Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tory Derek Lamberth said closure plans had been on the agenda for two years . |
| 2 | Since enemy planes had been over the village , ‘ they have all lost their heads ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such events led greens to suspect that the Forest Service and timber industry people had been in cahoots , trying to determine not only how best to make the plan public , but also how best to ensure its demise . |
| 5 | In the run-up to the elections Fujimori sought to present himself to the public as the defender of democracy , claiming that opposition politicians had been behind a coup attempt on Nov. 13 aimed at preventing the CCD elections from taking place and restoring the 1979 Constitution . |
| 6 | In the event the conviction for capital murder was affirmed on the ground that ( the evidence being overwhelming ) there had been no miscarriage of justice , despite the majority 's view that the trial judge had been in error . |
| 7 | 5–9- " There was laid on the table a minute of the Deacons ' Court of date from which it appeared that the subject of the conversion of the Schoolhouse into dwelling houses had been under consideration , and that the Court had agreed to submit the proposal to the congregation for its opinion . " |
| 8 | In his reply , the Chief Executive told Councillor Matheson that the Social Work Department had been in the process of compiling guidelines when ‘ the present difficulties ’ arose . |
| 9 | No wonder Matthew had been like a man awaiting sentence . |
| 10 | Indeed , contrary to MAFF 's stubbornly held views that the LFA Directive can not be used to support conservation except as an ancillary to agricultural development , the then Minister of Agriculture , Mr Peter Walker , answered a question in the House on 10 December 1981 on how successful the LFA Directive had been in encouraging production in the UK . |
| 11 | In a pre-Forum meeting between Australia and New Zealand , Australia expressed concern over the continuing allegations of human rights abuses by Papua New Guinea on Bougainville , where a secessionist guerrilla war had been in progress since 1989 . |
| 12 | The coffee made by that blasted mother 's boy Sartini had been like water as usual and the Brigadier himself had n't had time to go home and shave . |
| 13 | Three months Doña Ximena had been in Valencia , when tidings came to the Cid from beyond sea , that King Yucef , the son of the Miramamolin , who dwelt in Morocco , was coming to lay siege unto Valencia with fifty thousand men . |
| 14 | The Soren Larsen , which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line had been in dry dock for seven months . |
| 15 | Forty-six Law Lords had been to Oxford or Cambridge , seven to Scottish universities , four to Trinity College Dublin , two to London University ( one of whom had also been to Cambridge ) and one to Queen 's Belfast . |
| 16 | Earlier this week , he asked how effective the flood defences had been on February 20 and what changes to policy , investment programme and evacuation procedures were planned . |
| 17 | She and her husband Felix had been around the London underground since its birth , apart from a sojourn in the backwater of Munich . |
| 18 | An inquiry found that the vintage plane had been in good working order . |
| 19 | I refer not only to the substantial amount of money that was made available , resulting in a £45 per week rise for nursing homes , which cost us a total of £225 million , but to the amendment that allowed the Secretary of State , after community care had been in place for some time , to take account of the local authorities ' assessments of reasonable rates and of their experiences in general . |
| 20 | Consequently , the majority of participants in the group discussion had been in coal mining but now had jobs as unskilled workers in factories . |
| 21 | Previously , this lecture series had been on the history of rhetoric from classical times , but I decided to redesign the course , dealing with literary language ( especially poetry ) from a modern linguistic point of view . |
| 22 | David and Julia and the other court personnel had been in their appointed seats for an hour and a half before the proceedings began . |
| 23 | Considering how long the formation of Deacon Gray had been in the pipeline , the eventual timing might seem strange . |
| 24 | The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) . |
| 25 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 26 | According to a friend Patricia had been to two fortune tellers recently . |
| 27 | He and his wife Charlotte had been in their early forties when they had married six years before . |
| 28 | The Wackersdorf reprocessing complex had been under construction for seven years behind barricades . |
| 29 | The Lord Chancellor had been in a position to negotiate this with the Treasury . |
| 30 | ‘ Some of the breeding monkeys had been at Shamrock for seven or eight years . |