Example sentences of "[num] and [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the system of relief under the Poor Law had changed when the Boards of Guardians were disbanded in 1929 and changes had been made in the unemployment insurance scheme , the principle of not allowing unemployment benefit to exceed a man 's wages was by no means abandoned . |
| 2 | None the less , once war had been renewed in 1449 and Normandy had been recovered , it was time to turn again towards Aquitaine where the English must have felt isolated and apprehensive . |
| 3 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 4 | At Châteauroux on 23 June 1187 Henry II and Philip had been confronted with the problem of whether or not to commit their forces to battle the most difficult and terrible decision to face an army commander — and they had drawn back . |
| 5 | In calculating the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for El , a few pupils used knowledge gained from playing darts : treble 17 was known to be 51 and 51p doubled was 102 , making one 17p too many . |
| 6 | Maguire had been acquitted by a Dublin court in February 1990 and Harte had been extradited from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland in 1988 . |