Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Party contributions had been compulsory for all citizens prior to the RPT 's dissolution . |
| 4 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 5 | Before the arrival of the Romans , the native Britons had been skilled at many kinds of crafts . |
| 6 | Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Fourth cousins by marriage , the girls had been aware of each other for much longer and had a number of friends in common . |
| 9 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 10 | A typical Capricorn characteristic , if Debbie 's notes had been accurate in any way at all ! |
| 11 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 12 | All three of the speakers presenting papers had been involved in this review and discussed different aspects in their contributions . |