Example sentences of "been [noun] ['s] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 2 | I do n't know how I turned invisible — it must have been Fincara 's spell going wrong . |
| 3 | It seems to have been Moscow 's need to counter a challenge from Beijing which prompted the next Soviet commitment to Cuba . |
| 4 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 5 | PFR Station Manager , Mr Ed Adam said : ‘ It has always been AEA 's intention to bring PFR back to power as soon as possible . |
| 6 | Most marked has been Sun 's reluctance to concede any ground to OSF 's Motif interface , even though many Sun users clearly prefer that graphical environment over Sun 's Open Look GUI . |
| 7 | Harty had been admitted to St James 's with acute liver failure and hepatitis B infection , and it had been Giles 's job to find a donor . |
| 8 | Yet he had been Brearley 's choice to succeed him , for he had perceived that Botham was an intelligent , tactically aware player and believed that he offered ‘ tremendous hope for a new , vital start ’ . |
| 9 | It was strange to see Yek surrendering , but it had been Sipotai 's mistake to involve troops in a private feud . |
| 10 | ‘ It had been Carole 's dream to come and work with us , but sadly that dream was smashed . ’ |
| 11 | Too late , those who should have been Frederick 's allies realised their mistake in letting him be crushed . |
| 12 | It seems to have been Charles ' policy to broaden the education and leadership of his sons , and at the same time not to allow them to become too entrenched in their own subkingdoms . |
| 13 | It has always been Whitbread 's aim to try and promote from within . |
| 14 | Although the Criterion was the first English periodical to print the work of Cocteau , Valery and Proust , it seems always to have been Eliot 's fate to espouse causes just at the point when they are about to disappear or to disintegrate . |
| 15 | It has always been ACET 's policy to work with and complement statutory and other voluntary organizations . |