Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the look of the pile of branches , Travis had been back a few times , but he was absent still as she added her load to the mound . |
| 2 | Ensign Piper had been only a short time in Australia when he volunteered for duty in the convict settlement on Norfolk Island . |
| 3 | Aisha had been both a tribal companion to the Sheikha and a ‘ nanny ’ to her children . |
| 4 | Yet one can not escape the feeling that if Humanae Vitae had been essentially a reasoned condemnation of abortion , the witness of the Church would have been all the more powerful . |
| 5 | The transfer arrangements for Holly and Demyonov had been basically a Foreign and Commonwealth matter , and rightly so . |
| 6 | For only I and one other person in that courtroom knew the truth , knew that the hand which had dispatched William had been neither a female hand nor a male one , but the hand of a terrible neuter thing ! |
| 7 | According to The Famous Grouse Director , Matthew Gloag , the company 's interest in the next year 's tournament in Edinburgh had been almost a foregone conclusion due to the enormous benefits of having been involved in the 1991 World Cup . |