Example sentences of "[noun sg] had been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 2 | There was some speculation that the action had been part of ongoing Israeli efforts to secure the release of servicemen missing in Lebanon . |
| 3 | Yeltsin assured the miners that the transfer had been part of the pact which he and eight other republican leaders had signed with USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev a week earlier [ see p. 38129 ] . |
| 4 | She was the mother and the wife and the queen of the home , as Our Lady had been queen of the little family at Nazareth . |
| 5 | Until this time , the mainstay of treatment for syphilis had been mercury in some form or other , either by internal administration or in the form of unctions . |
| 6 | He was troubled by the strange things the Rannoch eagles had said about the Wrath eagles being exterminated and wondered if his own capture had been part of that . |
| 7 | I remember the amounts because for several years , it was my Saturday job to go to St. Martin 's Church Vestry to collect the money which was paid out by the Parish Clerk , Mr. Daniel Sutton , who before retirement had been Headmaster of the Church School . |
| 8 | Before Rope Thrower subdued the Great Chief Manuelito — among whose lieutenants was Hawk 's many-times-great grandfather Armijo — the Navaho had been herders of horses and cattle , cultivators of corn , pumpkins , wheat and melons and famous for their groves of peach trees . |
| 9 | It had been a bitter pill to swallow , and she had made her feelings plain to the man her husband had been friends with since his childhood . |
| 10 | Trouble was that Mrs Sharon Rogers ' husband had been commander of the U. S. S. Vincennes . |
| 11 | The decision to remove exchange controls had an unexpected bearing on the progress of the campaign against Imelda Marcos , whom the government was prosecuting on corruption charges relating to the years in which her late husband had been President of the Philippines . |
| 12 | Gamsakhurdia was elected by the Georgian Supreme Soviet on April 14 to the new post of executive President of Georgia ( his previous title had been Chair of the Supreme Soviet ) . |
| 13 | Bard had been president of the $185m-a-year Integrated Systems Division of Computer Science Corporation which he ran since 1984 . |
| 14 | In the budget for 1992 announced on Jan. 20 , 1992 , spending on education had been increases by 19 per cent over the previous year . |
| 15 | Say had been Treasurer since 1449 , so the attacks on him link local grievances with general hostility to the court . |
| 16 | More than likely , Emily 's absence last night had been part of the reason that she had reacted so ridiculously to Alexander Vass . |
| 17 | Recounting the history of Bilmarsh farm , Gough observed : ‘ Nathaniell Reve had a desire to been tenant of this farme , because his grandfather and father had been tenants to it before ’ . |
| 18 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 19 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 20 | George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books . |
| 21 | To commemorate the visit , the Prime Warden the next year , Mr. John Prideaux ( whose father had been Clerk at the time of the 450th Anniversary ) , called at the School in April with designs of a second cup and cover , which was commissioned by the Company from Miss Jocelyn Burton and was presented to the Chairman and Headmaster in July 1974 . |
| 22 | The June 29 announcement on privatization had been part of a package of economic measures designed to curb the budget deficit in line with the March IMF agreement . |
| 23 | So that if our speaker for example had been John from the Halifax Building Society he would only be talking about Global Investments . |
| 24 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 25 | She was as much their victim as the naked flesh she had seen in that bleak vision had been victim to the flail . |
| 26 | Most of the transmission had been pictures of malai soldiers back home in malai-land , strumming guitars in their uniforms , singing with their arms round each other , carrying kids , helping old ladies . |
| 27 | The Irish Industry Minister , Des O'Malley , stressed that a key factor in winning the project had been availability of computer scientists . |
| 28 | Rezzag Bara , chairman of a commission of inquiry into the assassination in June of President Mohammed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 , said on Algerian television on Dec. 10 that the killing had been part of a wider conspiracy serving the interests of radical Moslem movements . |
| 29 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 30 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |