Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | History might have been different if Cleopatra 's nose had been longer or Napoleon had been taller . |
| 2 | If only Teddy or Richard had been spared from that terrible war , she would n't be cast out like this . |
| 3 | She asked whether Joseph or Merlyn had been back earlier . |
| 4 | But how much work was done , how much , if any , ore was obtained and how long the Quakers or Patrickson had been at work we may never discover . |
| 5 | In religious matters the restoration of monarchy was followed by the decisive establishment of the power of the Church of England , and in constitutional questions Charles showed that he was much more resigned to the need to work with Parliament than either Charles I or Cromwell had been , but in colonial affairs there was no change of direction , though the new government may have been able to follow its policy with more continuity than its predecessor . |
| 6 | Frederick Montague gave evidence to the Commissioners that no Court of Attachment or Swanimote had been held in Salcey Forest since he became Ranger , ‘ and I doubt whether such Courts have been held ever since the Rangership has been in my Family , which is about 120 years ’ . |
| 7 | Hearts , who have been at Tynecastle since 1886 , decided to redevelop their existing stadium after plans to move to a greenfield site at Hermiston or Millerhill had been rejected by Lothian Regional Council . |
| 8 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 9 | There would have been objections if areas of Scotland or Wales had been linked with parts of England for convenience er of this review , but it seems Cornwall once again as a distinct and separate identity , continues to be ignored . |
| 10 | When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’ |
| 11 | Of the previous four presidents one , Johnson , had been effectively driven from office by the failure of his Vietnam policy ; one , Nixon , had resigned in disgrace and neither Ford nor Carter had been able to cope with the limits on presidential power . |
| 12 | Laing and Costain had been medium and small building firms respectively in the north of England before both moved south to London and prospered … |
| 13 | Already the ranks of the creative arts had been woefully thinned ; Braque badly wounded , Léger gassed , Derain unscathed but reduced to decorating shell cases ; Péguy and Alain-Fournier had been killed , and Apollinaire wounded in the head . |
| 14 | And Ben had been a shadowy figure representing that other world ; the world into which Johnny could not pass . |
| 15 | For instance , Parvin and Sabina had been given the task of measuring each other with bricks . |
| 16 | When the Treaties of Rome creating the Common Market and Euratom had been signed in 1957 , de Gaulle had criticized them and told aides that , if he came back to power , he would " destroy " them . |
| 17 | This was a further blow for Adolph Zukor ; both Arbuckle and Taylor had been under contract to him . |
| 18 | They frequently flew together in the two-seater bi-plane , covering large sections of the south coast and Keitel had been able to indulge in his interest for aerial photography . |
| 19 | Both Ter-Petrosyan and Manukyan had been imprisoned between December 1988 and May 1989 for membership of the Karabakh Committee , set up in 1988 to campaign for Armenian control of Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 20 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |
| 21 | By the end of the Middle Ages , the marshes in Kent and Sussex had been sufficiently reclaimed to reveal an abiding characteristic of such operations : that in certain circumstances land drainage contains the seeds of its own destruction . |
| 22 | Both her mother and Lisa had been cross with her ; they both had felt she ought to settle down . |
| 23 | And Trent had been correct as to the Kalashnikovs — one more failure for British exports . |
| 24 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 25 | Her father was a rich and respected solicitor — not quite the right breeding , socially speaking , in County Westcommon , but Lalage 's charm and silly looks guaranteed her welcome in many houses to which her mother had never been invited : she and Nicandra had been " best friends " at their English school . |
| 26 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 27 | She and Sarah had been indignant and sad to see a picture of Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia on the Pathe News Gazette at the cinema after Mussolini had invaded his country . |
| 28 | She talked freely about the many young men she and Sarah had been out with , and sometimes had the women in fits of laughter , but she never mentioned John . |
| 29 | She and Sarah had been to the cinema the previous night and when the air raid warning sounded some people had left but most stayed . |
| 30 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |