Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 2 | Perhaps the swank had been right in that one respect when he jeered at Biff 's diligent efforts in the Scriptory … |
| 3 | Emilia Frere had been right after all . |
| 4 | Falcone had been one of those responsible for bringing to trial 473 members of the Mafia in December 1987 [ see p. 35990 ] . |
| 5 | Frankie had been one of those unfortunates . |
| 6 | What stories he had beaten the great Stanford Roberts on , or even whether Stanford Roberts had been great after all ? |
| 7 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 8 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 9 | Elise 's parents had been involved in that accident , too , and it was only after the two cousins lost their families that they became so close . |
| 10 | Nordhausen had been one of these places . |
| 11 | Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn . |
| 12 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 13 | Just as fate had been unkind in many ways to those Titfords who had stayed in Frome throughout the 18th century , so it had been a firm friend to the descendants of William the Emigrant after his arrival in Kent . |
| 14 | If it released the figures before it would be obvious to everyone that Mr Hyams ' management philosophy had been superior to that of MEPC 's . |
| 15 | It was again noted that he did not deny the wider allegation that other members of the Reagan election campaign had been involved in such a deal . |
| 16 | They have been accused of sledging in the World Cup — as if no team had been guilty of that before . |
| 17 | Party contributions had been compulsory for all citizens prior to the RPT 's dissolution . |
| 18 | As noted in an earlier chapter , the Irish republican population had been hyper-sensitive about that body of men with its ruthless reputation . |
| 19 | At Vladimir , Holly had been different from these men . |
| 20 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 21 | He claimed that the military significance of Porkkala for the USSR had been similar to that of Guantanamo for the United States . |
| 22 | Arthur had been all of those things himself : hunter , warrior , then king . ’ |
| 23 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 24 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 25 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 26 | Before the arrival of the Romans , the native Britons had been skilled at many kinds of crafts . |
| 27 | Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes . |
| 28 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 29 | Political pressure on Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa increased in February , with fresh allegations that senior government figures had been involved in several cases of corruption . |
| 30 | The Brockwells had been present for all the evidence at the Palais de Justice in Paris . |