Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 2 | She 'd never been comfortable trading sallies with men . |
| 3 | I had lost the excitement of the first Ramble to the Trossachs which had all been new territory . |
| 4 | Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun . |
| 5 | Eels , speared through their gills on an eel stick , had long been standard rent in the Fens and Somerset Levels . |
| 6 | His design of mill may have been original , but others had long been growing rape-seed in East Anglia and milling rape-seed around London . |
| 7 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 8 | Nagy had already been prime minister from 1953 to 1955 but had fallen from favour and Rákosi returned to power . |
| 9 | If the scheme had not been available Renshaw says that she would have considered giving up work , which would have been difficult , or considered some other form of childcare , but it was never really necessary to consider the alternatives because of the availability of the career break scheme . |
| 10 | Even at Cambridge this had not been plain sailing , as the remarks attributed to Christopher Kicks make clear : |
| 11 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 12 | The three opponents still refusing to sign on the grounds that there had not been adequate consultation , and two more being absent , the Mayor rode off on his horse and collected a signature from one of the absentees . |
| 13 | Once there had just been Trocchi drawing on the group 's ideas , there had been the sTigma exhibition in Better Books in 1965 , the obituary of Andrée Breton — one of the group 's intellectual roots — by Jean-Jacques Lebel in the first It fourteen months earlier . |
| 14 | She noticed that his hair had scissor marks in it , as if it had just been dry cut . |
| 15 | This had normally been sufficient pretext for direct military intervention , and some action of this kind appears to have been under consideration in December 1980 and again in March 1981 . |
| 16 | There had always been bad blood between Robert and Edward Bruce ; now this was transmitted to the next generation apparently . |
| 17 | The applicants in the main proceedings observed in limine that ( a ) 36 of their 95 fishing vessels were part of the United Kingdom fleet during the period 1973 to 1978 ( the reference period for the allocation of the quotas which were introduced in January 1983 ) ; ( b ) 85 of those 95 vessels were registered and in use as British fishing vessels by January 1983 , and ( c ) of those 85 vessels , 42 had always been British flag vessels and 43 were ex-Spanish flag boats which had transferred to the British flag before 1983 . |
| 18 | Her husband — she had still been married then-told her not to look . |
| 19 | It was dominated by a huge television in one corner and she pointed me towards an armchair , covered in worn corduroy , which had once been dark red . |
| 20 | An inquiry into that case showed that the head 's activities had probably been common knowledge among the staff for years . |
| 21 | There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income . |
| 22 | There had also been personal prejudice against the three men who would have been on trial . |
| 23 | A Welsh Anti-Nuclear Alliance had also been busy campaigning since 1980 , particularly over plans to expand the two nuclear power station sites at Trawsfynydd and Wylfa in North Wales . |
| 24 | Cissie had also been entertaining secret hopes that Beth just might change her mind about sending her to work at the flower shop . |
| 25 | They had n't been able to– tell her whether he would automatically sense any new presences in his Dream , and lateral thinking was the Dreamer 's occupational disease . |
| 26 | Two senior ND members , Tzannis Tzannetakis ( who had briefly been Prime Minister in 1989 ) and Athanassios Kanellopoulos , were appointed Deputy Prime Ministers . |
| 27 | Shapour Bakhtiar , 76 , who had briefly been Prime Minister in 1979 ( Jan. 3-Feb. 5 — see pp. 29740-44 ) in the last days of the Shah 's regime , was murdered at his home in a Paris suburb on Aug. 6 ; French police only discovered his body on Aug. 8 , together with the body of an aide apparently also killed in the attack . |
| 28 | There were nine women in the 19-member cabinet appointed by Brundtland , who had previously been Prime Minister in 1981 and in 1986-89 [ see pp. 30748 ; 31246-47 ; 34502-03 ; 36984-85 ] . |
| 29 | Azzedine Laraki , who had been Prime Minister since 1986 , was replaced by Karim Lamrani , 72 , an economist with a background in business who had previously been Prime Minister in 1971 and 1983 . |
| 30 | Paul had previously been vice president , domestic sales at the former Mips Computer Systems Inc . |