Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 2 | Most of his earlier stage designs had been for opera , and the latest of them , Simon Boccanegra , had been the big hit of the preceding season . |
| 3 | In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made . |
| 4 | Once inside those walls , it really was another world , more than fifteen square kilometres of streets bordered by the crumbling walls of houses , public buildings , cemeteries and reservoirs , some with bits and pieces of bone lying exposed where long-dead looters and grave-robbers had been at work . |
| 5 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 7 | Unusually , one of the schools had been in receipt of two Minor awards in successive years . |
| 8 | Although it was found that the defendants had been at fault , Atkinson J. considered that , irrespective of this , the defendants would have been liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 9 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |
| 10 | One of his worst experiences had been at Sunset just a few days before . |
| 11 | Commentators suggested that the Khmers Rouges had been under pressure from their Chinese backers to accept the Sihanouk plan . |
| 12 | Although railed tramways had been in use in various parts of the country from the middle of the 18th century , generally in connection with coal mines , the first true railway in Scotland was the line from Kilmarnock to Troon . |
| 13 | Both pilots had been off duty for a period of approximately thirty-five hours prior to the trans-Atlantic flight and had flown a total of just over seven hours on the day of the accident . |
| 14 | The depute-fiscal , Ron Phillips , said three of the estate workers had been at risk as they demolished a grain store , working on unsecured planks stretched across the top of 20ft deep bins . |
| 15 | As such , its loss of support was part of the continuing legacy of the Fitzgerald inquiry into corruption within the Queensland government , where the Nationals had been in power for 30 years until defeated in 1989 . |
| 16 | Gqozo later claimed that his troops had been under attack and had acted in self-defence . |
| 17 | Momoh claimed that Burkinabe regular troops had been in action alongside the rebels . |
| 18 | In this case the defendant for many years had been in possession of some artificial ornamental lakes formed by damming up a natural stream . |
| 19 | Atomic shelters had been on sale in the U.S. ( at a cost of $1,995 in 1951 ) since the first Russian atomic bomb . |
| 20 | His first feelings had been of shock and then fear . |
| 21 | The mineworkers had been on strike since Nov. 30 , demanding pay rises of 300-600 per cent . |
| 22 | Already since April 11 railway workers in western Georgia and dockers at the Black Sea ports had been on strike in protest at the presence of Soviet troops in the troubled South Ossetia region . |
| 23 | On the journalists ' evidence , if the directives had been in force during the previous twelve months the effect on air time would have been minimal . |
| 24 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 25 | The Brigade positions had been under attack for the past four days and Nos. 3 , 4 , 6 , and 45 Royal Marine Commando had been having their share of casualties . |
| 26 | but on the occasions that we are concerned with none of The Society 's locos had been in steam so therefore can not be blamed for the incident . |
| 27 | ‘ Some of the breeding monkeys had been at Shamrock for seven or eight years . |
| 28 | A Swiss ban on night driving by lorries had been in force since 1933 . |
| 29 | Prosecuting solicitor Mr Peter Brown said the items had been on TV and in newspapers to try and track the owners . |
| 30 | Whatever their relations had been in life , this was no sacred invitation , since it coincided with her loss of faith in the consolations of religion . |