Unit . |
| 16 | A Maniak chapter had been through last week , and one or two of them were still around , enjoying the yakuza hospitality at the ze Schluderpacheru place . |
| 17 | In July , Tilden Barham , the Battle relieving officer , was carried out of the parish as his Brede counterpart had been in 1830 , a fate shared with the officer at Willingdon , who was led out by jeering women and children . |
| 18 | The FPR 's latest unsuccessful incursion into Rwandan territory had been in late January [ see p. 37950-51 ] . |
| 19 | However , it became increasingly obvious during the next two years that the Ryder Report had been over optimistic about the market share of Leyland , and that even large injections of capital were insufficient to overcome the problems of poor labour relations , low productivity and entrenched attitudes . |
| 20 | Even the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) , though working to a different agenda from that of other critics of the official line , felt that the Libyan contribution to the Lockerbie disaster had been of a low-level technical nature . |
| 21 | A lot of Verity Lambert 's involvement at ABC TV had been in the realm of scripts , hence in their early days together she and David Whitaker worked very closely in the selecting of Doctor Who stories and the nature of their content . |