Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An older age group of superior tradesmen here and there — the public bar fraternity shunned the place , for this had been for many years the snob pub of Belgravia . |
| 2 | Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar . |
| 3 | Of these by-election gains more than half had been in straight fights , the implications of which were unmistakable . |
| 4 | A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education . |
| 5 | The only challenge to Thatcher since she first became leader in February 1975 had been in 1989 , when she had received the support of 314 of the then 374 Conservative MPs ( who formed the electorate ) against 33 for Sir Anthony Meyer , with 24 ballot papers being spoiled and three MPs not participating [ see p. 37134 ] . |
| 6 | Immediately after the war , the Department of Antiquities in Baghdad compiled a four-volume list of missing objects ; many of these had been on long term loan from the Baghdad Museum to regional museums in Iraq . |
| 7 | From a random group of 36 judges of the Court of Appeal and the High Court , he found that 31 had been to public schools ( 86 per cent ) and 33 to Oxford or Cambridge ( 92 per cent ) . |
| 8 | All had been in vain . |
| 9 | That had been at 8.40 . |
| 10 | Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital . |
| 11 | Of the Bank 's new lending in fiscal 1991 , $5,200 million had been to Latin America and the Caribbean , $3,400 million to Africa , $7,500 million to Asian countries , and $6,600 million to Europe , the Middle East and North Africa . |
| 12 | Only thirty-four had been to other secondary schools , scarcely more than the number from the second most popular public school , Harrow . |
| 13 | None had experienced higher education , but 19 had been on some form of post-16 provision . |