Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yet many of the children had been in bookshops and knew them not to be so . |
| 8 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 9 | Since the massacre in Hjaleh Square , the soldiers had been under orders — from the Shah himself — to avoid bloodshed . |
| 10 | Although the report was not published , it convinced Mosley of Jewish dominance in British society and that over half the assaults committed on fascists had been by Jews . |