Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These had been the last words that had passed between them . |
| 32 | Thelma and Louise were both upset but I shed no tears over what we all knew was a happy event … |
| 33 | But then they had a habit of melting into society , and in the meantime many had been the expensive guests of the German taxpayer . |
| 34 | However , on Oct. 6 following talks on the same day with Sirimavo Bandaranaike , the leader of the opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) , President Ranasinghe Premadasa agreed to consider the formation of an interim all-party administration and the holding of a referendum on the country 's executive presidential system ; the latter had been a major demand of the SLFP , which opposed the concept of the executive presidency . |
| 35 | In some ways those had been the best days , if she was honest with herself . |
| 36 | That had been a futile crusade , he knew now , but it was better than the lie Seth offered , the lie that concealed the end of all things . |
| 37 | That had been a long meeting . |
| 38 | That had been a long , long time ago and we were still reeling through the London streets with never a sign of a park anywhere . |
| 39 | That had been a long time ago . |
| 40 | But that had been a long time ago . |
| 41 | That had been a great adventure , but it was nothing to his travels . |
| 42 | That had been a great and memorable moment ; that was when they knew he was a man of substance . |
| 43 | That had been a great evening . |
| 44 | If that had been a true man he 'd have drunk it again afterwards ! |
| 45 | Think of the outcry if that had been a nuclear accident . ’ |
| 46 | That had been a pointed enough comment , by God ! |
| 47 | I 'd have had that if that had been a different colour , but it 's cos it 's brown it 's no good in our kitchen . |
| 48 | Despite the odds against her , she would have persevered if that had been the only hope of tracing her sister . |
| 49 | Although in theory we do not know how it would have turned out if that had been the only option available to Mr. Thorpe , we know that the principles are clearly set out in the health service management documents and at a political level by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 50 | That had been the central claim of Tawney 's Secondary Education for All , made in 1922 and constantly reaffirmed since . |
| 51 | That had been the first news this night had brought the Duke — that Napoleon 's army had branched off the Brussels road to drive the Prussians eastwards away from the British . |
| 52 | That had been the first of many occasions when a baby in her care collapsed suddenly and surprisingly , said Mr Goldring . |
| 53 | If that had been the final outcome , question marks over the ability of sterling to maintain its value against the Deutschmark would have been raised and there would have been a prospect of a rise in interest rates to protect the pound . |
| 54 | That had been the wrong thing too . |
| 55 | That had been the wrong thing to say . |
| 56 | That had been an awful tea they 'd had at five o'clock ; two slices of bread and fat , a slab of hard cake and a bowl of milk ; then nothing else , only a drink of water , if they wanted one , before they came to bed , and it only half-past seven . |
| 57 | What both opposed was a vital popular culture , which had in the eighteenth century entered on a vigorous phase . |
| 58 | When they arrived in Milan , the two got off the train and , by coincidence , the first thing they both saw was a blown-up photograph of Penelope Tree . |