Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catering to the needs of the poor would hardly have doubled the number of London architects in twenty years ( from just over 1,000 to 2,000 — in the 1830s there had probably been fewer than one hundred ) , though building and renting slum property could be a very lucrative business , judged by the income per cubic foot of low-cost space . |
| 2 | Dating from around 1903 it had clearly been well played with as it was scratched and chipped and lacked a front wheel . |
| 3 | Until she was thirteen she had never been outside the Grange garden alone . |
| 4 | On Feb. 20 , 1990 , the Istanbul State Security Court acquitted three of the 10 who had subsequently been charged with being officials of the UTCP . |
| 5 | On 30 April 1991 , the applicant , the chairman and managing director of a company , was charged that between 1 January 1985 and 29 April 1991 he had knowingly been a party to the carrying on of the business of the company with intent to defraud its creditors , contrary to section 458 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 6 | By the age of thirteen he had twice been shipwrecked and had survived two epidemics of yellow fever , a hurricane , and two serious illnesses . |
| 7 | Until 1975 there had never been formal , regular board meetings , merely ad hoc occasions when , for example , they needed to fire someone . |
| 8 | Even at sixteen there had always been some marvellous " he " in her life . |
| 9 | Between 1974 and 1986 there had also been two tiers in Greater London and the six metropolitan counties in England , but this position was changed from 1 April 1986 , when the upper-tier authorities were abolished . |
| 10 | Peter married a woman with two sons , aged non and 12. he had always been impressed by the boys ' good behaviour and had n't realised it was because their mother hits them whenever they do the slightest thing wrong . |
| 11 | From 1971 to 1977 he had also been " Head of Wasdale " , a former one-roomed schoolhouse in the Lake District which he had transformed into the School 's Outdoor Pursuits Centre , guided by seven years ' experience on the Corsica trips between 1966 and 1972 . |
| 12 | A century later John Murray , the British ambassador in Constantinople , bitterly regretted that in 1774 he had not been able to act as mediator in the making of the Russo-Turkish peace of Kutchuk — Kainardji and thus gain the valuable presents from both sides which would have been his reward . |
| 13 | I have returned from the toughest trial that I have ever seen I he had already been wounded , for the third time , near Douaumont on February 25th ] — four days and four nights — ninety-six hours — the last two days soaked in icy mud — under terrible bombardment , without any shelter other than the narrowness of the trench , which even seemed to be too wide ; not a hole , not a dugout , nothing , nothing . |
| 14 | A former patient ( one who had never been regressed or even thought about the subject ) told me of a strange incident in her own family . |
| 15 | In Hancock [ 1990 ] 2 QB 242 it had not been decided whether coins were treasure trove or not . |
| 16 | Only the 107 who had already been to courses were asked this question and the replies are shown in Table 24 . |
| 17 | Prior to 1730 there had indeed been a discernible participation by labouring people in public discourse , and , more specifically , a participation in literature . |
| 18 | Despite this virtual unanimity of opinion 104 it had long been accepted that there were certain exceptions to the rule . |
| 19 | This replaced section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 which had long been the main public order offence and which had been used in a wide range of situations including demonstrations , football hooliganism , " streaking " and industrial disputes . |
| 20 | The rest of the J type cars joined the four which had already been withdrawn , at Brixton Hill depôt , where they were scrapped , but the lower saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 21 | Even in the early 1960s there had only been a few brave individuals . |