Example sentences of "[art] [noun] had been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has become something of a cause célèbre in rock press folklore , but in truth the NME had been in worse scrapes before and no doubt has many more ahead . |
| 2 | It might have been very nearly normal if the movements had been like that . |
| 3 | Reported cases are small in number , and it may be true that in some ( not all ) of these cases the degree of trauma suffered by the wife is less than if the rape had been by another man ; but abolition of the marital-rape exemption is surely important as a statement of the married woman 's autonomy and freedom of choice in sexual matters . |
| 4 | The Cooperative had been in severe financial difficulties for several years and in 1981 , after its own bank had withdrawn its support , it turned for help to the Canadian Cooperative Credit Society . |
| 5 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 6 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 7 | The boy had been at best lethargic , uncooperative , at worst disruptive to the point of actual physical violence . |
| 8 | Originally the tax had been on each house ( or chimney ) and not a lump sum paid by diocese , and in 1205 Innocent III attempted to get the full amount , seeking Peter 's Pence " from each house that smoke comes out of " . |
| 9 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 10 | ‘ If the business had been in good heart it would have cost you a great deal more . |
| 11 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 12 | The economy had been in serious trouble during 1972 and 1973 . |
| 13 | The barrier had been in perfect order when I arrived — boards secure , nailheads flush — so through I 'd come , tugging it all closed behind me . |
| 14 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 15 | She carried their drinks into the living room and asked Ralph if he had managed to see his solicitor ; the appointment had been at 2 p.m . |
| 16 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 17 | When the incident had been over several minutes , Robert appeared , flustered because Lionel was not yet ready . |
| 18 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 19 | Ballistics experts proved the pellets had been from two air rifles found in Dines ' car . |
| 20 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 21 | The men had been in unknown country , chasing the boar uphill , when the rule is to chase downhill only . |
| 22 | In 1944 the Ingushis and the Chechens had been among several ethnic groups charged en masse with collaborating with the Nazi German invaders and deported to Central Asia . |
| 23 | The last occasion upon which a Canadian Prime Minister had attempted to use the British monarch to alter the composition of the Senate had been in 1874 , when Queen Victoria had rejected a request from Alexander Mackenzie . |
| 24 | In the early stages many of the children had been in residential care for periods of years , had little or no contact with members of the natural family and had lost all serious hope of returning there . |
| 25 | About half the planting under the scheme had been of broadleaved trees or native pinewoods . |
| 26 | Dexter guessed that if the conversation had been in private , Blanche would have said , ‘ He sat down and opened a bottle of Bollinger ‘ 59 actually — what do you think ? ’ |
| 27 | The detainees had been among 115 signatories of an open letter to Siyad Barre which called for a negotiated end to civil war , respect for human and civil rights , and multiparty elections . |
| 28 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 29 | It was also noted by the Court of Appeal , at p. 379C , that the Report of the Review Committee on Insolvency Law and Practice ( 1982 ) ( Cmnd. 8558 ) under the Chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Cork considered that the power , contained in any well-drawn floating charge , to appoint a receiver and manager of the property and undertaking of a company had been of outstanding public benefit . |