Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority had been of wood and most of these were lost through fire . |
| 2 | The base had been in line for the axe under the Options for Change review of the Services but was saved because the cost of relocation exceeded the saving . |
| 3 | Hence the provision made was in the form of public sector over spill , particularly at Longbenton , but also within Wallsend and Tyne mouth County Borough . |
| 4 | Hitherto the provision had been for the Speaker to become interim president , with the obligation to organize elections within a period of 45-60 days . |
| 5 | And the change had been with Pamela , not with him . |
| 6 | Although he differentiated his position from that of Draper , suggesting that the struggle had been between science and dogmatic theology rather than between science and religion , A. D. White insisted that there had been a theological and a scientific view of every question , invariably at odds . |
| 7 | It was developed originally to promulgate priestly or legislative initiatives , and since these were collective and in some sense impersonal productions , what the writer meant was to all intents and purposes recoverable from what he wrote down . |
| 8 | Almost all previous contact with the Board had been through courses of one or two days duration — mostly held on a trainee 's farm ( but also at local education colleges in England and Wales ) , with up to 70% of the time being spent on trainee participation and practice . |
| 9 | Subjects were told that after they had heard the passage one sentence from it would be repeated , either exactly , or with some small change , and that their task was to say whether the sentence had been in the passage or not . |
| 10 | Up to 20 miles each was walked by dogs and owners on the 1 mile route round the Serpentine and the money raised was in excess of £1,200 . |
| 11 | Though the brand had been in the market since before the war , it had a very small market share . |
| 12 | The dream that the resort offered was of economic independence by being in business on one 's own . |
| 13 | Say was remanded to Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen and the case continued was without plea until Thursday . |
| 14 | The case had been under way in Ohio for more than two years and was now ready for trial . |
| 15 | It appears that the case had been in progress before the Heliopolitan Divine Council for eighty years and the gods were understandably becoming impatient and short-tempered , yet they seemed unable to decide upon a judgement . |
| 16 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 17 | The evening before , the carrier-bag had been at the foot of the monkey-puzzle , propped up against the trunk , facing the house . |
| 18 | After all , she and the Archdeacon had been into the house once already . |
| 19 | At the end of her eight-week course at the ICO she declared that the experience had been like a very deep well with pure water . |
| 20 | This distinction is familiar enough to the jurist for whom the fairness and therefore the acceptability of a trial may be more a matter of the way in which the trial was conducted than whether or not the verdict reached was in some further sense the right one . |
| 21 | The cabin had been in darkness , and she had been alone . |
| 22 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 23 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 24 | The entry had been by invitation and restricted to forty-eight amateurs and forty-eight professionals . |
| 25 | Forces opposed to the President had been in control of much of the country for several months [ see pp. 37702-03 ; 37767-68 ; 37844-45 ] , with the central government 's authority largely confined to the area around the capital . |
| 26 | Similarly in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 266 the seller of a car was guilty of a total failure to perform where the car delivered was in such a poor condition that it was totally incapable of self-propulsion and could not properly be described as a " car " . |
| 27 | The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results . |
| 28 | Magistrates were told that the defendant had been to Mr. White 's bank and had offered to pay the money stolen from them . |
| 29 | The worst thing was that the tape was on metal spools and the resulting damage was not a complete wipe : there were still tantalising fragments of the recording left where the tape had been under the metal ‘ spokes ’ of the reel , I would be interested to know if this legend is true . |
| 30 | how useful the review had been in producing proposals for institutional c change . |