Example sentences of "had been [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good d Good does in fact do what you said and his recommendation er for final salary schemes is er a third of the trustees should be or have the right to be er from the , the members and er er we 've in our er comments to you have er looked at a global point of view and said no not are these proposals worthy in themselves , but using a different criteria that if they had been law as Ken said earlier , would they have stopped Maxwell and a situation where a third of the trustees were er were they members er would have made no difference er cos typically in our cases there were originally about four trustees er and unfortunately for us , three of them were named Maxwell . |
| 2 | The art awards , he continued , were in keeping with the best traditions of the P&O SN Co , which had been part if the maritime history and development of Australia since 1852 . |
| 3 | Erm I know there had been occasion when we had people sleeping on the the stairway and you know , I think occasionally and but I think sometimes that was maybe somebody got home from a blues party , and had too much to drink or something , and they came into the warm , the heat w from the the downstairs flat , er k comes up on the stairwell , and I know there was someone sleeping there . |
| 4 | There had been anger as well at the cruel jest of fate that had brought her into love with her own brother . |
| 5 | Tabai , who had been President since independence , was constitutionally prohibited for serving a further term in office . |
| 6 | Tabai , who had been President since independence , was constitutionally prohibited for serving a further term in office . |