Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [noun sg] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The areas in which slavery or serfdom had been of marginal importance or genuinely ‘ uneconomic ’ — e.g. northern and southern Russia or the border states and the south-west in the United States — adjusted readily to its liquidation . |
| 2 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 3 | Both Father and Mother had been through difficult times financially in their twenties but Father had founded a fine family business in London which flourished and while both of them were wise and sensible about money there was never any lack of it and funds were available for anything that would widen our horizons and education . |
| 4 | John Morton was the Darvel blacksmith , as his father and grandfather had been before him . |
| 5 | As my companion informed me , he had held many important posts in Geneva , and was a counsellor , as his father and grandfather had been before him . |
| 6 | Although comparisons of fixed doses of drugs have limitations , the doses of propranolol and nifedipine used were in the middle of their therapeutic ranges . |
| 7 | Nizan was convinced that the novel in the contemporary period was as significant a genre as tragedy had been in the classical period . " |
| 8 | Probably his mother and father her mother and father had been in there anyway . |