Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEVEN of the past 12 Masters Tournaments have been won by European players and this stopped being a big surprise three Ryder Cups ago . |
| 2 | The outcome of the Report and the following debate which this generated was a new ERDF Regulation which came into force on 1 January 1985 . |
| 3 | In fact , he was recruited to the discipline by what some insisted was the arsy-versy way . |
| 4 | The US ambassador , who had marvelled at the readiness of the British to hazard so much in company with France ( a nation which they were in the habit of disparaging ) , now saw that this had been no more than a passing flirtation . |
| 5 | This had been a central theme of Left propaganda , appealing to a movement which had always tended to think dichotomously . |
| 6 | This had been a cruel blow , but it would n't stop her from ensuring that justice was done . |
| 7 | Of the 23 disabled professionals who had been accepted for training as disabled people , eight reported that their entry qualifications were better than average , and five thought that this had been a major factor in their acceptance for training . |
| 8 | Once this had been a thriving town , prospering on fishing and tourism and the naval college . |
| 9 | Since the war , or at least since the post-war pattern settled into what looked like immobility round about 1950 , this had been a stony field to work in . |
| 10 | But I soon found that this had been a dubious choice . |
| 11 | Although Perot refused to endorse the candidacies of either Clinton or Bush , he conceded that the Democratic Party had done " a brilliant job " in reviving itself , and that this had been a key factor in his decision to withdraw . |
| 12 | This had been a great success in both countries not only for the deaf but for their hearing fellow citizens , who made " learning sign language " the second most popular study after English in adult education . |
| 13 | A BR spokeswoman said today : ‘ This had been a prolonged negotiation which has now been resolved . |
| 14 | Underlying this had been a deeper fear of more extreme socialists , especially the syndicalists , who might threaten violence and revolution . |
| 15 | ‘ If this had been a Serbian place you would have sent 500 troops here , I guarantee it , ’ Mr Delimustafic said . |
| 16 | " So what would you normally have done as soon as you arrived if this had been an ordinary Thursday ? |
| 17 | He was reflecting , perhaps , that this had been an easier job than the electrical wiring . |
| 18 | I wondered if this had been the right place to come at all . |
| 19 | With a lot of misgivings , I eventually withdrew — and within weeks , as new opportunities opened up , it was clear this had been the right decision for me . |
| 20 | It was certainly better than the sandwich and a can of beer that she 'd expected ; if this had been the late and unlamented Eddie she 'd probably have been faced with a walk to the nearest carry-out to find that he 'd finished off the beer in her absence . |
| 21 | I think this had been the former jockey 's house , for the Kirkwoods of Woodbrook survived into the middle of the twentieth century by breeding racehorses . |
| 22 | There was no way of being certain how long she 'd spent on the ward ; it might have been six weeks or six years , but she was guessing at six months because this had been the first commission review that she 'd received . |
| 23 | This had been the supreme ruler of the Althosian system . |
| 24 | In the UK and FRG an average of 9 per cent of company employees worked in R&D and this had been the traditional level in the industry for several years . |
| 25 | This had been the whole crux of Myra 's long-term problem . |
| 26 | It is as if this had been the artificial carapace which had now dissolved and there emerged the smiling , bright-eyed figure of Eliot , with an expression close to that of the photographs taken of him in childhood . |
| 27 | Then , in a remarkable display of vacillation , he proceeded to pour cold water on Knobelsdorf 's assertion that ‘ the fate of the French Army will be decided at Verdun ’ though this had been the very foundation of his own Memorandum of less than four months earlier . |
| 28 | This had been the basic premise of a proposal made in late August by the Netherlands ( holder of the presidency of the Council of Ministers in the second half of 1991 ) specifying four conditions for economic convergence : ( i ) a high degree of price stability , indicated by a level of inflation close to that of the best-performing state for a two-year period ; ( ii ) a sustainable government financial position , indicated by budget deficits deemed not to be excessive ; ( iii ) currency within the 2.5 per cent fluctuation margins of the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European Monetary System for at least two years without devaluation against other member state 's currency ; and ( iv ) a close approximation of comparable interest rates to those member states with the best performance in terms of price stability . |
| 29 | That 'd been the big question . |
| 30 | Chief amongst these had been the inescapable fact that she must get rid of Rose Cottage . |