Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Couple this with the fact that Leeds had been champions the season before , the decline in away fortunes was even more mysterious and worrying . |
| 2 | Both her mother and Lisa had been cross with her ; they both had felt she ought to settle down . |
| 3 | Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 . |
| 4 | All were CPSU members and Yazov , Yanayev and Kryuchkov had been politburo members , though after the reorganization of the party in July 1990 [ see p. 37614-17 ] , following the March abolition of its constitutional monopoly on power [ see p. 37299 ] , government ministers could no longer be on the party 's ruling bodies . |
| 5 | Ukraine and Byelarus had been members since 1945 , the three Baltic states joined in September 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] , Russia assumed the Soviet Union 's seat in December [ see p. 38744 ] , and the eight joining on March 2 were Armenia , Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan . |
| 6 | He was born in London in 1592 , fifth child of a prosperous East Indian merchant at whose house Hawkins , Drake and Raleigh had been visitors . |
| 7 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 8 | John Hasted , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , University of London , and an investigator of the paranormal , was very wary when told that Shaw and Edwards had been fakers ‘ It 's possible that it 's true , ’ he told New Scientist Asked about his conclusions from his own work he said ‘ I accept that there are , shall we say , pulses of paranormal action which take the form of mini-acoustical shock waves . |
| 9 | I had heard it all before and could only think how differently she would be responding if Syl had been Nour . |
| 10 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 11 | ‘ It is as if Woburn and Whipsnade had been trans ported to a fantasy island , ’ said a British ex-pat . |
| 12 | Suzy Levine and Seth had been lovers when he was writing Homeboy , best friends ever since . |
| 13 | It was only sexual jealousy that he felt , after all , because he had convinced himself that she and Florian had been lovers and probably would be again when this was over . |
| 14 | Doguzhiyev ( a member of the small Adygey minority inhabiting the North Caucasus ) and Laverov had been Deputy Premiers . |
| 15 | The Davises had originally come from Grenada and the Carlsons had got to know them because their eldest child and Daryl had been friends at school . |
| 16 | The cohesiveness of the governing coalition was called into question as both Sigua and Kitovani had been part of the Round Table which had had Iosseliani arrested in February 1991 [ see p. 38015 ] . |
| 17 | Even if Lauda had been James 's only opponent , there was no way in which at the beginning of the season James could foresee the possibility of a championship . |
| 18 | Where Modernists like Pound and Eliot had been intruders into island life , the new school of Christian apologists , in every sense that matters , were British bred even when they were not British born . |
| 19 | He justified everything the malais did because FAKOUM had been terrorists . |
| 20 | If you were a " Sir " then the name just after that was your first name , so that must be the surname … and Christian name was easy because Christ had been Jesus Christ , so obviously therefore the Christian name was the second name … and that was how you could tell . |
| 21 | And it had been while McGrath had been features editor that Peace News had carried the spread extolling Ginsberg 's London readings , and the big page feature on the Albert Hall gathering . |
| 22 | Perhaps even when Liawski had been warden , but that was n't something that Reynolds could expect to remember . |