Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adj] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 2 | Lynall Urwick put forward a counter-argument that a wide span of control had been possible in this example because the work of the merchandising managers did not interlock , and so the need for coordination and integration was not present : this reduced the burdens of supervision and made a wider span of control feasible . |
| 3 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 4 | Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition . |
| 5 | All three of the speakers presenting papers had been involved in this review and discussed different aspects in their contributions . |
| 6 | They had been close like this before but not at Felipe 's instigation . |
| 7 | Now if anything had been wrong with this shaft we used to have to go to the other shaft and ride that rope you see ? |
| 8 | She was not going to fall in love with him , but even as she said this vehemently to herself , Sara was afraid that she had already gone over the precipice she had been conscious of this morning . |
| 9 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 10 | I think , in fact , that he had been aware of this property of the area . |
| 11 | As to the wider dissemination of culture , the few cells that had been active in this respect seemed to equate success with the regular dispatch of newspapers and made no personal contacts to follow this up . |
| 12 | You could n't have expected it , he had been doubtful about this day from the beginning . |
| 13 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 14 | What she never admitted was that in the beginning , she had been terrified of this new mode of travel and the first few miles had been passed with her eyes tightly closed and her lips moving in prayer . |
| 15 | They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world . |