Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] [adv] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd just been a cancellation . ’ |
| 2 | There had previously been a plan for gaslit subway streets through which horse-drawn traffic could pass . |
| 3 | There had thus been a level of skill enhancement for work in the classroom , and of skills training and transfer to working with colleagues within the group and others on the staff , and for achieving a mutually educative partnership between teacher and parent . |
| 4 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 5 | Miss Shand added that there had already been a payment of £50,000 by the board , which was not opposing the move for a second payment of the same amount . |
| 6 | During filming in Spain , there had already been a hint of what was to come when a journalist heard about this ‘ controversial ’ picture being made and managed to steal a script from the set , escaping by throwing beer glasses at cast and crew . |
| 7 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |
| 8 | There had already been a kerfuffle over the pornographic ones ; they could n't be included in the facsimile edition and yet at the same time it could hardly be called a complete edition if they were n't there . |
| 9 | She wondered if during that last frenetic occasion when she had seen Sylvie there had already been a premonition of the end . |
| 10 | Before this speech he had carried Neville Chamberlain with him in such rejection , but a week later , when there had already been a period of some pressure against the pound in the foreign exchange markets , Chamberlain thought that events would ‘ beat down Baldwin 's native instinct against coalition ’ . ’ |
| 11 | The transfer of courses from London external to CNAA was by then complete , but there had also been a growth of CNAA part-time law degree courses — at Ealing , Leicester , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle and Wolverhampton — with others in the pipeline . |
| 12 | In recent years , fraud cases involving professionals had received a lot of publicity in Scotland , but there had also been a surge in mortgage and cheque frauds , primarily at the expense of banks . |
| 13 | Yes , she said , there had just been a birth in the house , but the family had gone to stay with cousins in Haryana ; there was now no one at home . |
| 14 | There had even been a phone call the previous day from one of the new Moving Picture companies asking if ‘ Mary O'Neil ’ would like to come out to California ? |
| 15 | There had even been a cassette of fairly slow black-and-white film . |
| 16 | Once there had even been a party of tourists , disturbing the peace with their groans and giggles as they struggled up the steep path from their coach . |
| 17 | She could remember his amazement on learning what she did to earn her living ; there had even been a hint of surprise that she actually needed to . |
| 18 | The west-coast defences given a structure and a system of manning , they moved inland to the key sites at crossroads or ford or defile where , usually , there had long been a hill-fort or an earthwork of some kind . |
| 19 | But there had long been a feeling that Hawaii , birthplace of surfing and home of the biggest waves , should have that honour by right . |
| 20 | There had obviously been a couple of heated arguments , probably to do with the artistic … you know , you get bored with something that you 've done before and you 're working on a new project , and I think he thought that having to wear a suit as opposed to his choice of stage gear can be very nerve-racking . |
| 21 | From nil in 1989 , there had now been a total of 8368 up to mid-July 1991 . |
| 22 | The Muslim community in Bradford , where Yasmin comes from , is very strong , and there had recently been a case which made national news of two Muslim sisters fighting for their right to wear their headscarves to school . |
| 23 | El País of Jan. 19 noted that there had recently been a number of scandals involving allegedly corrupt officials from various political parties in central and local government . |
| 24 | Instead , because his followers were anxious for a fight , he led them against the Auvergne , where there had recently been a conspiracy against him , which he wished to punish . |
| 25 | ( There had earlier been a clash between Dr. Yeats and Lady St. John who had called to inspect the infirmary . |
| 26 | Mother Catherine , the mother superior , a spritely 85-year-old American , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery , which had kept flocks for 20 years . |
| 27 | The Mother Superior , Mother Catherine , 82 , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery . |
| 28 | There had never been a case quite like this in Scotland before . |
| 29 | Nor could it be a cat , for there had never been a cat in the Casa Guidi . |
| 30 | There had never been a hint of any romance between them , although their friendship had deepened with each meeting . |