Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [be] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roz Hatch had been a real looker in her time , and the family portrait said one thing to Cowley above all else : we stick together . |
| 2 | Gen. Kassem asserted that Kuwait had been an integral component of the southern Iraqi province of Basra under Ottoman rule and that Iraq had succeeded to Turkish territorial sovereignty over Basra with the dissolution of the Ottoman empire after the First World War . |
| 3 | Bluebeard had been a private joke — an exclamation she had been unable to stifle as they 'd rounded the cliff at the head of the valley and she had got her first glimpse of the imposing turreted Castell Rocamar . |
| 4 | Old Eddie Mosse had been a strange man to come out of Paradise Street . |
| 5 | Jerome Fanshawe had been an affluent stockbroker . |
| 6 | Friday had been a busy day . |
| 7 | The Issak had been the main casualties in the government 's campaign to stamp out support for the rebel Somali National Movement ( SNM ) . |
| 8 | Kylie had been a 13-year-old slip of a thing when she had last stayed with Dennis and Joan in their home in the village of Cymmer . |
| 9 | The assassins had never been traced , and the British authorities had said they were Sinn Feiners ; it was a stupid accusation , for MacCurtain had been a staunch Republican himself , so nobody had any doubt that the killers were Black and Tans . |
| 10 | There was in fact no shortage of evidence , even by those that were opposed to him , that Stalin had been an outstanding leader ( she quoted Winston Churchill to this effect , as well as de Gaulle and others ) . |
| 11 | Mr Leach had told the court that Curtis had been a staunch supporter of the anti-smoking campaign and that his father had died from lung cancer . |
| 12 | On 27 June Tan Malaka and other leading Communists were set free and Sjahrir was kidnapped just as Sukarno had been the previous August . |
| 13 | The loss of his agents amongst the Ping Tiao had been a serious setback , and the men he had bought from amongst their ranks had proved unsatisfactory in almost every respect . |
| 14 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
| 15 | Prior to a right-wing military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte in September 1973 [ see pp. 26151-52 ] , Chile had been a parliamentary democracy with an executive President and a National Congress elected by universal adult suffrage . |
| 16 | Henry Phipps had been the chief celebrant at this particular form of ‘ get-together ’ , and now someone had brought his priapic revels to a rather spectacular end . |
| 17 | In this sense , all the diverse myths of classical tragedy are equally Dionysiac , and the same applies to the tragic heroes : for a long time , Dionysus had been the only character represented in the early drama , its only hero , and , until Euripides , all the different suffering heroes of tragedy were still " mere masks of this original hero " . |
| 18 | The Crimea had been an autonomous republic from 1921 to 1945 . |
| 19 | If Wordsworth had been a simple country boy , they could have patronized him ; the Johnsonian style of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads showed that he could write like the gentlemanly reviewers if he wanted to , and nothing is more infuriating than one of our own sort who ‘ lets the side down ’ . |
| 20 | If Ramsbum had been a human being Amiss might have suspected that he was seriously feeling grief . |
| 21 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 22 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 23 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 24 | From his exile in France Bakhtiar had been a fierce critic of Ayatollah Khomeini , Iran 's spiritual leader following the 1979 revolution . |
| 25 | A tragedy in a way , for I thought that Allan Wells had been a great athlete . |
| 26 | Bringing the Bob Marley had been a good idea , there was n't a cheaper car in the yard , it seemed , except maybe the white Vauxhall Astra with the shirt-button wheels , a car Duncan the Drunken , in a rare lucid moment , had described as a jet-propelled tennis shoe . |
| 27 | The scheme to impose military control over Kinsai had been a logistical catastrophe , and it was the utter inefficiency above all which had made Alexei suspicious . |
| 28 | Thurmaston had been a typical Leicestershire village with all its farmhouses and cottages clustered together and surrounded by its huge open fields until the enclosure award of 1763 . |
| 29 | His landscaping at Quernmore Park near Lancaster had been a great success , as was his probable design for Casterton Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale , which looks uncommonly like Leck . |
| 30 | Well , we 'd played with Kel Nagle , Peter 's best pal , and our opponents in the Canada Cup in Portmarnock had been a certain Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead . |