Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Hence the provision made was in the form of public sector over spill , particularly at Longbenton , but also within Wallsend and Tyne mouth County Borough .
2 Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) .
3 Similarly in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 266 the seller of a car was guilty of a total failure to perform where the car delivered was in such a poor condition that it was totally incapable of self-propulsion and could not properly be described as a " car " .
4 What was read aid preached was to me airy nothing .
5 If this card had been with either North or South the slam would have been a 75-per-cent chance .
6 I saw nothing of them : the eight-yard-high obelisk was swathed in wooden bandages , as impenetrable as Scott 's Monument had been in Edinburgh .
7 When we last spoke , you told me that you were reading in bed until eleven-thirty , when you went to sleep , and your last sortie from the bedroom had been to the kitchen for milk at approximately ten-forty .
8 Magistrates were told that the defendant had been to Mr. White 's bank and had offered to pay the money stolen from them .
9 And Widnes general manager Frank Myler , insisted that no club had been in contact regarding a possible move by Davies from Naughton Park .
10 ‘ I was angry and upset to read that somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell .
11 Crosby blew his top after learning of the Coppell link and said yesterday : ‘ I was angry and upset to read somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell .
12 The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results .
13 Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees .
14 His mind had been on the office .
15 Fear had been at its pitch during the first few hours and days .
16 1992/93 maintenance had been for file-servers , high-performance PCs , and critical laser printers only .
17 In his reply , the Chief Executive told Councillor Matheson that the Social Work Department had been in the process of compiling guidelines when ‘ the present difficulties ’ arose .
18 Although our prediction had been for around 100 validations , based on the transfer of old courses , we will actually be involved in closer to 320 validations .
19 It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge .
20 The worst thing was that the tape was on metal spools and the resulting damage was not a complete wipe : there were still tantalising fragments of the recording left where the tape had been under the metal ‘ spokes ’ of the reel , I would be interested to know if this legend is true .
21 The Western movie had been to America , the new promised land , what the Old Testament and its heroes — Abraham , Moses , Samson , Saul and David — had been in Biblical times .
22 The entry had been by invitation and restricted to forty-eight amateurs and forty-eight professionals .
23 At the same time a change in the industrial mix had been in progress with traditional energy intensive industries in decline and service-based , high technology industries on the increase .
24 Nizan was convinced that the novel in the contemporary period was as significant a genre as tragedy had been in the classical period . "
25 ‘ Jill Jones 's album had been on the shelf for so long that when it did come out , it sounded old , ’ she reveals .
26 A Maniak chapter had been through last week , and one or two of them were still around , enjoying the yakuza hospitality at the ze Schluderpacheru place .
27 It reminded me how quiet my rocky tooth had been for at least a week or two now …
28 The original intention had been for the Quins players , seven of whom were in England 's Grand Slam squad , to have Easter off .
29 The original intention had been for the expedition to sail on 10 February but the usual bad weather made this impossible and Ormonde became progressively more reluctant to leave , suspecting that all hope of surprise had now been lost .
30 Although the original intention had been to formally assess the new curriculum before deciding to extend it to the rest of the school , various forces came into play to ensure that by 1987 the entire 160 strong intake was studying the new pathway course .
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