Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 2 | By 1341 the Forest of Dean had been diminished by a quarter , and the warden 's farm was reduced from £160 to £120 . |
| 3 | The mile of shining water between him and the Forest of Dean had been devoid of a single ripple . |
| 4 | Since 1914 millions of Russians had been on the move — four to five million away from the advancing armies of the Central Powers ; at least twelve million fleeing into exile during and after the Revolution ; the largest land army in the world manoeuvring , dying , and deserting from the longest front-line in history — to give the major examples alone , with very approximate numbers . |
| 5 | The Zollverein is historically unique because previous unions of states had been military , not economic . |
| 6 | Robert had seen the development in varying stages , and had assisted in shipping out tons of building materials , but it was four months since he had been to Barbados and a lot of progress had been made since then . |
| 7 | A party whose main base of support had been the , the unions and the er union confederations which grew up in industrial cities like Shanghai becomes a party whose main power base is its own Red Army , its own army of peasant guerillas which it itself has created . |
| 8 | One of the chief reasons for its loss of support had been the protracted struggle between Prime Minister David Lange and his Finance Minister , Roger Douglas , the architect of Labour 's laissez faire approach to the economy , colloquially known as " Rogernomics " . |
| 9 | Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt . |
| 10 | Signs of change had been evident within various protest movements , like the Teetotallers , from the 1850s when they realized that without state action they could not achieve their goals . |
| 11 | By May the principle of change had been accepted as inevitable , for once an extension of the franchise had been proposed , it would be suicidal for the party to oppose it , and there was thus a need to concentrate on pressing detailed amendments , for example to protect the interests and representation of agriculture . |
| 12 | ‘ Staff numbers had doubled over the previous five to six years and a programme of change had been thrust upon us by the market , ’ explained . |
| 13 | Timid winds of change had been trying to blow in Spanish universities since 1951 , when a relatively progressive Minister of Education , Joaquin Ruiz-Giménez , had initiated an attempt to revitalize and open up the torpid and reactionary Spanish education system . |
| 14 | For the British delegation , the pace of change proposed was far too hasty . |
| 15 | A task force of experts had been established to advise other countries in anti-drug strategies and the number of drug liaison officers working from UK embassies was being increased to 20 . |
| 16 | The size of crowds assembled was considerable ; although the evidence is impressionistic they must have commonly numbered several hundreds and perhaps , on occasion , more than a thousand . |
| 17 | The thick coils of hair had been pinned up beneath it by a patient Sister Anne , who sighed as she went about her task . |
| 18 | Her head smarted painfully where several strands of hair had been wrenched out by her violent struggles , the fragile material of her shift had torn further , and she was shaking uncontrollably and unable to stand upright . |
| 19 | The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ . |
| 20 | Six of his retainers were put to death at York on the day of his own execution , together with another eleven rebels , including Roger Clifford and John Mowbray , whose claim to the lordship of Gower had been set aside by the king in 1319 . |
| 21 | Attempts by the CP to identify the ILP with the policies of MacDonald had been particularly annoying . |
| 22 | Slovo 's publication of a draft policy programme Has socialism failed ? , revising the former hardline SACP stance to espouse multiparty democracy , received considerable attention , particularly in view of the close alliance between the SACP and the ANC , and the extent to which the threat of communism had been accentuated by the South African regime in its attitude to the ANC in the past . |
| 23 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 24 | Pieces of shirt had been wrapped round their heads . |
| 25 | On Feb. 3 the allies claimed that 25 of the 30 major bridges on routes leading into the Kuwaiti theatre of operations had been destroyed . |
| 26 | US estimates suggested that some 750 Iraqi tanks , 650 artillery pieces and 600 armoured personnel carriers in the Kuwaiti theatre of operations had been destroyed . |
| 27 | But , looking into her face , it did n't seem as if her years of freedom had been particularly kind to her . |
| 28 | A report on the first three months of the system claimed that 77 per cent of contracts had been won by in-house tenders . |
| 29 | By the 1870s , full specialisation of function had been achieved and there were eleven functional clerical departments such as claims , correspondence , finance , lapse , policy registration , and so on . |
| 30 | Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers . |