Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Widnes general manager Frank Myler , insisted that no club had been in contact regarding a possible move by Davies from Naughton Park . |
| 2 | ‘ I was angry and upset to read that somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 3 | Crosby blew his top after learning of the Coppell link and said yesterday : ‘ I was angry and upset to read somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 4 | The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results . |
| 5 | It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge . |
| 6 | The entry had been by invitation and restricted to forty-eight amateurs and forty-eight professionals . |
| 7 | At the same time a change in the industrial mix had been in progress with traditional energy intensive industries in decline and service-based , high technology industries on the increase . |
| 8 | Mr Fallon said he had talked to the longest serving officials in his department who said the expansion rule had been in place as long as they had been there . |
| 9 | The Wackersdorf reprocessing complex had been under construction for seven years behind barricades . |
| 10 | The future of the Swiss nuclear industry had been in doubt for a number of years , particularly since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union [ see pp.34460-62 ] , and in 1988 the government had halted plans to build a nuclear power station at Kaiseraugst near Basel [ see p. 36499 ] . |
| 11 | Once , not long ago , an old film called National Velvet had been on television and when the young Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the screen he had at once been sharply reminded of Mary — and had exited , not with the escape key but with the switch on the set . |
| 12 | The formation of a Franco-German military force had been under discussion for several years , and a 4,000-strong brigade had been agreed in principle in November 1987 [ see p. 35665 ; 35913 ] and started operations in October 1990 [ see p. 38473 ] . |
| 13 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 14 | Forces opposed to the President had been in control of much of the country for several months [ see pp. 37702-03 ; 37767-68 ; 37844-45 ] , with the central government 's authority largely confined to the area around the capital . |
| 15 | Cicero , whose stamina had been in doubt , could not keep his place and dropped away , but Bachelor 's Button and Pretty Polly — the mare on the stands side , her rival on the far side — were closing rapidly on the leader . |
| 16 | Asked how the princess had been during lunch , Lord Healey said : ‘ The princess was wonderful . |
| 17 | Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm . |
| 18 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 19 | Gregory Pincus , the ’ father ’ of the birth control Pill ( whose previous work had been in IVF ) , decided to go into family planning after he was convinced of a ’ population explosion ’ . |
| 20 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 21 | It is fascinating to study the way that they bent the truth to promote a saleable product , yet even if the Trades Descriptions Act had been in force then , they would hardly ever have broken the law . |
| 22 | Within the German Social Democratic Party the issue had been in dispute for some time . |
| 23 | With equal determination , Annie was making it clear by chatting away happily to Ibn Fayoud and his schoolgirl friend that it would be rude to leave before the dancing had been under way for half an hour or so . |
| 24 | Our original plan had been to film on Lake Karakul , 50 miles to the north-west . |
| 25 | little boy had been to school and his mother and father was waiting for him to come home . |
| 26 | A report by Helmut Schlesinger made public on Sept. 30 indicated that the greater part of the DM44,000 million of " compulsory DM sales " by the Bundesbank in the week when the pound and the lira withdrew from the ERM had been in support of sterling ( this figure apparently excluding operations conducted on Sept. 22-23 when the franc was under particular pressure — see below ) . |
| 27 | Talks between Russia and Ukraine on Ukraine 's withdrawal from the rouble zone had been in progress since June ( for RCB-government conflict see p. 39057 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Even though the site is only a second option , Councillor William Bleakes urged the council 's planning committee not to allow the matter to rest , and Alderman Samuel Semple pointed out the site had been under consideration since 1976 . |
| 30 | The County Council I full well remember some four years ago made a decision that once a site had been in peril , once a decision was made it should n't be brought back into the arena again . |