Example sentences of "[vb past] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 32 | It took something away from everyone , whether they 'd been IP in the past or not . |
| 33 | In this way Engels asserts the generality of the principles discussed , but also he explains the importance of what he believed were remains of gentile principles in the organization of Greece and Rome . |
| 34 | Michael Michael , to assist the panel , after we received 's paper on on on the erm coal workings in Selby we have act we faxed that over to British Coal for their comments . |
| 35 | The agency 's allegations have not been supported by other major conservation groups , although Buff Bohlen , a World Wide Fund for Nature official , said he was concerned over what he believed was money from business trading in illegally poached ivory going to support the secretariat 's work . |
| 36 | Both the Augustinians and Dominicans sought to combine the qualities of actives and contemplatives in their way of life and teaching ; they stressed the need for penance and man 's dependence on God 's grace for that illumination of understanding through faith and love that they believed was knowledge of God . |
| 37 | ‘ She admits following someone she believed was Dieter into the woods . ’ |
| 38 | The third aspect the third aspect that er noticed was movement of the feet whilst in this sort of a situation . |
| 39 | The ¥7.5m ( $55,000 ) that he received was peanuts alongside the sums that Recruit doled out to many of the ruling party 's bigger names . |
| 40 | On that day he had also invested two new abbots , both sons of important magnates , who as it happened were friends of Anselm . |
| 41 | On Aug. 20 , King Hassan of Morocco called on the UN to delay the referendum by four months ; Morocco was disputing the UN 's " consolidated list " of approximately 74,000 Sahrawis deemed entitled to vote , and was objecting to Manz 's rejection of a Moroccan list of some 120,000 people it claimed were refugees from the territory entitled to vote . |
| 42 | The UVF claimed responsibility for the shootings on Jan. 4 and Jan. 30 of Catholic civilians who it claimed were members of the IRA . |
| 43 | The universe sampled was adults aged 18 or over living in Great Britain ( i.e. excluding Northern Ireland ) at the time of the survey . |
| 44 | This is because the anthropology which they used and reinterpreted was part of a much wider work which went beyond and across any disciplinary boundaries . |
| 45 | While Baghdad was preoccupied with securing a cease-fire , dissident forces quickly took advantage of a relaxation of internal vigilance : both in the north where Kurdish Peshmerga resumed their earlier insurgency , and in the south where Shiite counterparts rose in revolt against the regime in Basrah and other centres , with what Baghdad claimed was encouragement from Iran . |
| 46 | The touching love letters they exchanged are testimony to that growing bond of affection . |
| 47 | Among recent conditions imposed were restrictions on drilling activity at a time when seabirds were moulting or mating . |
| 48 | There we discovered the £7.50 hamburger meal , flower-selling girls with Chanel handbags and wealthy exhibitionists who apparently enjoyed being part of a human zoo , preening themselves on their extravagant yachts while the hoi-polloi stared up from the quayside . |
| 49 | He enjoyed being part of a friendly , thriving company , but says the atmosphere changed when Mr Maxwell took over . |
| 50 | All these arguments assumed , throughout their long careers , that the settled practices they challenged were orthodoxies of common conviction , not ground rules of convention . |
| 51 | Hateley instantly exploited the error , rolling the ball back to Ian Ferguson and what followed was hell for defender Sergei Fokine . |
| 52 | The particular portfolio I saw had twenty-seven etchings many being straight-forward views of Ambleside and elsewhere but included were prints of ‘ Oak trees in Rydal Park ’ , of ‘ Yew tree in Patterdale churchyard ’ and ‘ Birch trees in Coom Gill ’ . |
| 53 | What I needed were points on the line which exist rather than those which are only theoretical . |
| 54 | This they decided was evidence for neutrons coming from the cell . |
| 55 | His general note was one of chiding MacDonald for the weakness of his control over his own extremists and suggesting that what the country needed was men of practical experience , breadth of view and lack of dogmatic commitment . |
| 56 | The biggest loss I recorded was 11oz in a 9lb 5oz bream which had been in a keepnet for nine hours . |
| 57 | This I did in what I thought were circumstances of great secrecy . |
| 58 | And when Trevino added the only top masters title he has won — the Dunhill Masters at Woburn in 1985 — the tears he shed were tears of joy . |
| 59 | The first words that I understood were words like ‘ fire ’ , and ‘ bread ’ . |
| 60 | Of course , Brian himself was a boss , if one counted being Head of Humanities in a poorly funded and now much-threatened Adult Education Institute as being a boss . |