Example sentences of "[noun sg] had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that one horse had been Milton , it would have been different , of course . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His adviser had been Thomas Throgmorton . |
| 4 | ( His British predecessor in such technical study had been Thomas Hardy ; but that is another , and difficult , topic . ) |
| 5 | The owner of the Fender amplifier had been Chris Cornell , singer with Soundgarden , who is a guest located on the 15th floor . |
| 6 | The first culprit had been Paul Azinger an hour or so before but his slip had gone unpunished when Seve Ballesteros did the same with his approach to the green . |
| 7 | He remembered the dream where he had been riding north with Jinneth into the mountains , and he was sure that something of that figure had been Jenny . |
| 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 | The battered instrument had been Paddy Byrne 's most treasured possession and he had played it like a genius when his belly was full of beer . |
| 10 | We might expect such a king to have been beatified upon his death ( his ancestor had been St Arnulf ) but Charles ' indifference to Christian morality prevented this . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | The mover behind the women 's rights issue had been Fred Halliday , another cross-over from the New Left Review . |
| 14 | His formative influence as a boy had been John Cassell 's Popular Educator , first published in 1852 . |
| 15 | The Confederate flag had been Ellen 's idea , to be unfurled whenever we had charterers from the deep South , and this week 's guests were three married couples from Georgia . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Everything had been tried but to no avail — the suffering had been agony , not even deadened with morphine . |
| 18 | The first tree in the wood had been holly , wrapped around with ivy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A key issue in the campaign had been Malta 's foreign policy , in particular its relationship with the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 21 | Until November 1936 , the leitmotiv of his campaign had been speed , with the rapid conquest of Madrid as the prime objective . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The memorable part of the meeting had been Lowell 's eagerness to be with her . |
| 25 | Before the 1967 ban around 70 per cent of Albania 's population had been Moslems . |
| 26 | Two young Sowetans were convicted of murder and armed robbery in connection with Dr Asvat 's death , but newspaper reports suggested the motive had been assassination rather than robbery . |
| 27 | Everybody 's player of the season , Mark Prudhoe , saved from Alan Johnson and Andy Pilling , but Quakers thought they were worth a penalty after 71 minutes when Mardenborough appeared to be pulled down by Jones , but referee Burns , who up to that point had been whistle happy , turned the appeals down . |
| 28 | I remember the amounts because for several years , it was my Saturday job to go to St. Martin 's Church Vestry to collect the money which was paid out by the Parish Clerk , Mr. Daniel Sutton , who before retirement had been Headmaster of the Church School . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The trawler had been fishing five miles off the coast in international waters but within the prohibited area . |