Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So presumably either Pickerage was lying about his date with Hilary Frome , or the pair had been up to something the whole of Sunday . |
| 2 | There is nothing to show how long the game or the Society had been in abeyance before the meeting but in the same record a minute implies that the Society had been formed in 1483 . |
| 3 | The wine , I mean ; the vineyard and vintage , um … whether it was south slope or the soil had been especially acidic that year . " |
| 4 | Either the settlement was abandoned now , or the huts had been allowed to deteriorate during the winter . |
| 5 | Or the picture had been transformed , temporarily , into a mirror . |
| 6 | A political gamble was taken too : that if hostages were released , Americans would not greatly mind what the price or the means had been . |
| 7 | It would appear that either the values had been substituted by the supplier ( without warning ) or the capacitors had been mistaken for components having an identical capacitance value but with a much reduced voltage rating . |
| 8 | Specifically , neither the King nor the court had been informed . |
| 9 | What neither German radio nor the public knew was that the Duke of Buccleuch was placed under house arrest on his estates in Scotland , several aristocrats were personally warned by Churchill that if they talked of peace they would be jailed , and Lord Londonderry was questioned inconclusively about a meeting that was alleged to have taken place on his Mountstewart estate in Northern Ireland with four German agents who had travelled up through the Free State . |
| 10 | Neither the bathroom nor the kitchen had been cleaned recently . |
| 11 | Diplomatic relations between Czechoslovakia and the Vatican had been restored on April 19 , having been broken off in 1950 . |
| 12 | All the Beaufort and the VWH had been penalized for skinny-dipping . |
| 13 | The wine belonged to Herr A. Einhorn and the bottles had been dressed with forged Jockey Club labels . |
| 14 | When the meal was over and the tables had been cleared of everything except the wine and the cups , one of the Altun stood up . |
| 15 | And their conclusion is , he could n't stand up to , to Lloyd George in and the reason was these were strong , erm , male leaders , and Wilson , when it came to being with men , er , was weak , and the question asked is , why was he weak in dealing with men ? |
| 16 | Since the development of schemes was left to local initiative and was dependent upon the co-operation of the local magistrates ' court , national coverage was patchy and the services offered were variable . |
| 17 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 18 | By the time I arrived at B.P. there was need for many more of those whom Peter Calvocoressi calls the Indians , and the net had been cast wider to trawl the less élite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 19 | The Mini was back in use and the Glory had been relegated to the garage until she ‘ had time to check it out with Mr Chan ’ . |
| 20 | Its inhabitants were predominantly the members of the Issaq clan , and the SNM had been formed there in May 1988 . |
| 21 | I had a little snigger ; it had to be fully ten minutes since the last stroke of eleven , and the thunder had been murmuring dark warnings ever since . |
| 22 | It had not been McAllister 's night from dead ball situations and the consequences had been widespread . |
| 23 | Great Victorians like Trollope and the Pre-Raphaelites had been fully aware of what was happening . |
| 24 | ‘ I read in my Harmsworth Magazine once that a man died because he ate rabbit pie and the rabbit had been eating belladonna . |
| 25 | They said he answered some of their questions sarcastically and spoke in Russian , even though he is bilingual and the questions had been put to him in Moldavian . |
| 26 | On Aug. 29 an amnesty was announced for all political prisoners , said by the authorities to number 66 ; of these 44 had been arrested after the inter-ethnic massacres of August 1988 , and the rest had been accused of a plot against the government in March 1989 . |
| 27 | The structure which was destroyed by the construction of the town wall contained a row of some ten rooms ; the walls were about 1 m ( 3¼ ft ) thick , and the structure had been roofed with limestone slates . |
| 28 | The US , faced by the revival of European and Japanese competition , by inflation and the costs of the Vietnam war , could no longer remain the foundation stone of a world currency system and the dollar had been ‘ floated ’ in August 1971 . |
| 29 | The physicians and the nurses had been given instruction in the principles of psychiatric evaluation and there were regular meetings with a psychiatrist and psychiatric social worker during the trial . |
| 30 | They were not wholly successful in this , and the compromise reached was termed ‘ two-trades response ’ . |