Example sentences of "[noun prp] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Kingsley been ill , the performance would have been cancelled . |
| 2 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 3 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 4 | So pleased had Irving been that , in congratulation , he had shaken her foot … |
| 5 | Michael Sandusky has argued that United States troops could have assumed control of the greater part of Korea had Korea been identified as a priority and had MacArthur been willing to modify his decision to concentrate American forces in Japan prior to the official surrender on 2 September at the ceremony planned by MacArthur . |
| 6 | Had Ross Brown been able to touch down on completion of his powerful break ( or Nick Penny been able to cleanly gather his pass ) off a Derrick Lee snipe after Scotland had levelled at 8-8 in the second half , then a steal might have materialised . |
| 7 | ‘ Has Richard been unfaithful to you ? ’ |
| 8 | This assumption is also implicit in the major 1964 oil and sugar agreement , the terms of which were such that ‘ Had Cuba been able to deliver in full its annual commitment of sugar to the USSR , this would in all probability have balanced the cost of Cuban imports from the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | For if Mrs Phipps been clever enough to manage her husband 's murder , then she was too bright to make such uninhibited admissions , even to a sympathetic vicar 's wife , other than in the knowledge that she 'd nothing to hide . |
| 10 | All of which , however , little solves the problem of why , Willis and Botham apart , and on their day Lewis and DeFreitas , have England been unable to produce a fraction of the talent that has flowed unabated , and appears still bottomless , from this tiny cluster of Caribbean islands ? |
| 11 | For had not Caswell been beautiful — his full , sensuous lips , whispering honeyed words . |
| 12 | Had Katherine been able to forget the fear her mother instilled in her , she would have wept out of homesickness . |
| 13 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 14 | Neither has Mr Kohl been ready to take a lead in giving more rights to the 1.8m Turks in Germany . |
| 15 | Had Anicia Juliana been alive at the time ( she died about 528 ) , she would not have been amused . |
| 16 | Had Weller been present , one suspects that he might have put Lydia Mordkovitch , violin soloist in the Mendelssohn concerto , over his knee . |
| 17 | Had umpire Roy Palmer been harsh in warning Aqib Javed for intimidatory bowling ? |
| 18 | ‘ How 's Jennifer been this week ? ’ |
| 19 | Had the option to continue at Hummersknott been available , I would probably have done so . |
| 20 | Mrs Cottrill , 56 , said : ’ We wonder whether the verdict would have been the same had Fiona been French . ’ |
| 21 | Had Araminta been right in that brief exchange she had overheard in the breakfast parlour ? |
| 22 | So I told the press the next morning who were mega grumpy at all of this and I do n't blame them , so when the ceremony started Pat took the stills photographer round to the front and the television guys as the Princess began to inspect er the crew pulled all their gear through the Band of the Royal Marines over their toe caps under the tubas and pressed their cameras under the nose of the Princess Royal which would n't have happened had the Lieutenant Commander been prepared to listen to us and of course you could see him getting angrier and angrier |
| 23 | How long had Mrs O'Neill been mad ? |
| 24 | Had Ross Brown been able to touch down on completion of his powerful break ( or Nick Penny been able to cleanly gather his pass ) off a Derrick Lee snipe after Scotland had levelled at 8-8 in the second half , then a steal might have materialised . |
| 25 | And is Janet , has Janet been able to go back to work yet ? |
| 26 | It might have been different had Charlotte been able to claim any success for her American trip . |