Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems a particularly harsh result where the person assaulted was in plain clothes , and it may be doubted whether it can be justified in principle . |
| 2 | The sample used was of large companies that were known to be at the leading edge in terms of corporate planning practices . |
| 3 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 4 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 5 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 6 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 7 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 8 | ‘ They 'd been to other schools and the standard is high ? |
| 9 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 10 | She 'd been to three lectures . |
| 11 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 12 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 13 | This time he did n't miss , he shot past Stowell and United were on level terms , amazingly , they almost snatched the lead a minute later when a brilliant save by Stowell denied Simpson once again . |
| 14 | Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books . |
| 15 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 16 | The largest flock noted was of 60 birds , but parties of up to 20 are much more usual and many records are of single birds . |
| 17 | ‘ But the child you abducted was of six years of age and although the period of abduction was short and the child came to no harm , this was a crime , particularly now , of the most serious kind . ’ |
| 18 | The years that followed were in many respects his heyday . |
| 19 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 20 | Because both ends of the Thornton Heath route on which they now worked were in congested streets , two trolley poles were fitted , one for each direction of travel . |
| 21 | The contractions recorded were of varying amplitudes , and Cook et al 's tracings show good reproduction by the open tipped tube recordings of both the shape and amplitudeof contractions measured from the serosal strain gauges throughout a wide range of amplitudes . |
| 22 | But unlike the Towyn flood , areas hit were in large pockets spread around Aberconwy . |
| 23 | Analysis of prehistoric artefacts has shown that the metal worked was of varying degrees of purity . |
| 24 | It was developed originally to promulgate priestly or legislative initiatives , and since these were collective and in some sense impersonal productions , what the writer meant was to all intents and purposes recoverable from what he wrote down . |
| 25 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 26 | Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other . |
| 27 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 28 | The first observation I was able to make when the books were gathered together was that , although almost all the press coverage had been about public libraries , since they were the focus of political controversy , only c . |
| 29 | About half the planting under the scheme had been of broadleaved trees or native pinewoods . |
| 30 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |