Example sentences of "[num] had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser . |
| 2 | Although most of the new recruits to Kharkov 's metallurgical plants in 1914–17 had been ex-peasants from western Ukraine , there was no danger of nationalist sentiment ousting the Bolsheviks from the city . |
| 3 | The sons of George III had been prodigal breeders , had n't they ? |
| 4 | The Romanian Parliament had issued objections on Nov. 28 to the referendum 's being held in those Ukrainian territories which between 1918 and 1940 had been part of Romania , namely Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia , but which had been ceded to Ukraine under the terms of the Molotov-Ribentropp pact . |
| 5 | All three had been members of the Khmer Rouge administration in the eastern section of Cambodia who had taken up arms against the Pol Pot regime in 1978 . |
| 6 | All three had been supporters of Zhao Ziyang , the former party general secretary who had been held under house arrest since his dismissal in June 1989 . |
| 7 | A follow up of the 278 long stay patients discharged between 1985 and 1988 failed to trace only six people , who were presumed to have become vagrants ( three had been vagrants before their admission ) . |
| 8 | Another twenty-seven had been students in the imperial cadet corps , the naval academy , the mathematical-navigation school or the Slav — Greek — Latin academy . |
| 9 | Of those killed , 31 had been members of the police or army . |
| 10 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 11 | Of the twenty Law Lords in group A , eleven had been MPs and three Parliamentary candidates ; of the twenty-one in group B , five had been MPs ; of the twenty-two in group C , four had been MPs and two Parliamentary candidates . |
| 12 | Of the other three , one had been revenge , one an escapade , and one half serious , but all had now merged into a sentimental distance , an affectionate presence . |
| 13 | Modernists of the 1910s had been Latin-lovers , and often enough ( like Pound and Eliot ) immigrants ; Bloomsbury was ardently francophile ; and in the 1930s W. H. Auden and his school , if only to show they were not Modernist and not Bloomsbury , had haunted Hamburg and Berlin and admired German communism . |
| 14 | Olav , born on July 2 , 1903 , and his father Haakon VII had been symbols of Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation , during the Second World War . |
| 15 | Of these 57 authorities , 32 had been Partnership or Programme councils , and the remainder had a lower status either as Other Designated Districts or benefited from the traditional Urban Programme from which very many councils had gained some , often limited resources . |
| 16 | Of the twenty Law Lords in group A , eleven had been MPs and three Parliamentary candidates ; of the twenty-one in group B , five had been MPs ; of the twenty-two in group C , four had been MPs and two Parliamentary candidates . |
| 17 | 2109 and 2113 had been war casualties and written off , five standard Felthams scrapped at Purley depôt as already described and in November 1950 , while the move was in progress , Nos. 2144 and 2162 caught fire and were burned out . |
| 18 | Japan 's trade surplus with the USA in 1989 had been $49,000 million ( exports of less than $100,000 million against imports just exceeding $50,000 million ) . |
| 19 | However , the only manifestations of hostility up until October 1959 had been pressure on its European allies not to supply Cuba with weapons ( in mid-October Washington had blocked the sale of British jet fighters to Cuba ) . |
| 20 | The confident mood of the left in the 1960s had been part of a sudden wider upsurge in creativity concentrated on the arts , pop music , fashion , ‘ lifestyle ’ and sexual attitudes . |
| 21 | Elwin Wright , who up until 1937 had been secretary of a respectable Anglo-German Fellowship , advocated the shooting of Jews , called Neville Chamberlain a liar and a traitor and stated that Parliament was a ‘ blackmailing corrupt body of bastards . ’ |
| 22 | One member of the staff team of nine had nursing training ; two had been teachers and the rest were from a variety of other backgrounds . |
| 23 | The two had been part of the Rentokil team on ‘ operation cleanout ’ . |
| 24 | Of the twenty Law Lords in group A , eleven had been MPs and three Parliamentary candidates ; of the twenty-one in group B , five had been MPs ; of the twenty-two in group C , four had been MPs and two Parliamentary candidates . |
| 25 | The collective fee for their Excalibur 356 had been £250 , and at £50 per head , they reckoned the ARC was a singularly good deal . |
| 26 | Merton him self could not discount statistical data , which indicated that , of the foreign associates of the French Academy of Sciences during the period 1666–1885 , only eighteen had been Catholics , against eighty Protestants — despite Europe 's far larger Catholic population . |