Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [noun] [coord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Testament kings had been warriors and conquerors , smiting their enemies , but they had also been vehicles through whom the law of God was interpreted and enforced . |
| 2 | Its chief exports had been sponges and merchant seamen , and those brought in nothing in wartime . |
| 3 | Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art , and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur . |
| 4 | One knew exactly where there had been difficulties and compromises behind the scenes . |
| 5 | ( According to official figures , the surplus for 1988 and 1989 ( estimated ) , had been $941,000,000 and $241,000,000 respectively . ) |
| 6 | They were twisted and butchered and maimed and it was difficult to see if they had been Oaks or Beeches or Elms or what . |
| 7 | Up to now all had been surmise and suspicion . |
| 8 | Only the older ones , the ones whose husbands had been engineers and farmers and management consultants first , agreed with her . |
| 9 | Their mothers and sisters looked upon them in a new way , because until now they had been sons and brothers , but were from that day to be turned into men by the strictest mistress of all . |
| 10 | Other relations had been bishops and aldermen , ‘ barristers-at-law ’ , but my father was most proud of an uncle who had invented Aero , a kind of chocolate with bubbles of air in it ( by accident , as it happened ) . |
| 11 | 114 ) ; when a member of the court was a shareholder of the brewery company which owned the premises in question : R. V. Gee ( 1901 ) 17 T.L.R. 374 ; when three of the members of a compensation tribunal which refused the renewal of a licence had , along with their fellow justices , instructed a solicitor to oppose the renewal before the tribunal : Frome United Breweries v. Bath JJ. [ 1926 ] A.C. 586 ; when three members of the committee which granted and confirmed a licence had been shareholders and directors of the company on whose behalf the licence was applied for , although they resigned as directors and sold their shares before taking part in the proceedings : R. v. Hain ( 1896 ) 12 T.L.R. 323 . |
| 12 | He had been therapist and client both , had asked the questions and supplied the answers , aiming at total frankness , keeping nothing back , expressing to those bare walls , that metal table and black-leather swivel chair , that window with its half-drawn , dark-blue blind , the crawling distastes and shames , the self-disgust , the shrinking from light and the fear which seemed sometimes to beat with frenzied wings against bars in his brain . |
| 13 | The smoke had been west and north when they had looked from the Ridgery . |
| 14 | But it had been Elisabeth and Daniel themselves who , in 1939 , elected to spend the whole summer alone on Møn , rather than accompany their parents to South America . |
| 15 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 16 | A statement released this morning confirmed there had been contact but details are yet to emerge . |
| 17 | Breakfast had been fruit and coffee ; she 'd firmly resisted the croissants with butter and apricot jam . |
| 18 | They had been father and daughter , and sworn enemies , for a long time now ; they understood each other too well for comfort . |
| 19 | The last couple of times Yanto had seen him before joining the army , it had been touch and go . |
| 20 | It had been touch and go whether she would get herself anywhere near , let alone actually on , the bench . |
| 21 | But whether she had been right or wrong , Hugo had been allowed off the hook . |
| 22 | The prosecution say the robber was disguised by a crash helmet , it had been Bryant or Cunnliffe and the other had driven the getaway car . |
| 23 | Master Eustace , consecrated Bishop of Ely in 1198 , had been Vice-Chancellor and Keeper of the King 's Seal since 1194 . |
| 24 | There had been research and review carried out by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and by International Movements Towards Educational Change ( IMTEC ) . |
| 25 | I had put on a show of contrition all day , and behind it had been incomprehension and fright . |
| 26 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 27 | [ See Fig. 3 ] Where once the smooth cone of Vesuvius had risen , only a shattered stump now remained ; where once there had been fields and vineyards and all the normal clutter of the countryside there now stretched a silent grey carpet of ash , mantling everything like a thick , dirty snowfall . |
| 28 | There had been restaurants and clothes-shops — but no florists . |
| 29 | All through the morning there had been detonations and gunfire . |
| 30 | Luis Carlos Croissier Batista , who had been Industry and Energy Minister in 1986-1988 , became head of the new Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores , the national stock market commission regulating the new stock markets . |