Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [been] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 2 | When Anthony Eden resigned the premiership in broken health in January 1957 , the two obvious contenders had been R.A. Butler and Harold Macmillan . |
| 3 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 4 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 5 | The two main candidates had been Khasbulatov , nominated by the Democratic Russia group , and Sergei Baburin , nominated by the centrist Rossiya group of deputies and supported by the Communists of Russia group . |
| 6 | Only the older ones , the ones whose husbands had been engineers and farmers and management consultants first , agreed with her . |
| 7 | Till then , computers had been number-crunchers , built to perform one specific function — calculation — at speeds humans could not approach . |
| 8 | It was also established that the Jews had been friends of the inhabitants of Pergamum in the time of Abraham ( Ant . |
| 9 | In the winter of 1950/1 , for example , government estimates were that consequential industrial production losses had been £8–10 millions . |
| 10 | The Prussians had been allies of Britain at Waterloo , and preindustrial , Biedermeier , Germany was very attractive to many Britons . |
| 11 | The words had been Sandor 's before he died and Rostov wondered if the assassin had ever suspected that he too was scheduled for termination once he completed his assigned task . |
| 12 | One of the defendants had been Ivan " Janez " Jansa , who was now Slovenia 's defence minister and an advocate of setting up a separate Slovene army . |
| 13 | There was the binding of wounds and examining of bruises to be considered , and the saying of prayers and sewing-up in bedding of those whose lives had been forfeit and above all there was a great deal of talking to be one , for , as the Magistrate scientifically observed , nothing unusual can happen among human beings without generating an immense , compensating volume of chatter . |
| 14 | ‘ Their lives had been hell and they were all very frightened . ’ |
| 15 | The Economist 's survey of 1956 recorded that 23 per cent of their 69 judges had been MPs or Parliamentary candidates . |
| 16 | Ecologists had been warning of the possibility of such a conflagration for some time . |
| 17 | Both of her grandmothers had been ladies-in-waiting to the Queen Mother . |
| 18 | Ace 's grenades had been incendiaries . |
| 19 | In the seven cases where no specific primary carer was named as participating , four social workers had been aides by unspecified ‘ others ’ , and the remaining three had completed the form with the cooperation of the young person ( 16–18 year old ) alone . |
| 20 | Those woundings had been steps on the path that brought her to Santa de Nogueira , she realized . |
| 21 | Of 1,000 GPs questioned by the Doctor newspaper , three out of four said the culprits had been patients or members of their families . |
| 22 | So did Kiffin Rockwell , the twenty-one-year-old medical student from North Carolina , both of whose grandfathers had been officers in the Confederate Army . |
| 23 | In 1982 , a study found that only 2 per cent of sales in the previous six years had been flats ( General Household Survey 1982 , 1984 , Table 5.44 ) . |
| 24 | The show was worthy of the Cambridge Footlights , and I have no doubt that some of the participants had been members of that renowned dramatic society . |
| 25 | The government on July 18 took direct control of the State Property Agency ( SPA ) , whose officials had been members of the former communist government , and a week later announced that the head of the SPA , Istvan Tompe , would be replaced by Lajos Crepi ( former vice-president of the old post office ) . |
| 26 | The arrival of ‘ Alcibiades ’ with his partying revellers is a bit of an anticlimax — a touch jaded rhythmically , almost as if Boughton and his crew were rather wishing that Bernstein 's Greeks had been philosophers first and swingers second . |
| 27 | Winter coats had been navy or dark grey . |
| 28 | Indeed feuds with these families had been part of the staple political diet of the early twelfth-century Dukes , though neither Eleanor 's father nor grandfather can be supposed to have been introducing " Anglo-Norman methods of government " . |
| 29 | His predecessors had been Charles Gorham , James Muir , William McDougall and Leslie Edwards . |
| 30 | Moreover , it was the location of the Infantry Academy where Franco himself and many of his fellow-rebels had been cadets . |