Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst peasant uprisings in the Civil War had been against German expeditions in search of food supplies . |
| 2 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 3 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 4 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 5 | Mr punch had been in high spirits , too , in the summer of 1856 , thinking that crinoline was a great joke . |
| 6 | In 1830 a monk living in Bentota , a village on the south-western coast , singled out George Turnour , an Englishman whose career had been in Kandyan districts , as an unusual arbitrator in that he understood Sinhala . |
| 7 | Its first political use had been by extreme conservatives against Bismarck ; during his struggle against the socialists antisemitism spread to all parties on the Right . |
| 8 | ZETA had been behind closed doors in Hangar 7 , a huge aircraft hangar , 100 m long , which is now converted into a lab . |
| 9 | When the incident had been over several minutes , Robert appeared , flustered because Lionel was not yet ready . |
| 10 | The first observation I was able to make when the books were gathered together was that , although almost all the press coverage had been about public libraries , since they were the focus of political controversy , only c . |
| 11 | The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time . |
| 12 | The home affairs ministry had been against American requests to relax the law that protects small shopkeepers by making it hard for supermarkets and department stores ( big importers all ) to open branches in their neighbourhoods . |
| 13 | About half the planting under the scheme had been of broadleaved trees or native pinewoods . |
| 14 | Although reveille had been at 0400 hours , the landing would not be made until first light at 0850 . |
| 15 | 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 . |