Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses . |
| 2 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 3 | The first few months had been sheer bliss . |
| 4 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
| 5 | This image of a pion transmuting was as important to particle physics as Rutherford 's discovery of the transmutation of the elements had been 40 years earlier . |
| 6 | " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . " |
| 7 | He was a countryman at heart , and although these past weeks had been tremendous fun , it was lovely to see the grass and trees and a blue sky unclouded by smoke . |
| 8 | She just knew that a basement room was for sitting in , a children 's ward for visiting , and railway stations had been prime targets for being bombed . |
| 9 | The Manchus had been full citizens with diplomatic privileges for more than thirty years now , but there still existed between them and other humans a coldness which could not be explained simply by xenophobia . |
| 10 | Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important medieval borough ; other places had been small market centres whose burgesses had obtained some measure of independence from their manorial lords . |
| 11 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 12 | The Ypres salient , where since 1914 the Allies had been prime targets for the German guns , had been flattened , leaving only a small salient around Passchendaele itself . |
| 13 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 14 | The Taylor report found some responsibility for the tragedy lay with the stadium 's management , some with the fans and some with the South Yorkshire police , and suggested that senior officers had been dubious witnesses . |
| 15 | Chroniclers and poets in their embittered criticism of papal initiatives for peace were scarcely less vehement than the lords and commons in parliament , and when at last , in 1378 , an Italian pope was elected , an Englishman at Rome rejoiced because ‘ Previous popes and their cardinals had been greater enemies of the kingdom of England than the king of France himself . ’ |
| 16 | How different things had been last spring , for all their difficulties . |
| 17 | ( In Aeschylean tragedy ) the characters had been eternal types representing the universal laws implicit in myth . |
| 18 | In the 1920s and 1930s , doctors in the UK and USA began to realize that a very high proportion of their lung cancer patients had been heavy smokers . |
| 19 | Ludens had been busy helping Irina , what to take , what to buy , how to pack . |
| 20 | Her tears had been angry tears at first , but now they were sad and bitter . |
| 21 | Even in Palestine , where the Persians had been good rulers , there had been troubles , if our confused evidence is to be trusted at all ( c . |
| 22 | Its last human inhabitants had been two journalists , engaged on an exercise to test their powers of self-sufficiency . |
| 23 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 24 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 25 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 26 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 27 | But , with some few exceptions , the main results had been disputatious wrangling . |
| 28 | Twentieth Century Fox executive Tom Sherak estimated the return would have been £25 million-plus if all tickets had been full price . |
| 29 | The Supreme Court on March 4 formally recognized that 61 workers sentenced in December 1987 for their role in the Brasov riots had been political prisoners of the former Communist regime . |
| 30 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |