Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So did is an anaphoric verb phrase ; that is to say , its referential properties operate not directly , but indirectly , through a previously mentioned verb phrase , in this case expired last Thursday , which must be re-applied , this time with John as subject . |
| 2 | She was shivering , but it was not with the cold , nor even reaction to what apparently had been a near escape . |
| 3 | The apartment she had been in had been a single room — like his own , spartanly furnished — and she had had to share washing and night-soil facilities . |
| 4 | At this point Joan got a surprise visitor ; Vera Long had been a technical instructor in Occupational Therapy in York area hospitals , and enthused about Joan 's marvellous dogs . |
| 5 | All his kind generally wanted was a quick flirtation , an acquiescent woman , and a no-strings parting the following morning . |
| 6 | Bill was seldom able to put together a consistent run of appearances in our 2nd Division seasons 1921–25 but , when he did play , his graft and pluck were always appreciated by our fans and the press of the time because Palace continually struggled in Division Two and the hard-working , tenacious attitude which Bill always showed was a valuable asset against powerful and more skilled opponents . |
| 7 | He always had been a perfect gentleman . |
| 8 | Although David Cecil was and always had been a devout Christian , he became the favourite candidate of those who resented the ‘ clerical candidate ’ , the man who had been put up by Lewis , just because he was a Christian . |
| 9 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 10 | ‘ Anybody can do anything , ’ Josie said , which she knew was only so much bullshit but which she also believed was a reasonable dictum for getting a person through life . |
| 11 | What I now faced was a small town with a strongly macho bias and an inbuilt resistance to change . |
| 12 | She felt remarkably at ease with this man who only three nights before had been a total stranger . |
| 13 | This conflict led Marx , and especially Engels , to a disastrous attempt to combine both approaches by arguing that there really had been an early stage in human history which was a mirror image of capitalism . |
| 14 | Each stage of the selection process so far had been a complete surprise : the waiting tended to heighten the anticipation and sense of cowed nervousness we all felt . |
| 15 | I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again . |
| 16 | Oh yes , very tasteful , sir , a very speaking likeness I 'm sure , and such tactility in the brushwork , but what we really wanted was a while-you-wait snapshot , a quid the strip of four down the machine . |
| 17 | What he really wanted was a two-tier price structure , with inaccessible places of ‘ secondary importance ’ facing a surcharge . |
| 18 | Today had been a good day . |
| 19 | I remember in eighty four erm there 'd been a general election in eighty three erm there 'd been one third elections in Harlow in , in , in erm i i i in eighty three , there was er a gen the general election and another system of election by thirds in eighty four and then the European election being told by one el elderly lady that there were too many bleeding elections and therefore she was n't gon na vote . |
| 20 | Part of his decision to study abroad had been a personal protest against the ditching of full-blooded socialism by Harold Wilson 's Labour government . |
| 21 | I knew an empty beer keg when I was tied to one , and the last time I 'd seen that particular one there had been a young punk called Emma sitting on it nostrilling certain noxious and probably illegal substances . |
| 22 | A bomb exploded outside the house of Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas in Sana'a on May 15 ; on the night of May 9-10 there had been a similar explosion outside the home of Salim Salih Mohammed , a member of Yemen 's provisional Presidential Council and of the Yemen Socialist Party leadership . |
| 23 | Sergeant Paul McAllister , one of the officers called to the house , said : ‘ It was obvious there had been a physical dispute , although it was over when we arrived . ’ ’ . |
| 24 | Seeing Nicky again had been an unsettling experience , for two reasons . |
| 25 | What he actually offered was a vigorous defence of the mixed economy with a passing assault on Treasury investment rules . |
| 26 | It should be stated , however , that what the carers actually said was a good deal more complex than a simple preference for institutional care . |
| 27 | And there certainly had been a great deal of stress and tension — almost from the first few weeks following their wedding : Lady Nancy Wyndham 's total opposition to their marriage ; her own mother 's sudden untimely death , followed by her father 's long-drawn-out and eventually terminal illness ; the total immersion of Ross in his business affairs , and — the final catalyst — the affair between Ross and his personal assistant , Marissa Kenton . |
| 28 | The one thing he never wanted was an acting career — ‘ I 'd seen that … ’ |