Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 2 | Most of his earlier stage designs had been for opera , and the latest of them , Simon Boccanegra , had been the big hit of the preceding season . |
| 3 | And Widnes general manager Frank Myler , insisted that no club had been in contact regarding a possible move by Davies from Naughton Park . |
| 4 | ‘ I was angry and upset to read that somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 5 | Crosby blew his top after learning of the Coppell link and said yesterday : ‘ I was angry and upset to read somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 6 | In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made . |
| 7 | So David had been on duty this morning , had he ? |
| 8 | The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results . |
| 9 | Once inside those walls , it really was another world , more than fifteen square kilometres of streets bordered by the crumbling walls of houses , public buildings , cemeteries and reservoirs , some with bits and pieces of bone lying exposed where long-dead looters and grave-robbers had been at work . |
| 10 | The PDC had been in opposition since leaving Endara 's government in April 1991 ; Arias had remained in the constitutional post of First Vice-President without attending Cabinet meetings . |
| 11 | It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge . |
| 12 | The entry had been by invitation and restricted to forty-eight amateurs and forty-eight professionals . |
| 13 | At the same time a change in the industrial mix had been in progress with traditional energy intensive industries in decline and service-based , high technology industries on the increase . |
| 14 | The government were not reassured to learn that Branson had been in consultation with Robert Beckman , the New York lawyer who was fighting the anti-trust action on Laker 's behalf . |
| 15 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 16 | Mr Fallon said he had talked to the longest serving officials in his department who said the expansion rule had been in place as long as they had been there . |
| 17 | The Wackersdorf reprocessing complex had been under construction for seven years behind barricades . |
| 18 | Mr Trelawney had been to sea before and knew enough to be useful , and one of the men , Israel Hands , was a careful and experienced seaman who was able to help with almost anything . |
| 19 | The future of the Swiss nuclear industry had been in doubt for a number of years , particularly since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union [ see pp.34460-62 ] , and in 1988 the government had halted plans to build a nuclear power station at Kaiseraugst near Basel [ see p. 36499 ] . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 21 | Once , not long ago , an old film called National Velvet had been on television and when the young Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the screen he had at once been sharply reminded of Mary — and had exited , not with the escape key but with the switch on the set . |
| 22 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |
| 23 | Miloš knew that Karadjordje had been in contact with the representatives of the Greek nationalist organisation Philike Hetairia ( Society of Friends ) , which was planning a general rising of all the sultan 's Christian subjects . |
| 24 | In the old days , he and his brother Josh had been in charge of the Punishment Squad . |
| 25 | The formation of a Franco-German military force had been under discussion for several years , and a 4,000-strong brigade had been agreed in principle in November 1987 [ see p. 35665 ; 35913 ] and started operations in October 1990 [ see p. 38473 ] . |
| 26 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 27 | Unusually , one of the schools had been in receipt of two Minor awards in successive years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Paul Gascoigne 's career and his hugely expensive transfer to Lazio had been in doubt ever since his disastrous knee injury in last year 's FA Cup Final , but the night club fracas which brought about a further fracture made a successful recovery look still less likely . |
| 30 | Areas around Ramallah and el-Bireh had been under curfew since the killing of a settler at the beginning of the intifada [ see pp. 35856-61 ] . |