Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 2 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 3 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 4 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 5 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 6 | Two-thirds were in less-developed countries , whereas five years previously about half the world 's known HIV infections had been in developed countries ( mostly in the USA ) . |
| 7 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 8 | The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel . |
| 9 | Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs . |
| 10 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 11 | In time the Pomeranian Poles would have undoubtedly been absorbed into the German-language community as their forbears had been in previous centuries . |
| 12 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 13 | Ballistics experts proved the pellets had been from two air rifles found in Dines ' car . |
| 14 | Air travel grew rapidly : the first Pan Am passenger flight was on 18 January 1928 , although the first commercial passenger flights had been in German Zeppelins before the First World War , and French and British airlines had begun by the early 1920s . |
| 15 | The men had been in unknown country , chasing the boar uphill , when the rule is to chase downhill only . |
| 16 | Mr Mark Davies , NUM branch secretary , said the trapped men had been in high spirits throughout their ordeal , singing and joking and , at times , trying to move rubble themselves . |
| 17 | Almost all of these men had been in psychiatric hospitals at some time in their lives , especially the younger ones . |
| 18 | Their increase in money wages had been from 21s 9d to 36s ( £1.08 — £1.80 ) , an increase of 66 per cent . |
| 19 | In the early stages many of the children had been in residential care for periods of years , had little or no contact with members of the natural family and had lost all serious hope of returning there . |
| 20 | The winding-sheet with its top- and bottom-knots had been in steady decline during the last quarter of the seventeenth century , its place being taken by the open-backed long-sleeved shift with draw-strings at wrist and neck , either with or without an integral hood . |
| 21 | Talabani , in Ankara on Oct. 26-28 for talks with Demirel and with European and United States representatives protested that both operations had been against civilian areas . |
| 22 | Employees of the publicly owned public transport company EAS had been on indefinite strike since July 23 and the army had been running a reduced transport service in the capital . |
| 23 | Of the twenty non-royal knights who processed into the chapel , all except for the two former Labour prime ministers had been at public schools . |
| 24 | To visit their former homes and lands had been like touching history . |
| 25 | But , of the 600 men arrested after the failure of the latest rising , only six others had been in similar trouble before . |
| 26 | The detainees had been among 115 signatories of an open letter to Siyad Barre which called for a negotiated end to civil war , respect for human and civil rights , and multiparty elections . |