Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fernando Serra had been too perfect . |
| 2 | Allan Stewart had been itching to speak . |
| 3 | Obviously Devlin Parnham had been prepared to agree to any sort of conditions to get the count to accept this mission . |
| 4 | Will Slaughter had been employed formerly as a headsman . |
| 5 | Herr Nordern had been about to say ‘ the bunker , ’ the stretch of waste land behind Friedrichstrasse where , in his concrete tomb , as the Russians had battered their way into the city in 1945 , Hitler had lived his final appalling fantasy ; commanding armies which did not exist , so condemning thousands , hundreds of thousands of civilians to death in those final lunatic days . |
| 6 | ‘ It is four years since my last midfield appearance because Colin Harvey moved be back to right back and then the injuries began . |
| 7 | Liu Ho-chien had been appointed to replace Gen. Chen Hsin-ling as military chief of staff . |
| 8 | When the Diet reconvened on Jan. 24 , the Prime Minister sought to fend off charges that Kyowa money had been used by Abe to assist Miyazawa 's campaign for the LDP leadership in October 1991 [ see p. 38558 ] . |
| 9 | Not only Michio Watanabe but also Koichi Kato and Hideo Watanabe had been accused of involvement in the Recruit scandal . |
| 10 | Captain Bernard Davidson had been one of Otto Schiff 's adjutants on the Refugee Committee before his appointment by the War Office as recruiting officer for the aliens and refugees . |
| 11 | WALES 'S World Cup qualifying tie against The Netherlands tomorrow , deprived of three main attractions by the suspension of Ian Rush and Mark Hughes and injury to Ruud Gullit , recovered some of its box-office potential yesterday with the news that Marco van Basten had been added to the Dutch squad . |
| 12 | Jerome Fanshawe had been an affluent stockbroker . |
| 13 | Edgar and Isabella Linton had been invited to lunch , and their mother had agreed , on condition that her darlings were kept carefully apart from ‘ that wicked boy ’ . |
| 14 | Donald and Sheila Baughan had been married for 20 years . |
| 15 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 16 | His friend William Pattisson had been a pupil at Rochemont Barbauld 's school near Diss and , although an Independent , was familiar with the Octagon circle . |
| 17 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 9 reported that although the decision to cancel Netherlands aid had been taken by President Suharto , it was widely supported by the government and bureaucracy . |
| 18 | Prior to the rioting the Dinkins administration had been widely congratulated on successfully avoiding the disturbances which had affected many US cities in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots of April-May 1992 . |
| 19 | I was in Italy and read in the paper that Paul Van Kempen had been appointed as General Music Director in Aachen . |
| 20 | In the upper panels , the 32 P-end-labelled fragments used were the 47 bp Mam I- Sfa NI fragment for the wt- , -65 , -68 , -72 and -73 mutant promoters and the 52 bp Mam I- Sau 3A fragment for the -75 mutant promoter . |
| 21 | In the lower panels , the 32 P-end-labelled fragments used were 250 bp Xba I- Pvu II fragments isolated from the p13-152 derivatives as indicated above each panel . |
| 22 | Ian Paisley had been born into the rural pious Orange tradition of politicized Protestantism in County Armagh . |
| 23 | The young Irish champion had made a big impression on his regular cross-channel trips last season , and a place with Swift or Van Diemen had been earmarked for him ever since he stunned the British series regulars by winning the opening round of the 1992 championship . |
| 24 | Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time . |
| 25 | She was followed by Michael Foot who made a strong attack on the Government and ended with the devastating charge that the Falkland Islanders had been betrayed and ‘ the whole responsibility for the betrayal rests with the Government ’ . |
| 26 | Puddephat had given evidence , saying Melanie Gandell had been one of his brightest students , and he had gone out of his way to encourage her academically as a result . |
| 27 | In 1968 Felix Dennis had been recruited ; in 1969 Jim Anderson joined the paper . |
| 28 | For twenty years Marcus Judge had been the most powerful figure on Jubilee Wharf , second only to the Wharfmaster himself . |
| 29 | The SLA leader Ronnie Brunswijk had been briefly arrested by the army in March 1990 after his forces intercepted a large cocaine shipment in transit from Colombia . |
| 30 | The DUP MP claimed that the John Hume-Gerry Adams discussions had been ‘ a total failure in bringing peace ’ . |