Example sentences of "[noun] had been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ceauşescu had been part of the leadership under Dej which took the decision to press ahead with devoting enormous resources to industrializing Romania against Khruschev 's wishes . |
| 2 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 3 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 4 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 5 | Engstrom had been Deputy Finance Minister until 11 days previously when he became interim Finance Minister on Kjell-Olof Feldt 's resignation from the caretaker government . |
| 6 | All were CPSU members and Yazov , Yanayev and Kryuchkov had been politburo members , though after the reorganization of the party in July 1990 [ see p. 37614-17 ] , following the March abolition of its constitutional monopoly on power [ see p. 37299 ] , government ministers could no longer be on the party 's ruling bodies . |
| 7 | Pinto had been Professor of English at Nottingham since 1938 and oversaw the university 's transition to the autonomous degree-giving status which was achieved ten years later . |
| 8 | There was some speculation that the action had been part of ongoing Israeli efforts to secure the release of servicemen missing in Lebanon . |
| 9 | A member of the Socialist Unity Party ( PSU , until October 1990 the Socialist Party ( PSI ) — see p. 37786 ) , Vassalli had been Justice Minister since July 1987 [ see p. 35589 ] . |
| 10 | The ‘ man from the ministry ’ who had taken her statement about the crash and their escape had been kindness itself , but the effects had begun to creep up on her . |
| 11 | Mr Heddle had been MP for Mid Staffordshire since 1983 , with a majority of 14,654 in 1987 . |
| 12 | Yeltsin assured the miners that the transfer had been part of the pact which he and eight other republican leaders had signed with USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev a week earlier [ see p. 38129 ] . |
| 13 | Prosecuting counsel Antonis Georges said Gavin had been treasurer of the Welfare Scheme since 1985 . |
| 14 | Prosecuting counsel Antonis Georges said Gavin had been treasurer of the Welfare Scheme since 1985 . |
| 15 | There was the binding of wounds and examining of bruises to be considered , and the saying of prayers and sewing-up in bedding of those whose lives had been forfeit and above all there was a great deal of talking to be one , for , as the Magistrate scientifically observed , nothing unusual can happen among human beings without generating an immense , compensating volume of chatter . |
| 16 | ‘ Their lives had been hell and they were all very frightened . ’ |
| 17 | BRAZIL HAD BEEN PARADISE . |
| 18 | She was the mother and the wife and the queen of the home , as Our Lady had been queen of the little family at Nazareth . |
| 19 | Fergus had been waist deep and sinking fast . |
| 20 | Karl Barth had been pastor in Safenwil since 1911 . |
| 21 | Everything had been tried but to no avail — the suffering had been agony , not even deadened with morphine . |
| 22 | The first tree in the wood had been holly , wrapped around with ivy . |
| 23 | Until this time , the mainstay of treatment for syphilis had been mercury in some form or other , either by internal administration or in the form of unctions . |
| 24 | Tork had been Station Officer in Tel Aviv for eleven years . |
| 25 | Until November 1936 , the leitmotiv of his campaign had been speed , with the rapid conquest of Madrid as the prime objective . |
| 26 | Ecologists had been warning of the possibility of such a conflagration for some time . |
| 27 | He was troubled by the strange things the Rannoch eagles had said about the Wrath eagles being exterminated and wondered if his own capture had been part of that . |
| 28 | The deceased had been Daddy 's girl , then — although it was usually the dads , where a daughter was in question , who fought against the realization of the truth . |
| 29 | Lord Rathcreedan , who as Captain Cecil Norton had been Club Captain since 1914 , continued until 1921 , continued until 1921 and Mr. J.C . |
| 30 | At one time the Kaszubians and their Pomeranian kin had been part of a powerful independent principality : their territory had stretched from the gulf of Danzig westwards to Słupsk ( Stolp ) and the river Słupia ( Stolpe ) , where the small town of Dębnica Kaszubska ( literally : Kaszubian Oaks ) still survives . |