Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sons had been running short of funds . |
| 2 | I had a little snigger ; it had to be fully ten minutes since the last stroke of eleven , and the thunder had been murmuring dark warnings ever since . |
| 3 | Although the college had been admitting female students in recent years , its outward appearance still succeeded in impressing the visitor with its austere and indefinably masculine grandeur . |
| 4 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 5 | In a report on Hrawi 's tour on June 10 , the ( Phalangist ) Voice of Lebanon radio stated that the President had been seeking Arab support for the implementation of the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] . |
| 6 | Again , I do n't know where they got their information from but I confirmed that the DEA had been running controlled deliveries through Cyprus while I was there and that its operations had been wide open from a security point of view . |
| 7 | It was alleged the car had been doing 50-60mph on the wrong side of the road . |
| 8 | The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work . |
| 9 | That would only be necessary if the troops had been requisitioning other people 's equipment . |
| 10 | The plan contained no provisions for the long-term clean-up that would have been necessary if the tanker had been carrying heavier crude . |
| 11 | Until now , the organisers had been expecting 15,000 participants ( 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials ) , and the Olympic village was constructed with this in mind . |
| 12 | Not unless the climber had been wearing hobnailed boots . |
| 13 | The authority had been hoping Heswallbased developers Dayglobe would buy the Grade Two listed property . |
| 14 | The authority had been hoping Heswallbased developers Dayglobe would buy the Grade Two listed property . |
| 15 | The forest involved in the transaction had been losing substantial sums of money under Guyanese Government management . |
| 16 | The pilot had been flying spare parts to the European frontline when the 2,500 mile trip from Newfoundland ended . |
| 17 | It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 18 | However , the City had been expecting bad figures and the shares rose 15p to 239p . |
| 19 | The Honduran newspaper , La Tribuna , reported that people opposed to the project had been receiving threatening phone calls . |
| 20 | Neither he nor his partner was asked about family backgrounds , possible problems , or whether any of the children had been presenting any unusual symptoms . |
| 21 | The agents had been investigating two terrorist attacks on the Israeli airline , El Al , at Orly airport . |
| 22 | The minister had been giving pastoral counselling to a youth with a disturbed relationship to his parents , particularly his mother . |
| 23 | In support of this , the coordinator had been making extensive use of the County Topic Loan Service , the school library and the adjacent community library . |
| 24 | The pair had been drinking all day and Jones downed more than 10 pints , while Miss Smith , 29 , drank six or seven pints of cider , Nottingham Crown Court was told yesterday . |