Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Coming from a police family and married to a police officer , her inculcated beliefs were such that the alternative concepts which the sociology of law posed were beyond acceptability .
2 The job involved being in charge of ‘ country correspondents ’ in villages scattered within 25 to 50 miles around the city , editing their weekly contributions , measuring their column-inches for payments and generally supervising the rural aspect of the newspaper .
3 The powers involved were under Section 52 of the 1971 Town and Country Planning Act : however , subsequent intervention in late 1981 by the Secretary of State for the Environment appears to have prevented planners from being able to specify the nature of occupiers of new housing .
4 The strongest associations we found were between measures of periodontal disease or oral hygiene and total mortality among men under 50 at baseline ( table IV ) .
5 But they only shots they encountered were from cameras .
6 Looking back on their ten years of marriage , Davina and Alastair feel they stopped being in touch with what their needs were after their children were born .
7 The farmers visited were in Buskerud county , with five in the hill region just north of Drammen and five some 160km northwest of that city around Al , Gol , Torpo and Nesbyen .
8 Preliminary observational studies of the self-instructional material provided for library orientation showed that the material provided was of help to new users , but that it did not , alone , supply adequate orientation information .
9 The equipment listed was in use in 1989 for a maximum of 30 windsurf guests .
10 The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK .
11 The specification used was in error correction format ( Hendry et al , 1983 ) which by specifying variables in both differences and lagged levels enables one to separate out long and short run influences on the dependent variable .
12 The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone .
13 They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend .
14 " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor .
15 However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks .
16 Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years .
17 They were both drunker than they 'd been for years .
18 Yeah and I said to her erm , and she said I do n't know how it came out about her son in the fire service , oh I know she 'd just come back from Orlando , cos she 'd been off work having had a hysterectomy and she had three week 's leave due to her
19 He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’
20 Johnny Smart , who 'd been at Oxford with him and edited one of the university magazines , landed what seemed then an amazing job on the Evening Standard .
21 Helen did n't help herself or increase the possibility of peace on earth by saying she 'd been at Dad 's Chislehurst gig .
22 Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages .
23 ‘ She 'd been at work , she said , when she went into labour .
24 But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig .
25 After he 'd been at Mandru for a while , Lucien learned that Mandru had refused to have any more boys from Por Tanssie after his last purchase from that academy had committed suicide .
26 He 'd been at school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen .
27 If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter .
28 I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school .
29 This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home .
30 Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out .
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