Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1992/93 maintenance had been for file-servers , high-performance PCs , and critical laser printers only . |
| 2 | For many lifetimes railway practice had been for locomotives and rolling stock to be downgraded or ‘ cascaded ’ from front line to secondary services . |
| 3 | He seemed to be suggesting that once Balbinder had been at Cedars for a while , he might be capable of re-entering mainstream education at middle school transfer . |
| 4 | The MQM and the PPP had been at loggerheads since October 1989 , when the MQM ended its 11-month old alliance with the PPP and joined the Combined Opposition Parties [ see p. 37043 ] . |
| 5 | In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools . |
| 6 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 7 | This was offset by the fact that all the farmers had been on courses but in a family farm situation , where over half the wives were expected to carry out farm work in the case of their husbands ' sickness , some training should be beneficial . |
| 8 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 9 | Mr Malik had been at pains to exclude what he continued to call ‘ the loonies ’ — that is to say , anyone whose attitude to the practice of his faith was , in the headmaster 's opinion , excessively enthusiastic . |
| 10 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 11 | From this she deduced that the earlier arrangements had been of hamlets with infields , but , following growth in population , settlements had been replanned on new sites with the coalescence of population and lands . |
| 12 | In angry self-reproach , Louisa saw how much sooner it should have been evident to her that in identifying so completely with his most noble ancestor , her father had been at pains to exclude all thought of his more immediate and darker legacy . |
| 13 | Since Bartocci had been at pains to emphasize that his comments were ‘ off the record ’ , Zen could of course simply ignore them . |
| 14 | Albert and his young assistant had been at loggerheads for years now . |
| 15 | Such events led greens to suspect that the Forest Service and timber industry people had been in cahoots , trying to determine not only how best to make the plan public , but also how best to ensure its demise . |
| 16 | Bridie had been in tears when Anne called to see her . |
| 17 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 18 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 19 | From what Kate had told her Lizzy had been on amphetamines for a couple of years . |
| 20 | Local opinion was outraged ; Price was brought to trial and would have been convicted by the jury if the judge had not insisted that his offence had been against morals and not against the law . |
| 21 | Some sources said that the clashes had been between members of the fundamentalist Adl wal Ihsan ( " justice and charity " ) group and members of the leftist Kaiyidine group . |
| 22 | Yet many of the children had been in bookshops and knew them not to be so . |
| 23 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I read somewhere of how Steve McQueen had been on drugs the whole time we were shooting Bullitt . |
| 27 | For Constantine , in short , the Messiah was precisely what the Messiah had been for Jews in Palestine at the dawn of the Christian era — a ruler , a sovereign , a warrior leader like David and Solomon , who reigned wisely over a temporal realm , established unity in his domains , consolidated a nation and people with divine sanction to support him . |
| 28 | Since the massacre in Hjaleh Square , the soldiers had been under orders — from the Shah himself — to avoid bloodshed . |
| 29 | A police spokesman confirmed Donald Murphy had been in police custody since last Friday . |
| 30 | It was the first time Ingrid had been under small-arms fire . |