Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 2 | He had been employed before 1917 in the archives of the foreign ministry and one of his ancestors on his mother 's side had been Russian ambassador in Vienna during the 1814 – 15 congress . |
| 3 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 4 | This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses . |
| 5 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 6 | Bruno of Nordgau had been fifty-one years old when he died . |
| 7 | The first few months had been sheer bliss . |
| 8 | Voight first got to know Dustin well when he was playing Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge in January 1965 , on which Dustin had been assistant director . |
| 9 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
| 10 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 11 | The Monastery of Santa de Nogueira had been imported stone by stone from Portugal to the Gila Desert , Arizona , in 1819 , and abandoned after the Mexican-American War . |
| 12 | For the first time she regretted being an identical twin ; none of this would have happened if she and Dana had been ordinary sisters , but then you might never have met Roman Wyatt , her subconscious whispered . |
| 13 | Her presence and her loss had been equal disasters . |
| 14 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
| 15 | Although we did not foresee any difficulties , we were astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , had asked for the programme on the Suez operation of 1956 , in which Mountbatten had been First Sea Lord , to be deferred ‘ possibly for some months ’ . |
| 16 | Heather had been this way before him , had seen and understood what he would shortly see and might yet understand . |
| 17 | Churchill , Eden , Macmillan , and Home had been political grandees ; all emerged through the ‘ magic circle , and not as a result of election by MPs . |
| 18 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 19 | Demirel had been Prime Minister six times in the period until 1980 , and several of his administrations had been coalitions . |
| 20 | This image of a pion transmuting was as important to particle physics as Rutherford 's discovery of the transmutation of the elements had been 40 years earlier . |
| 21 | The turning point for me came after scum had been one fo the chosen matches for about 8 weeks in succession , then one evening it seemed they were nt . |
| 22 | " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . " |
| 23 | Artemis had been busy drawing , sitting on the window seat of the nursery , high up on the third floor of the family wing . |
| 24 | STAFF TRAINING The details have yet to be revealed but Mr Pearson said the council had been encouraging firms to train their staff since 1983 . |
| 25 | Two days later we were in the grips of another Hebbert epic , running round the High Level Route to get back to Wasdale Head for 10.00pm — our estimated time of return had been three hours earlier ! |
| 26 | Trade and Industry Secretary Navarro was the head of an accounting firm , while Agrarian Reform Secretary Garilao had been executive director of the Philippine Business for Social Progress , a business-funded foundation established to undertake community projects . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's what I was on about , Boyo , ’ Taff answered , pointing to the spot a few yards away where the mortar team had been this morning . |
| 28 | Clearly cancelling the preview had been one option the producers had discussed . |
| 29 | Her last post had been General Secretary to the Association of Headmistresses . |
| 30 | He was a countryman at heart , and although these past weeks had been tremendous fun , it was lovely to see the grass and trees and a blue sky unclouded by smoke . |