Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only all school trips had been like this . |
| 2 | According to Mills , the United States had been through five epochs . |
| 3 | For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death . |
| 4 | A Maniak chapter had been through last week , and one or two of them were still around , enjoying the yakuza hospitality at the ze Schluderpacheru place . |
| 5 | I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children |
| 6 | As fast as he undid them I did them up again , so that when he got to my waist and sighed he recoiled with indignation and astonishment to find that his labour had been in vain . |
| 7 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 8 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 9 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 10 | It was awkward , too , from the sales point of view , that Richard had been aboard one of these barges when he got knocked over the head . |
| 11 | Reported cases are small in number , and it may be true that in some ( not all ) of these cases the degree of trauma suffered by the wife is less than if the rape had been by another man ; but abolition of the marital-rape exemption is surely important as a statement of the married woman 's autonomy and freedom of choice in sexual matters . |
| 12 | Gen. Marin Neagoe , a former divisional chief of the Securitate security forces , was imprisoned for seven years on May 29 for his role in suppressing the riots ; on May 10 the former Securitate chief Julian Vlad had been among those sentenced to prison terms of up to five years [ see p. 38207 ] . |
| 13 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 14 | On the other hand , Memet had been to public school , so that had probably finished him off … |
| 15 | Dr Curtis had been in four times . |
| 16 | In July , Tilden Barham , the Battle relieving officer , was carried out of the parish as his Brede counterpart had been in 1830 , a fate shared with the officer at Willingdon , who was led out by jeering women and children . |
| 17 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 18 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 19 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 20 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
| 21 | She supposed most normal people in a situation like the one she and Alan had been in all day , would have ended up in bed together , here in this comfortable bed at Rose Cottage . |
| 22 | The health care issue had been of growing concern in the USA both because of its cost ( 12 per cent of GNP compared with around 8 per cent for most other industrialized countries ) , and its effect of binding employees to their employers through the fear of losing their health insurance , thereby making the job market less flexible and deterring people from starting new businesses . |
| 23 | The most recent public execution in Albania had been in 1986 . |
| 24 | Perhaps Bad Schwarzendorn had been in Allied hands by then . |
| 25 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |
| 26 | The boy had been at best lethargic , uncooperative , at worst disruptive to the point of actual physical violence . |
| 27 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 28 | Two-thirds were in less-developed countries , whereas five years previously about half the world 's known HIV infections had been in developed countries ( mostly in the USA ) . |
| 29 | It might have been very nearly normal if the movements had been like that . |
| 30 | P. G. Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster had been like that , in the Jeeves stories ; so was Tony Last in Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , a model country gentleman who loses child , wife , estate and ultimately England itself , marooned as surely as Crusoe in an inland jungle where he is forced to read Dickens 's novels to an illiterate half-caste . |