Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of March this had been " refined " further : from then onwards , Franco 's war of attrition was both a military inevitability and a punishment for the Republic 's resistance . |
| 2 | Pindar pleads with Arkesilas for one of these nobles who is out of favour , a ‘ pollarded oak-tree ’ — cp. the tyrant 's maxim about ‘ pruning the tallest poppies ’ on p. 51 ; and in the late sixth century when the balance of strength was the other way , Arkesilas III had been forced out of the country to Samos . |
| 3 | Bogged down in Mexico and denied any support from Britain , Napoleon III had been unable to exercise any influence during the war which Prussia had forced on Denmark in 1864 and Bismarck was determined that there should also be no interference in the war which he now planned with Austria . |
| 4 | What Napoleon III did was to bring in ‘ greenery ’ , in the sense that the word was understood in England , and here , without doubt , his experiences in London were important . |
| 5 | The students demonstrating on Jan. 7 had been refused permission to hold their rally in Victory Square in central Bucharest , the authorities having cited security concerns . |
| 6 | Ken Lax has been appointed industrial sales manager of Stockton-based cathodic protection manufacturer , Wilson Walton International . |
| 7 | Lancaster 's objections to the regime , however , were concerned just as much with domestic affairs : he criticized the queen for her greed and acquisitiveness , singling out for special mention her appropriation of the lordship of Pontefract which had been held by Earl Thomas in right of his wife , He complained that the treasure left by Edward II had been ‘ wastede and born away withouten the wille of Kyng Edwarde his sone , in destruccioun of him and of his folk ’ , and proposed that Mortimer ‘ shouldd dwelle oppon his owen landes ’ . |
| 8 | In a letter to the Secretary of State , I outlined my deep concern over the case and over the way in which the allegation by Mrs. X had been investigated . |
| 9 | Power which under Edward IV had been distributed through a network of royal servants would now gradually become concentrated in one man . |
| 10 | By the time Gloucester took control , the cash left by Edward IV had been absorbed by these military costs and there was relatively little money coming in . |
| 11 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 12 | Power which under Edward IV had been distributed through a network of royal servants would now gradually become concentrated in one man . |
| 13 | By the time Gloucester took control , the cash left by Edward IV had been absorbed by these military costs and there was relatively little money coming in . |
| 14 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 15 | The likes of Terry Wogan , Michael Parkinson and Ernie Wise all have been known to clamour for a soul food supper in preference to other exotic foreign fare . |
| 16 | Dundee United have been the corner shop competing with the hypermarkets of Glasgow , and business has been brisk with pockets of profitability . |
| 17 | Edward elicited these favours despite remarkable effrontery towards papal jurisdiction and patronage : in pursuit of royal rights of patronage at the expense of papal claims and expectations , Edward II was even more blatant than Edward I had been , and in 1309 and 1317 papal grievances went unregarded and unanswered . |
| 18 | Technopol Eryri Cyf/Snowdonia Technopole Ltd has been adopted as the name of a holding company to formalise the partnership . |
| 19 | A nephew of Napoleon I had been elected President of the French Second Republic in December 1848 and was to become Emperor of the French in 1852 . |
| 20 | Richard I had been crowned duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitou in 1172 at Limoges and Poitiers , and the ordo ad benedicendum ( coronation order ) made no reference to the kings of France . |
| 21 | The second symptom of change following his long residence at Lyons is this : in later years , but never earlier , Anselm occasionally used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae , of which Hugh and Gregory VII had been the chief advocates for the last twenty years . |
| 22 | A FAMILY archive including sensitive letters concerning the Abdication of King Edward VIII has been saved for the nation . |
| 23 | Then , nine months ago , when Luce Weston senior had been killed in a motorway pile-up , she had , at her niece 's request , taken over the running of the gallery . |
| 24 | While William III had been occupied in Ireland the French had been active in the Channel . |
| 25 | Some prisoners benefiting from the general amnesty of March 7 had been detained following earlier incidents in October 1987 and October 1988 . |
| 26 | On Jan. 17 the 13-member tribunal , which since March 1991 had been hearing the case concerning the Bank of Crete , acquitted former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of all the charges against him . |
| 27 | Although their ‘ defeatist ’ tone was highly unwelcome to the regime 's leadership , the SD central digests were usually milder in their statements than many of the reports which were coming into headquarters from the provincial SD stations . |
| 28 | A general strike of civil servants on May 4-10 had been supported by teachers , state agricultural workers and hospital workers and had reportedly closed 50 per cent of government offices . |
| 29 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 30 | Seventy-five year old Marcel Callow has been practising his art for more than fifty years . |