Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 2 | The dwellings are heated by communal gas boilers , the fuel used being heat-metered into each flat — occupants have the option of reducing or suspending the flow of the low-pressure hot water central hearing — while a ‘ landlord 's meter ’ records the amount of heat used in common areas . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly . |
| 4 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 5 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 6 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 7 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 8 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 9 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 10 | It seemed as if they 'd been wrong about one thing and only too right about the other . |
| 11 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 12 | There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day . |
| 13 | But I 'd been interested in old houses long before that . ’ |
| 14 | More than three in four of the 828 adults interviewed were upset by dirty toilets at departure points while 74 per cent complained about lack of information when travel delays occurred . |
| 15 | There was still a general assumption that the self-confidence and savoir-faire they conferred were essential in any aspirant to one of the major embassies . |
| 16 | In a survey last year of farmers where poor chemical control was experienced , most of the 33 fields sampled were free from resistant strains . |
| 17 | Among those detained in January and February were reportedly some 50 imams whose sermons the new authorities claimed were prejudicial to public order [ for Jan. 22 prohibition of political activity in mosques see p. 38703 ] . |
| 18 | QUITE HOW it happened is open to public conjecture , but from being ‘ just another band ’ a few milliseconds back , the sumptuous , swaggering pearls of suave currently referred to as Suede today find themselves the red-hottest property on a lukewarm market . |
| 19 | When Charlemagne gave his support and patronage to Aethelred , he was honouring only one of at least four princely lines — Osred 's , Osbald 's , Aethelred 's and Eardwulf 's — and even with Frankish blessing Aethelred was unable in these circumstances to establish a long-lasting regime . |
| 20 | The number of emergency operations because of bleeding and the number of patients who died were comparable in both groups . |
| 21 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
| 22 | The land into which the Russians advanced was similar in many ways to Canada in terms of terrain , climate and natural vegetation . |
| 23 | The amount of RNA synthesized was unrelated to motor activity or any measure of stress that we could identify ( for instance how much the birds peeped or twittered ) , but it was strongly correlated with their preference score ; that is , the more the chicks had learned about the flashing light and preferred it to any alternative , the more RNA was synthesized in their forebrain roof . |
| 24 | The glue joints made were typical of this type of adhesive — almost instant and relatively brittle . |
| 25 | As can be seen in Table III , children who recovered were similar to both groups of the children who did not in sex distribution , age at initial evaluation and onset of constipation , stool frequency , percentage of patients with stool withholding , history of urinary tract infection , and stool retention . |
| 26 | Table IV shows that children who recovered were similar to both groups of children who did not in age at follow up , years of follow up , and frequency of day or night wetting . |
| 27 | To kill someone , all she did was fast for three days and concentrate her mind on destroying the life of her enemy . |
| 28 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 29 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 30 | Despite his youth he had travelled alone , sleeping in barns along the route , with which he had been familiar through previous trips in his father 's company . |