Example sentences of "[noun] had been [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 2 | He had been employed before 1917 in the archives of the foreign ministry and one of his ancestors on his mother 's side had been Russian ambassador in Vienna during the 1814 – 15 congress . |
| 3 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 4 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 5 | The Monastery of Santa de Nogueira had been imported stone by stone from Portugal to the Gila Desert , Arizona , in 1819 , and abandoned after the Mexican-American War . |
| 6 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
| 7 | Heather had been this way before him , had seen and understood what he would shortly see and might yet understand . |
| 8 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 9 | Trade and Industry Secretary Navarro was the head of an accounting firm , while Agrarian Reform Secretary Garilao had been executive director of the Philippine Business for Social Progress , a business-funded foundation established to undertake community projects . |
| 10 | Her last post had been General Secretary to the Association of Headmistresses . |
| 11 | She just knew that a basement room was for sitting in , a children 's ward for visiting , and railway stations had been prime targets for being bombed . |
| 12 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 13 | After all James was of the Stewart dynasty , so called because his ancestor Robert had been High Steward of Scotland , and had succeeded to the throne on the death of David II in 1371 . |
| 14 | The Manchus had been full citizens with diplomatic privileges for more than thirty years now , but there still existed between them and other humans a coldness which could not be explained simply by xenophobia . |
| 15 | The Ypres salient , where since 1914 the Allies had been prime targets for the German guns , had been flattened , leaving only a small salient around Passchendaele itself . |
| 16 | She knew her sons and would bet her last pound that Geoffrey had been awake waiting for something like this . |
| 17 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 18 | Chroniclers and poets in their embittered criticism of papal initiatives for peace were scarcely less vehement than the lords and commons in parliament , and when at last , in 1378 , an Italian pope was elected , an Englishman at Rome rejoiced because ‘ Previous popes and their cardinals had been greater enemies of the kingdom of England than the king of France himself . ’ |
| 19 | From Henry 's recollection of the trial , which was , admittedly , not all that clear , Young had been some kind of chemist . |
| 20 | Mrs Nixon had been honourary chairman of the US committee for the 2,500th anniversary ) . |
| 21 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 22 | These accusations were denied by the government , the BSP , and the Soviet ambassador , Viktor Sharapov , who at a press conference on Aug. 26 said that his only contacts with the government and the BSP had been official ones at which he had delivered the statement of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( the Soviet coup leaders ) and Gorbachev 's subsequent repudiation of it , and had discussed the forthcoming visit to Moscow of a Bulgarian economic mission . |
| 23 | Pablo Merry del Val , whose father had been Spanish Ambassador in London , conducted briefings for the correspondents and censored their dispatches . |
| 24 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 25 | His father had been busy writing about shore larks . |
| 26 | Andréew Fisher had been another contemporary from Sydney and an ability to write , a law degree , and a background in student papers and films made him a choice to handle much of the business side . |
| 27 | Her tears had been angry tears at first , but now they were sad and bitter . |
| 28 | Sangster had been leading owner in this country five times in eight years up to 1985 when Sheikh Mohammed led the Maktoum charge , taking the No. 1 spot four times in row in the past four seasons . |
| 29 | ‘ The river had been ten feet up the previous week and I thing the chub had been pushed into the swim , ’ said Mick , 33 . |
| 30 | Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had been notable guests of the Duke in 1842 , and in 1844 a grand fete was organised by the Duke for the reception of the Emperor of Russia ( mentioned above ) at which the King of Saxony ; the Duke of Wellington and many representatives of the nobility of Britain attended . |