Example sentences of "life had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to that time their lives had been appallingly difficult , given the savage treatment their fellow-Poles meted out to them . |
| 2 | By the time it came out , in any case , all their lives had been irrevocably altered by the progress of world events . |
| 3 | The officers said innocent men 's lives had been put at risk and their families had been forced to move house because identities had been disclosed . |
| 4 | There was , however , an insidious corollary to the belief that God might intervene to save His chosen people and prolong the lives of deserving individuals ; it was that where He did not intervene to save life , those who lost their lives had been found unworthy . |
| 5 | Their lives had been a circular journey : no less than nine of them had spent their schooldays there . |
| 6 | Their lives had been so impoverished that even those elementary things had been taken from them . |
| 7 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 8 | No matter what Joe 's and Tamar 's earlier lives had been , both were respectably married now and their father had accepted them back into the fold . |
| 9 | Anger began to grow , fuelled by the possibility that because certain extremists seemed to go out of their way to look for signs of Satan in every aspect of everyday life , people living quiet , caring family lives had been put into a state of terror and agony . |
| 10 | Sir Hugh told the BBC Northern Ireland Inside Ulster programme that lives had been saved and damage prevented by the huge haul of Semtex seized last week . |
| 11 | Sir Hugh said lives had been saved and damage prevented by the seizure of 77 lb of Semtex last week . |
| 12 | He would watch their puzzled , attentive faces while Nonni talked about clothes and the latest film she had seen , ‘ jollying them up a bit ’ , as she called it : she thought that because their lives had been man-less , they were therefore dull and sad . |
| 13 | He said hundreds of thousands of jobs and lives had been destroyed while the Premier had done nothing but watch it happen . |
| 14 | ‘ Their lives had been hell and they were all very frightened . ’ |
| 15 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |
| 16 | Many lives had been lost , Turkey continued active on the side of the Central Powers , and the passage from the Black Sea remained closed to Russia , leaving her still separated from , and unsupplied by , her allies . |
| 17 | It had been five years since the President had last presented the awards for gallantry and to voluntary workers , and in his opening remarks he reflected that in that time over 7,600 lives had been saved , 180 new boats built and lifeboat technology had advanced by leaps and bounds . |
| 18 | people 's lives had been put at risk ; |
| 19 | There was the binding of wounds and examining of bruises to be considered , and the saying of prayers and sewing-up in bedding of those whose lives had been forfeit and above all there was a great deal of talking to be one , for , as the Magistrate scientifically observed , nothing unusual can happen among human beings without generating an immense , compensating volume of chatter . |
| 20 | As far as anyone could make out none of the hostages whose lives had been threatened earlier in the year had actually been harmed , but the stream of communiqués from the groups had dried up . |
| 21 | Their lives had been plain and unadorned , and it was in such language that Grainne would address them . |
| 22 | Many lives had been lost because of Mills ’ treachery but the government was unwilling to do anything about it . |
| 23 | Many of the children , even if not born in Ireland , were of Irish parents who had left behind appalling deprivation in their homeland and whose lives had been one long struggle for survival . |
| 24 | It was as if their lives had been aimless , random as pinballs , but when they came inside her door , there was a chair especially for them and a mug chosen for their tea . |
| 25 | Even though 30,000 lives had been lost and massive amounts of matériel consumed on both sides , Madrid did not fall to the Nationalists . |
| 26 | In the century and a half prior to Gregory numerous saints ' Lives had been written , most notably those concerned with the Lérinian saints , Honoratus , Hilary of Arles and Caesarius , as well as those devoted to Germanus of Auxerre , the Jura Fathers , and Genovefa , the virgin saint of Paris . |
| 27 | Or were you more concerned with giving the impression that your lives had been spotless , untarnished ? |
| 28 | They said their lives had been ruined , but Mr Lanaghan says it 's his family who 've really suffered |
| 29 | Her three children , her 15 grandchildren , her 23 great-grandchildren ( as well as many in-laws ) had all come , several from abroad , to honour a remarkable personality whose influence on our lives had been palpable and enduring . |
| 30 | Judge David told them , their lives had been devoted to the relief of pain and suffering but in this case they chose to inflict considerable pain on a young woman in their care , isolated by their way of life . |