Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the 1967 ban around 70 per cent of Albania 's population had been Moslems . |
| 2 | Before Rope Thrower subdued the Great Chief Manuelito — among whose lieutenants was Hawk 's many-times-great grandfather Armijo — the Navaho had been herders of horses and cattle , cultivators of corn , pumpkins , wheat and melons and famous for their groves of peach trees . |
| 3 | It had been a bitter pill to swallow , and she had made her feelings plain to the man her husband had been friends with since his childhood . |
| 4 | In the budget for 1992 announced on Jan. 20 , 1992 , spending on education had been increases by 19 per cent over the previous year . |
| 5 | Recounting the history of Bilmarsh farm , Gough observed : ‘ Nathaniell Reve had a desire to been tenant of this farme , because his grandfather and father had been tenants to it before ’ . |
| 6 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 7 | 114 ) ; when a member of the court was a shareholder of the brewery company which owned the premises in question : R. V. Gee ( 1901 ) 17 T.L.R. 374 ; when three of the members of a compensation tribunal which refused the renewal of a licence had , along with their fellow justices , instructed a solicitor to oppose the renewal before the tribunal : Frome United Breweries v. Bath JJ. [ 1926 ] A.C. 586 ; when three members of the committee which granted and confirmed a licence had been shareholders and directors of the company on whose behalf the licence was applied for , although they resigned as directors and sold their shares before taking part in the proceedings : R. v. Hain ( 1896 ) 12 T.L.R. 323 . |
| 8 | Most of the transmission had been pictures of malai soldiers back home in malai-land , strumming guitars in their uniforms , singing with their arms round each other , carrying kids , helping old ladies . |
| 9 | Both his father and his grandfather had been directors of the East India Company . |
| 10 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |
| 11 | That was the end of her working , and anyway the money had been peanuts . |
| 12 | Mr Georgiadis said much of Mr Makallah 's evidence to the inquest had been lies — particularly details on three important issues : Mr Makallah claimed he could not drive , yet other witnesses claimed to have been driven by him ; he denied telling a camp site proprietor that Miss Ward was definitely not killed by wild animals ; and he covered up how he knew her jeep did not have four-wheel drive . |
| 13 | The case aroused public disquiet as demonstrating that Evans 's conviction and execution had been miscarriages of justice ; there were two inquiries , and after the second Evans was granted a posthumous free pardon . |
| 14 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 15 | In his autobiography he claimed that the family had been farmers at Long Eaton , Derbyshire , since the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | The Churchward family had been squires of Stoke Gabriel from the end of the fifteenth century . |
| 17 | The only communication between him and his family had been letters smuggled out . |
| 18 | Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art , and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur . |
| 19 | His family had been landowners in Wales and Shropshire . |