Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lambing had begun and the sheep 's tousled fleece had been shorn to a jagged grey stubble . |
| 2 | The total award made was £54,196 . |
| 3 | The eight-year-old Ian had been talking in class all through a painting lesson . |
| 4 | By last night , six oil-soaked birds had been found and taken to an RSPCA shelter at Fareham , Hampshire . |
| 5 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 6 | His funeral was as well orchestrated as his political meetings had been . |
| 7 | By 1981 the artist was using photographic imagery as if it was purely graphic material , as if the literal meanings had been dissolved in a solution of ideas and metaphors — except that the half-tone dots from newsprint were emphatically part of the image . |
| 8 | The geography of fifteenth-century palaces had been relatively simple : there was a Great Hall , where ceremonious and public appearances were made , and the Chamber where the King withdrew and where only a few could follow him . |
| 9 | The independent commission established by the government to investigate and audit funds and property of former East German parties and political groups had been hindered in its work by shortage of staff and lack of co-operation from the affected organizations . |
| 10 | A seven-fathom section of the mooring cable had been removed and replaced with much lighter chain which then gave way during the next storm . |
| 11 | A prominent feature was the surviving aggregates of endocrine cells marking the former position of glandular bases where colonic crypts had been destroyed ( Fig 2B ) , a feature characteristically seen in graft v host disease . |
| 12 | In 1945–46 Soviet policy was to encourage cooperation between the moderate leftists and the communists until an administrative framework had been created . |
| 13 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 14 | Once a three-way division had been agreed in principle , each of the three brothers spent the rest of the summer in consolidating his position where it seemed weakest . |
| 15 | If the usual course had been followed it would have been discovered that there was no second statement , or at least none in Miss Tucker 's present lawyers ' possession . |
| 16 | After several years during which agricultural surpluses had been substantially reduced , they had risen by the end of 1990 and stood at : cereals — 18,000,000 tonnes ; beef — 700,000 tonnes ; butter — 278,000 tonnes ; skimmed milk powder — 335,000 tonnes ; wine — 8,000,000 hectolitres ; and tobacco — 30,000 tonnes . |
| 17 | Government-to-government contacts had been restarted in early December with the convening in Beijing of consultations on cultural exchanges . |
| 18 | They had cornered the Jeopardites in a canyon where a few makeshift tents indicated a Jeopardite camp had been discovered . |
| 19 | A prize of 10,000 Spanish coins had been promised to the first man to see land and he even claimed this . |
| 20 | The retired baker had been interviewed in the course of a tedious house-to-house enquiry and now it was a question of whether or not to believe the old man . |
| 21 | ‘ So the retired baker had been right . |
| 22 | But because so much money and technical faith had been invested in the project no one thought to check the information elsewhere or suspect that the system might be fallible . |
| 23 | Anti-papalism was also by now endemic , and a strong link had been forged in people 's minds between Protestantism and English nationalism . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that Dement performed experiments after this one in which his subjects showed none of the psychiatric symptoms with REM sleep deprivation , and that he himself made clear how his early observations were probably misleading about the effects of REM sleep deprivation , the idea that dreaming preserved sanity had been strongly reinforced . |
| 25 | Ministers ostensibly believed that economic progress had been limited by control , regulation and over-taxation . |
| 26 | Spanish values had been noble . |
| 27 | The review , which covered 142 of the world 's 178 countries showed that in 1991 , 65 countries still held prisoners of conscience , while the use of " disappearance " as a tactic for eliminating political opponents had been substantiated in 26 countries . |
| 28 | And that was the traditional sort of way in Galashiels , it was rather more like the rural areas than what the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow are , the toilets were just outside where the old dry toilets had been . |
| 29 | The city 's Jewish community were outraged , as the youth had previously confessed to the killing and a guilty verdict had been virtually taken for granted . |
| 30 | A maze of low stone walls bounded the twisting paths of the front lawn , and one wall of a former next-door cottage had been left standing as an ornament , with glassless windows . |