Example sentences of "[noun sg] had been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Both his father and his grandfather had been directors of the East India Company . |
| 32 | ‘ When Constanza got there she was told that her mother had made a mistake with her sleeping pills , her maid had been witness to that . |
| 33 | During 1981 the Prince had been patron of the International Year of Disabled People , and met yet another vast group of people who suffered enormous hardship and prejudice , and whom society did not seem to care about . |
| 34 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |
| 35 | Everything he had done that had seemed at all kind had been part of a plan to make her face her past for his mother 's sake . |
| 36 | Apparently , an old oak chest had been part of the family 's possessions for generations and bore an inscription inside the lid which said in effect , ‘ Whoever removes this chest from Appleby Hall , ill luck will befall them . ’ |
| 37 | Accounts published during the bankruptcy proceedings in 1935 suggested that the subscription income had been £6,848 in 1925 , £604 in 1928 and afterwards less than £400 a year . |
| 38 | The underlying attitude in Whitehall and Washington was not so different from that of Deng Xiaoping : the events of last year had been part of an essentially inscrutable and probably cyclical process which was peculiar to the Chinese . |
| 39 | Whereas the role of the astronomer within the Ptolemaic tradition had been custodian of mathematical , predictive devices , Copernicus transformed that role by importing physical arguments into the astronomer 's domain , thereby raising questions about the real motion of the earth . |
| 40 | Rowland used The Observer to fight non-media battles , notably over control of the Harrods store , which at one time had been part of the House of Fraser group . |
| 41 | The desire to reduce densities in the conurbation had been part of the background to planning since the 1930s and was reemphasized in Northumberland 's current development plans for the North Tyneside area ( corresponding broadly with what is called Northern Tyne side in this book ) . |
| 42 | The gun had been handbuilt by Holland & Holland of London , perfectly balanced and beautifully engraved . |
| 43 | The case aroused public disquiet as demonstrating that Evans 's conviction and execution had been miscarriages of justice ; there were two inquiries , and after the second Evans was granted a posthumous free pardon . |
| 44 | In his autobiography he claimed that the family had been farmers at Long Eaton , Derbyshire , since the eighteenth century . |
| 45 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 46 | , Thomas ( d. c. 1276 ) , revolutionary mayor of London 1263–5 , was a draper with considerable property in the city , whose family had been part of its aldermanic ruling class since at least the 1220s . |
| 47 | The Churchward family had been squires of Stoke Gabriel from the end of the fifteenth century . |
| 48 | His family had been landowners in Wales and Shropshire . |
| 49 | The weather had been kind for Boz 's wedding but it was less so for Tom and Dolly . |
| 50 | Down whose son had been bestman at his wedding . |