Example sentences of "had been [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On all sides , both in the government service directly and in its associated echelons of closed institutions , corporations , committees , and ‘ quangos ’ , there had been evidence of a loss of national confidence . |
| 2 | had been kind of , or whatever they are Mr F and then on the back it 's got for Peggy 's six foot high and under plant eighteen inches apart for high six foot plus plant two feet apart |
| 3 | The weather had been kind for Boz 's wedding but it was less so for Tom and Dolly . |
| 4 | There had been publicity for occasional outbursts of violence and bad language or for shocking displays of sexuality , but there had never really been a significant breakthrough in terms of outspoken social statement . |
| 5 | The Irish Industry Minister , Des O'Malley , stressed that a key factor in winning the project had been availability of computer scientists . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal , Lord Donaldson MR taking the high ground that the function of the independent judiciary under the rule of law was simply to decide whether there had been compliance with the statute requiring the holding of a ballot , however unpopular the strike might be with the travelling public . |
| 7 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 8 | We had been bottom of the league in the 1960s and 1970s , but our GDP , business investment and manufacturing productivity grew faster during the 1980s than in Germany , France or many other countries . |
| 9 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 10 | Ecologists had been warning of the possibility of such a conflagration for some time . |
| 11 | There had been dissent over the issue of whether to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections on separate party lists . |
| 12 | He had the medical advice of Sir Daniel Davies , who had been physician to Lloyd George and indeed to a number of misguided dignitaries who were influenced by his great reputation . |
| 13 | Since July 1400 he had been archdeacon of Dorset , absentee but perhaps not without interest . |
| 14 | It said quite plainly , there will be trouble , mademoiselle , and Jenna followed Marguerite into the house that had been home to her father for all those years . |
| 15 | On a few of the more established family units there had been development into quite considerable contracting businesses which enabled the family to continue to live on or around the farm . |
| 16 | Mahgoub , 64 , had been Speaker since 1984 . |
| 17 | He obtained 103,244 votes ( 55.08 per cent ) in the second round , against 84,178 votes ( almost 45 per cent ) for Mohammed Taki , who had been Speaker of the National Assembly between 1980 and 1985 but who now represented the Union nationale pour la démocratie aux Comores ( UNDC ) . |
| 18 | In Russia he had been expert with the knout , no less than the sword . |
| 19 | On the outbreak of war , Prime Minister Asquith formed a coalition government and Herbert Horatio Kitchener — who had been Commander-in-Chief during the Boer wars — was appointed Secretary of State for War . |
| 20 | Klestil , 59 , a career diplomat who had been ambassador to the USA and permanent representative at the UN , would take over the presidency from Kurt Waldheim for a six-year term beginning on July 8 . |
| 21 | William Howe , his father , had been minister of the parish for fifteen years . |
| 22 | Luo Gan had been Minister of Labour from April 1988 , and a member of the State Planning Commission since July 1988 . |
| 23 | Three whites were appointed : Dennis Norman , who had been Minister of Agriculture in 1980-85 ; Chris Anderson , the outgoing Minister of State for Public Service ; and Timothy Stamps , one of five ministers new to the government . |
| 24 | Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs . |
| 25 | Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs . |
| 26 | Velichko had been Minister of Heavy Machine Building . |
| 27 | Mitsuzuka , 63 , had been Minister of Foreign Affairs until Kaifu 's election in August 1989 [ see p. 36849 ] . |
| 28 | A veteran politician , he had been Minister of Labour also during the " hot autumn " of 1969 [ see p. 23941 ] . |
| 29 | He was succeeded on June 22 by Javier Solana Madariaga , 50 , who had been Minister of Education and Science since 1988 and was regarded as a close associate of Prime Minister Felipe González . |
| 30 | Another German atrocity was the execution by firing squad , in 1915 , of Nurse Edith Cavell , who had been matron of a Belgian Hospital in Brussells since 1907 , and had stayed on duty despite the German invasion of that country , and who had been accused by the Germans , of assisting British , French and Belgian soldiers to escape captivity . |