Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that the allied forces had achieved " general air superiority " over Iraq and Kuwait ; that enemy nuclear weapons reactors were " finished " ; that Iraqi aircraft were able to operate from only five of the country 's 66 airfields ; and that Iraqi air defence radar had been reduced by 95 per cent . |
| 2 | Fernando Serra had been too perfect . |
| 3 | Allan Stewart had been itching to speak . |
| 4 | In all these cases , trial courts had been moved by personal plight to overlook the fundamental principle that trials must be open in every respect . |
| 5 | No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality . |
| 6 | contribution rule because income support rules had been constructed on the basis that a 20 per cent . |
| 7 | Previously the rate support grant had been distributed to authorities on the basis of a complex formula which took account of a number of factors , including levels of local prosperity , which influence the need for local services . |
| 8 | In the United States most of the great curriculum projects in the ‘ sixties had been subvented rather than controlled by government and in both countries university personnel had been heavily involved , bringing with them , in almost equal measure , a power of creative innovation and an unacceptable academic arrogance which ignores realities in schools and distrusts anything ‘ political ’ as a threat to ‘ academic freedom ’ . |
| 9 | Over 260 people had enjoyed the evening and through the generosity of those who contributed prizes or money towards their purchase £137 had been made on the raffle . |
| 10 | At the beginning of every term he filled in a form habitually distributed to all teaching staff , requiring details of authorized absences from college ; for sabbaticals , or the marking of outside examinations , or simply because contractual staff-student contract hours had been fulfilled . |
| 11 | That skating bit got 's to do |
| 12 | Obviously Devlin Parnham had been prepared to agree to any sort of conditions to get the count to accept this mission . |
| 13 | In Kent v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner , a blanket ban had been imposed for 28 days in the light of the Brixton disorders of 10–13 April , and disorder at several Bank Holiday fairs . |
| 14 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 15 | Mr Fallon said he had reassured the meeting the funding proposals had been withdrawn and could not be introduced without the joint agreement of the dental profession and the Department of Health . |
| 16 | In his years of infiltrating terrorist groups Trent had been forced to listen to every form of philosophical self-justification . |
| 17 | Environmentalists said that Mr MacGregor had been ill-advised , and pointed out that the Department 's environmental assessment policies had been criticized by both the EC [ which has threatened the UK with legal action over the matter — see ED no. 52 ] and the government 's Standing Committee on Trunk Road Assessment . |
| 18 | A spokesman said the fur ban had been introduced purely on commercial grounds . |
| 19 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |
| 20 | And an encouraging start on Wall Street followed the announcement that a budget settlement had been reached . |
| 21 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 22 | Will Slaughter had been employed formerly as a headsman . |
| 23 | An imitation Everest base camp had been pitched there for the benefit of press , potential sponsors and team members in need of some high-altitude practice . |
| 24 | Herr Nordern had been about to say ‘ the bunker , ’ the stretch of waste land behind Friedrichstrasse where , in his concrete tomb , as the Russians had battered their way into the city in 1945 , Hitler had lived his final appalling fantasy ; commanding armies which did not exist , so condemning thousands , hundreds of thousands of civilians to death in those final lunatic days . |
| 25 | Michell 's work provided the opportunity researchers had been waiting for and Pat Gadsby and Chris Hutton-Squire , of the alternative technology magazine , Undercurrents , took up the challenge . |
| 26 | ‘ It is four years since my last midfield appearance because Colin Harvey moved be back to right back and then the injuries began . |
| 27 | Liu Ho-chien had been appointed to replace Gen. Chen Hsin-ling as military chief of staff . |
| 28 | When the Diet reconvened on Jan. 24 , the Prime Minister sought to fend off charges that Kyowa money had been used by Abe to assist Miyazawa 's campaign for the LDP leadership in October 1991 [ see p. 38558 ] . |
| 29 | Not only Michio Watanabe but also Koichi Kato and Hideo Watanabe had been accused of involvement in the Recruit scandal . |
| 30 | Captain Bernard Davidson had been one of Otto Schiff 's adjutants on the Refugee Committee before his appointment by the War Office as recruiting officer for the aliens and refugees . |