Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pers pn] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make . |
| 2 | Can I just ask , would it be different if it had been a military aircraft ? |
| 3 | This may be made worse if the patient feels stigmatized because he has been a psychiatric inpatient . |
| 4 | — Edwardian working-class sport as a whole was less violent than it had been a half-century before . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've been a bit below par this evening , ’ she apologised . |
| 6 | He was taken aback , and more confused than he 'd been a moment ago . |
| 7 | The garden is so large because it had been a ‘ deese ’ , meaning , in Sussex parlance , a drying ground for herring ; dried they became bloaters for which Rye is famed . |
| 8 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 9 | So he called me up and asked me if I wanted to play it , which was incredibly flattering because I 'd been a fan of his for such a long time . |
| 10 | HOW DO you follow up your first single when it 's been a Number One ? |
| 11 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |