Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality . |
| 4 | contribution rule because income support rules had been constructed on the basis that a 20 per cent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That skating bit got 's to do |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mr Fallon said he had reassured the meeting the funding proposals had been withdrawn and could not be introduced without the joint agreement of the dental profession and the Department of Health . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A spokesman said the fur ban had been introduced purely on commercial grounds . |
| 15 | And an encouraging start on Wall Street followed the announcement that a budget settlement had been reached . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By the mid-1980s , the leftist policies had been reversed and China was operating more meritocratic principles for selecting those entering the educational elite , yet the social make-up of the successful few did not reflect the totality of the whole society . |
| 19 | Analysts noted that a review of the country 's security policies was needed , since much of the strategic reasoning behind previous defence plans had been negated by events , both domestic and international , during the year . |
| 20 | If the Sudan Defence Force had been unsuccessful in capturing this oasis , they would be in grave difficulty , stuck in the desert without fuel , water or rations . |
| 21 | The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive . |
| 22 | On Sept. 18 it was reported that in the previous week five truck drivers had been killed by armed groups , probably of the Afar clan , on the road from the port of Assab to Addis Ababa . |
| 23 | But he was concerned to prevent the system becoming a greater burden than ever through malpractice of the sort which the Worcester monk Hemming reports when he says that estates were sometimes taken even when the money due had been paid on time . |
| 24 | On several occasions , according to Werner 's informants , groups of Toraja resistance fighters had been taken into the forest by the Japanese , machine-gunned , and left there as a warning to others . |
| 25 | Last year I examined the way in which bone mass screening had been assessed in published work . |
| 26 | Until this study was carried out the individual elements of the FAOR methodology had been developed and tested in isolation , each being the responsibility of different organisations within the FAOR partnership . |
| 27 | On returning to Cyprus that spring , he found that the march of technology had continued in his absence and that all the CpFNS field offices had been hooked into a central computerized database installed by Link Systems , Ltd , a US government ‘ cut-out ’ company set up to carry out the contract for UNFDAC . |
| 28 | An East and West Association had been formed and I took an early opportunity of asking if I might address it . |
| 29 | In fact , measurement of pepsinogen concentrations had been proposed as a method for screening of gastritis . |
| 30 | She needed to know that you loved her ; so you told her all about the new drugs she could get from the Arcturans , or the huge advances in radiation treatment since rho mesons had been discovered . |