Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he was able to forecast accurately which women would develop the disease merely by knowing which midwife had been in attendance . |
| 2 | Formal approval of detailed proposals , on which negotiations had been in progress for five months , was expected at the end of February . |
| 3 | The effect in Britain was a polarising into allies and enemies of the tribes with which Rome had been in contact . |
| 4 | Cicero , whose stamina had been in doubt , could not keep his place and dropped away , but Bachelor 's Button and Pretty Polly — the mare on the stands side , her rival on the far side — were closing rapidly on the leader . |
| 5 | For every Palestinian who expressed doubts about the worth of returning , there were hundreds who would go back to what is now Israel if they had the opportunity to do so , people like David Damiani , a Christian whose family had been in Palestine since the time of the Crusades . |
| 6 | The making of a claim was a privilege rather than a right , and claimants would therefore be expected to heed whatever rules had been in force . |