Example sentences of "[vb past] be [noun] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A GROUP of Japanese customers were given the red carpet treatment when they visited 's Buckie maltings in March . |
| 2 | The last time there was a serious battle for the post was 1951 , when Mr W S Morrison , Conservative MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury , was elected , defeating Major J Milner , Labour MP for Leeds South East , who had been deputy Speaker in the previous Parliament . |
| 3 | Tork had been Station Officer in Tel Aviv for eleven years . |
| 4 | A Moslem from West Nile province , Ali had been Finance Minister in the Idi Amin regime but went into exile before Amin 's overthrow , joining the Museveni government as Tourism and Wildlife Minister in 1986 . |
| 5 | There had been car break-ins in the area but there was nothing to connect Wolfenden with them . |
| 6 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 7 | It had been headline news in the press for almost two weeks and had produced a paid television programme to put its point of view across . |
| 8 | There had been Sproggs living in the cottage for four generations , and the small triangle of green in front of the gate had been Sprogg 's Green for almost as long . |
| 9 | One of the first to make the case had been Tom Paine in Rights of Man ( 1791–2 ) : |