Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [be] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that happened was a marked decline in the preferential finance made available by parastatal Kenyan banks ( Commonwealth Secretariat , 1985 : p. 26 ) . |
| 2 | And the meal that followed was a veritable banquet . |
| 3 | Luce tried to speak , but all that emerged was a strangled croak . |
| 4 | The fight that ensued was a fair fight and he had no idea until he was arrested at Stoke Row that the unfortunate man had died . |
| 5 | God , that had been a powerful shit . |
| 6 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
| 7 | Because the prodigal son came back , and stopped being a black sheep , and became the accepted son , again . |
| 8 | What he spotted and exploited was a huge gap in the market — the provision of all-in accommodation and entertainment , the all-round holiday package . |
| 9 | This would always give Felix a cheeky look , even when he stopped being a black kid and started being a black man . |
| 10 | MacDonald also had condemned the Lloyd George coalition as corrupt and unprincipled and had been a major beneficiary of its fall . |
| 11 | He was the younger brother of Lajos ' father , and had been a successful export — a businessman who owned a factory . |
| 12 | The owl had been cold and slow and had been a poor meal for the wolf . |
| 13 | He played in every position in the Bangor back-line and had been a regular member of the Ulster squad that swept the boards in the inter-provincial championships in the last nine years . |
| 14 | She was nearly 80 years old at the time and had been a devoted parent and strict catholic all her life . |
| 15 | Mario Solórzano was secretary-general of the Social Democratic Party ( PSD ) and had been a presidential candidate in 1985 . |
| 16 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 17 | 11 And saw heaven opened , and a certain vessel descending unto him , as if had been a great sheet knit at the four comers , and let down to the earth . |