Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those on benefit half had been in receipt for more than 2.6 years . |
| 2 | Most of the young people had suffered several foster placement breakdowns , and some had been in trouble with the law . |
| 3 | Shalikashvili was currently senior assistant to the chair of the US joint chiefs of staff ( Gen. Colin Powell ) and in 1991 had been in charge of the operation to protect the Kurdish population in northern Iraq . |
| 4 | Our source remains adamant that Mr Hoy did say that Channel 7 had been in contact with the Institute . |
| 5 | In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party . |
| 6 | These had been in Rome since at least the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | Sixteen had been at Oxford or Cambridge , as had the Prime Minister . |
| 8 | The terms of exchange between manufacturers and agricultural produce moved swiftly to the disadvantage of the towns ; a pair of boots which in 1913 had been worth 283lb. of rye flour was worth as little as 133lb. by May 1922 . |
| 9 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 10 | Jack Handy had been with McKinsey in the 1930s before setting up his own management consultancy and ‘ executive recruitment ’ business as early as 1944 . |
| 11 | Coopers ' letter adds : ‘ We confirm that , if FRS 3 had been in effect at the date of signing the audit opinion on the 1991 financial statements , and the relevant reclassifications had been made , together with the adjustment for goodwill described above , the audit opinion would not have been qualified . ’ |
| 12 | The called up share capital disclosed in the Balance Sheet fro the group at 31st March 1990 has been presented on the basis that the 1,320,000 ordinary shares of 25p each issued on the merger with Model Manufacturing Ltd had been in issue at 31st March 1990 . |
| 13 | With the possible exception of Fulford and Halwell , all the men concerned had been in Edward IV 's household . |
| 14 | With the possible exception of Fulford and Halwell , all the men concerned had been in Edward IV 's household . |
| 15 | As Elector of Hanover George I had been at war with Charles XII of Sweden , one of the outstanding soldiers of his time , since October 1715 and England now became involved due to the frequent presence of an English fleet in the Baltic , which the Swedes were inclined to regard , as the English did the Channel , as a private sea of their own . |
| 16 | Richards , who admitted United had been in touch with Francis , revealed : ‘ Alex Ferguson also telephoned me and suggested talks at chairman level might be useful . |
| 17 | Graveney explained that his comments in 1987 had been about events during the 1951 England tour of Pakistan . |
| 18 | In 1951 the World Peace Pagoda was built , and in 1954 the Sixth Great InternatIonal Council of Buddhist monks and learned laity was opened ( the fifth had been at Mandalay in 1871 under the patronage of King Mindon ) . |
| 19 | But that had been for women with no man to protect them , so they had to do whatever they could and were respected for it . |
| 20 | That had been before Dr Spock . |
| 21 | Public health officials did all in their power to stop the 1964 pie going ahead ; there was a typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen in the 1960 's and it was found that the last serious epidemic before that had been in Denby Dale in the 1930's , and the infection can linger for many years . |
| 22 | That had been in May 1970 , almost six years after the end of Emor . |
| 23 | All told , of the forty-six male English lord lieutenants in 1990 , no less than thirty had been at Eton . |
| 24 | After the er Police Act nineteen sixty four had been in force for some years and when the government of the day which you supporters in the nineteen seventies and later , tried to erm modify it in order to er make a dovetail with local government reforms which we supported . |
| 25 | Two of these Mrs Rose could trace but the third had been with Crabb when they said goodbye and was not amongst his personal possessions returned to Crabb 's mother by ‘ Smith ’ . |
| 26 | Both had been in detention without charge or trial since their arrest following the coup d'état which brought Hafez al-Assad to power in November 1970 . |
| 27 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc had been in discussions with Novell Inc for a NetWare client for its Open Desktop products — see front page — but those talks are more or less canned now that SCO thinks it 'll be able to get the same stuff through COSE . |