Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Street in the Gallowgate and the Calton had become a parking place for horses , hansom cabs , buses that could well have been the ‘ taxis of Waterloo' if Napoleon had been on our side , broughams with the seats held together by faith and carpet tacks , open coaches decorated with scraps of cloth and coloured paper , growling , fuming motor-cars … the invasion of the East End of Glasgow was total . |
| 2 | The first Napoleon had been a patron of men of science , perhaps hoping that finance and political economy might be thus ‘ removed from the sphere of party ’ ; and men like Berthollet , Laplace , Cuvier , Gay-Lussac , Arago , Dumas and Berthelot played prominent parts in , or received titles from , governments of different colours during the century . |
| 3 | History might have been different if Cleopatra 's nose had been longer or Napoleon had been taller . |
| 4 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 5 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 6 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 7 | Singh had been under intense political pressure to reduce the increase in fertilizer prices . |
| 8 | In disturbances preceding the takeover , the former Prime Minister V. P. Singh had been briefly arrested near Ayodhya on Oct. 29 after protesting against moves to build a Hindu temple on the site . |
| 9 | Once again , Allah had been generous . ’ |
| 10 | Although Northamptonshire had been a stronghold of Puritan sentiment during the Civil War , following the Restoration most of the county adhered to the episcopal church . |
| 11 | Roz Hatch had been a real looker in her time , and the family portrait said one thing to Cowley above all else : we stick together . |
| 12 | In 1990 Johnston and Hatch had been a most feared combination but now the former has returned to his old stamping ground at Bishop Auckland for one final fling before retiring . |
| 13 | On Nov. 15 Wijeratne announced that Mannar had been " cleared of terrorists " and that 500 Moslem homeguards were being trained by the security forces to protect Moslem villages . |
| 14 | Khmara had been arrested inside the Supreme Soviet on Nov. 17 , 1990 , as a result of an incident during the October Revolution holiday on Nov. 7 when he and his co-defendants had been involved in a scuffle with an undercover KGB ( State Security ) officer in a pedestrian subway in Kiev . |
| 15 | But so his father 's Master of the Inner Palace , Wang Ta Chuan had been . |
| 16 | Chuan had been under considerable pressure to appoint the Democrat Party secretary-general , Maj.-Gen. |
| 17 | Her steely determination , however , had worked , and that very weekend Earl Spencer had been released from hospital and moved into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel , until he was strong enough to be moved home to Northamptonshire . |
| 18 | While at Bradford in 1911 , Mr. Spencer had been a pioneer with trolleybus development and with his permission , the Associated Equipment Company ( another UndergrounD Group subsidiary ) , demonstrated a single deck trolleybus of quite modern appearance for the time , somewhere on the South Metropolitan system during 1922 , presumably with one trolley on the wire and towing a ball and chain . |
| 19 | Spencer had been spoiled , treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger . |
| 20 | Stanley Spencer had been through the war ; he had experienced the horror , the vulgarity , of war . |
| 21 | Darwin and Spencer had been wrong to argue that women were in a state of arrested development . |
| 22 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 23 | None was as close as Ewan had been , but they did their best , bringing him the gossip , chattering , urging him to rise , to dress , to come out , come down and eat his dinner with the other folk . |
| 24 | Mr Milmo said that it was ‘ utterly and completely false ’ to suggest that Mr Clay had been influenced by the prospect of some plum job when he retired . |
| 25 | Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time . |
| 26 | Edgar and Isabella Linton had been invited to lunch , and their mother had agreed , on condition that her darlings were kept carefully apart from ‘ that wicked boy ’ . |
| 27 | And again she found herself thinking that maybe Jeff had been right and Guido was simply an insufferable bully , the type of man it would be all too easy to fall out with . |
| 28 | Corbett had been accompanied north by four messengers — chosen by the Chancellor from his own household . |
| 29 | Corbett had been snooping there and seized a juicy morsel , first visiting his old friend at St Bartholomew 's and then the poisoner in Faltour 's Lane . |
| 30 | If only Corbett had been elsewhere . |