Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [be] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the special character combinations had been replaced the file was iteratively refined . |
| 2 | The Secte Rouge guards had been charging the Marines with their machetes , to little effect , though a couple of Marines had gone down . |
| 3 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |
| 4 | Up to then the UK and Irish entries had been fighting a tooth and nail contest . |
| 5 | After a dress rehearsal for a Symphony Hour show , I suggested , as producer , that in the adagio movement of the main symphonic item the violins had been taking the tempo slightly too fast . |
| 6 | Since mid century , philanthropists and social reformers had been urging the removal of the population of the inner-city slums to the more salubrious outskirts of the city . |
| 7 | The patrol of four unarmoured Land Rovers had been testing the safety of a Serb-held route to the northern town of Tuzla . |
| 8 | The engineers had been investigating a fault with overhead cables in the field at Bromyard in Herefordshire . |
| 9 | One dealer of the author 's acquaintance would keep telling his clients : " There 's been a lot of buying this morning " when what he really meant was the dealers had been selling the stock all morning . |
| 10 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 11 | One of Chaovalit 's many Cabinet responsibilities had been to head the government 's Counter Corruption Commission ( CCC ) . |
| 12 | Writers , poets and bards had been telling the stories for centuries but it was not until the Victorians that a visual interpretation was recorded and that was essentially romantic and ill-informed . |
| 13 | Department officials had been monitoring the convoy which spent about two weeks at a roadside halt near Ardglass before slipping into Downpatrick overnight . |
| 14 | The Dorset industry must have continued from its Pre-conquest days up to the moment of expansion ; its potters had been supplying the army in the middle of the first century , as is evident from Waddon Hill ( Webster , 1960 , 93 , 95 ; 1965 , 142 ) . |
| 15 | But the officers had been given no orders to occupy these positions , so they simply returned to their lines to await instructions . |
| 16 | The officers had been plotting a map , in changing colours , to show how the contras were fading out of Nicaragua ; suddenly it reversed its trend , and they were back . |
| 17 | Ross Chisholm , head of local planning and transport , said officers had been studying the effect of the traffic restrictions since they were introduced . |
| 18 | This act left him with an interest in the company that was for most practical purposes worthless since the previous practice among the three member-directors had been to take the money out of the firm in the form of directors ' fees rather than shareholders ' dividends . |
| 19 | After some initial problems had been overcome the Garratts were outstandingly successful , running on all gauges from 2 feet to 5 feet 6 inches on gradients up to 1 in 20 or more , usually at modest speeds on heavily curved and graded routes , but capable of 75–80 m.p.h. on the Algerian expresses which were headed by probably the fastest articulated locomotives ( 4–6–2+2–6–4 ) ever built . |
| 20 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 21 | All day the riddle of the wrecked laundry basket in the showers had been exercising the teacher 's faculty of deduction . |
| 22 | IF THE inflation figures had been published a couple of days earlier , the Labour party would no doubt have made the most of a fall which was far short of expectations . |
| 23 | The stretchers had been brought the couple of hundred yards from the hospital . |
| 24 | On Nov. 16 he testified before a parliamentary committee that orders had been given a month previously to freeze " Operation Gladio " . |
| 25 | The ghillies had been gathering the herds into the area for days . |
| 26 | Park official Fred Haala said some trippers had been harassing the crocodile . |
| 27 | The craftsmen of the local Guilds had been performing a play on the Feast of Corpus Christi for eighty years . |
| 28 | All hospital patients had been given a diagnosis of primary depression uncomplicated by any underlying condition such as alcoholism , but were also given a full clinical interview ( PSE ) by the research psychiatrist . |
| 29 | This result was not unexpected , given the relatively short period these patients had been following the gluten free diet before entering the protocol . |
| 30 | Less generous names suggested were Wiping the Slate Clean , and We 're Only Making Holds for Nigel . |