Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] been an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been an uneasy truce , a kind of businesslike friendliness while the matter of the fair at the Palazzo Parisio was handled and finalised . |
| 2 | But this time there 'd been an unfortunate accident — the worker had been distracted and had applied the blow torch to a pipe opening just as the varnish was starting to flow . |
| 3 | Since publication last year of the Pwllheli Tourism Action Plan , said Mr Lewis , there had been an increased level of activity in the implementation of the LEAD Initiative , launched by the Wales Tourist Board in 1989 . |
| 4 | On Tuesday night , the company held back from issuing dismissal notices until after yesterday 's meeting , but Mr McLevy said there had been an overwhelming vote , with only four against , to reject the Timex proposals . |
| 5 | There had been an almighty family row a fortnight before : Tristram had remarked that she was overworked and that they could easily afford a servant , and Harry had taken exception to the suggestion . |
| 6 | The Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency reported from Kinshasa on Jan. 7 that there had been an abortive coup attempt the previous month , as a result of which a number of high-ranking officers were said to have been imprisoned . |
| 7 | News reports in December indicating that there had been an attempted coup were subsequently dismissed by Jawara as groundless rumours . |
| 8 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 9 | Local elections held on May 27 were Poland 's first completely free multiparty elections since before the Second World War ( in the parliamentary elections of June 1989 there had been an agreed distribution of seats in the Sejm ( the lower house of the National Assembly ) among the former ruling parties and opposition or independent candidates — see pp. 36722-24 , and some opposition groups had been denied registration to compete as parties ) . |
| 10 | Finally , beginning with the resolution of the Saar issue , there had been an increasing rapprochement between France and West Germany . |
| 11 | Police at Antrim Road RUC station said there had been an increasing number of break-ins in the Oldpark and Cliftonville districts . |
| 12 | It was clear that there had been an implicit agreement to hold back output until a higher price was fixed . |
| 13 | Although there had been an appreciable rise in incomes , supplies in the state shops continued to be poor , encouraging a growing black market [ for clampdown in August against black marketeers see p. 37665 ] . |
| 14 | Perhaps the development of most interest to us in 1854 was that on an American initiative there had been an international conference at Brussels on shortening ship 's passages by producing better charts of winds and currents . |
| 15 | Mainly under the influence of Pietro Bembo , the codifier of the Tuscan speech as the literary language of Italy in his Prose della Volgar Lingua ( 1525 ) , there had been an extraordinary revival of interest in Petrarch and the patrons of the frottola-composers , such as the Mantuan Duchess Isabella d'Este , asked them for settings of Petrarch 's sonnets and strophic canzoni . |
| 16 | He accepted there had been an unofficial quota system to limit the number of women serving in the department . |
| 17 | There had been an enormous increase in the accuracy and destructiveness of all munitions , owing to the introduction of information technologies . |
| 18 | There had been an enormous loss of jobs , and many of the younger and more mobile had left — sometimes voluntarily and sometimes through planned dispersal — to peripheral public-housing schemes . |
| 19 | This feature of the company together with the increasing substitution of the organization of economic activity within the company rather than through the markets suggested that there had been an enormous growth in the power of corporate management . |
| 20 | Traders said there had been an initial bout of panic at the prospect of the meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries finishing without a deal on output levels . |
| 21 | 8.1.4 any other act or thing by which but for this provision the Guarantor would have been released [ other than a variation of the terms of this Lease agreed between the parties that is prejudicial to the Guarantor ] Until the case of P & A Swift Investments v Combined English Stores Group plc it was believed that the benefit of a guarantor 's covenants could only be enforced by a successor in title to the landlord 's reversion , where there had been an express assignment to it . |
| 22 | It was far from clear to the pope how this could have been transmitted to the whole human race unless there had been an historical Adam and Eve , that is , a single set of parents . |
| 23 | There had been an active training group for a few years . |
| 24 | There had been an active training group in the area for six years , and there was a veterinary practice which had actively promoted and participated in training . |
| 25 | There had been an immense row inside ICI , and it had been agreed that a mission should be sent round the world to investigate the actuality of the situation . |
| 26 | There had been an important group of Neville associates further south , centred on Sir William Parr of Kendal . |
| 27 | There had been an important group of Neville associates further south , centred on Sir William Parr of Kendal . |
| 28 | ( The first Yugoslav report of unrest in Shkodër had appeared on Dec. 19 , when a Serbian newspaper claimed that a few days earlier there had been an anti-government demonstration involving " a large number of people " . |
| 29 | According to Indian Army statistics , at least 1,100 Indian soldiers and 2,200 Tamil fighters had been killed in the 32 months of fighting since the IPKF 's July 1987 arrival ; other estimates put the losses higher , and there had been an unknown number of civilian casualties . |
| 30 | It had been a well-known fact that their last medical officer had spent little time studying new methods of health and safety and accident prevention and there had been an ever-present air of friction between himself and Ron Banks . |