Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [vb past] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Etna has two summit craters , the Main Crater and the North-East Crater ( both lying along the line of a fissure ) , and the North-East Crater had been showing mild Strombolian activity for many years prior to the 1971 eruption . |
| 2 | She had not been surprised to learn that the accountant Morris had been proved innocent of any crime and had pointed the finger at Spencer Grenfell . |
| 3 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 4 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 5 | The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia . |
| 6 | Even the small river Slea had been made navigable for light craft and Sleaford had benefited from ‘ a cheap and easy transit for corn , coal , timber , stone , lime and other merchandise , to and from Boston , Lincoln and other places ’ . |