Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 2 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 3 | He took the car which had been Grégoire 's favourite and also , by chance , Isobel 's . |
| 4 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 5 | Browne has noted that the early drafts he received , together with a synopsis of the action , already suggested the shape of the complete play — quite unlike the false starts and extensive rewriting which had been Eliot 's procedure in his earlier work ; Browne explained this in terms of his " greater self-confidence as a playwright " . |
| 6 | The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes . |
| 7 | Some districts which had been forest in 1300 were however excluded in 1641 . |
| 8 | Three candidates who had been members of the CNC , Nadjita Ngororo , Doungous Kimto and Bobekreo Tchimne , were also defeated . |
| 9 | Even here in Roztoky there have been burglaries . ’ |
| 10 | On a few of the more established family units there had been development into quite considerable contracting businesses which enabled the family to continue to live on or around the farm . |
| 11 | She felt certain that with Bella there had been passion . |
| 12 | Meanwhile in the main ring there have been displays of everything from parachuting to sheep dog displays . |
| 13 | DESPITE the current unrest at the Brandywell it has been business as usual for Derry City boss Roy Coyle . |
| 14 | When Dalin and Rust were writing they pointed to a variety of stimuli for change : in the United States it had been competition with the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | I found it hard to find Mill 's arguments for this , although he seems to be , he seems to be arguing the point over several pages , but erm we get pretty much rhetorical claims and evidence and so he wants us to consider those states which have been ruled by despots with those contemporary states which have been democracies England versus Spain say and he thinks it 's obvious which type of system we ought to prefer . |
| 16 | This may well mean developing the range of presentational skills which have been part and parcel of effective classroom teaching for generations . |
| 17 | Above all , fidelity to the " open justice " principle keeps Britain free from the reproach that it permits " secret courts " of the kind which have been instruments of repression in so many other countries . |
| 18 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 19 | A straight , imposing avenue was required to link the palace with the north-south axis of roads which had been Bucharest 's traditional main line of communication . |
| 20 | 664 more than a shadow of the influence in southern England which had been Eadwine 's or Oswald 's . |
| 21 | Well I mean surely it 's , that 's the point now is to try to make a fair erm law and one that is ideologically erm designed seeing we 've got to power , or we 've got certainty of obtaining power , therefore land ownership has got to be land ownership which has been capitalism Marxist |
| 22 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 23 | Klestil , 59 , a career diplomat who had been ambassador to the USA and permanent representative at the UN , would take over the presidency from Kurt Waldheim for a six-year term beginning on July 8 . |
| 24 | In 1934 , Henry Wash resigned as District Chairman as a new appointment took him to Kent and was succeeded by Harold Shearman who had been vice-chairman of the District since 1931 . |
| 25 | The young Wanless , an only child who had been captain of the football team and head boy at his primary school , won a scholarship to Newcastle Royal Grammar School . |
| 26 | She dredged up her past , recalling the girl who had been Jazzbeaux , who had been a War Chief . |
| 27 | In 1968 , to restore public confidence in the so-called finance houses , banks and other money-lending agencies , a Committee of Enquiry was appointed under the chairmanship of Lord Crowther who had been Governor of the Bank of England . |
| 28 | Frank McManus who had been MP at Westminster for Fermanagh and South Tyrone until February , 1974 had been selected earlier as a Unity candidate for the Convention elections but after a party meeting just before the close of nominations withdrew his name . |
| 29 | The arrest of three police officers and two military captains who had been members of the elite UESAT unit of the Panamanian Defence Forces commanded by the former dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega , led to suggestions that a serious coup attempt had been intended , and that it had enjoyed wide support from the police . |
| 30 | Baker denied that the situation in the Gagauz and Dnestr regions would create a problem in establishing diplomatic relations between the USA and Moldova , although at the beginning of February there had been reports of fighting between Dnestr separatists and Moldovan police . |