Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] have [prep] [num ord] [been] " in BNC.
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1 | Are we to jump to the unlikely conclusion that John 's heart has at last been melted by the love of a good woman ? |
2 | Irwin , of course , refused , and Gandhi , whose reaction to Irwin 's initiative had at first been positive , announced that a campaign of civil disobedience would begin . |
3 | The red-brown tentacles of London 's suburbs had at last been shaken off , and the chequered autumn landscape , multi-textured as a cloth collage , unrolled before them in a changing pattern of brown , green and gold , leading them on to Cambridge . |
4 | We also know that ‘ the iron-willed Admiral ’ broke down and cried on hearing that Balboa 's ocean had at last been sighted . |
5 | Finally , the eminent ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte agreed that Audubon 's supremacy had at last been eclipsed . |