Example sentences of "[coord] had been [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impoundments that went beyond that and involved policy change had occurred in the past , but these were either justified under the Commander-in-Chief clause in the Constitution , or had been the subject of consultation with congressional leaders . |
| 2 | Among the outgoing ministers Alvaro Barreto , the Health Minister , had held senior government posts for 11 years and had been a minister for nine of these . |
| 3 | Later in the month , however , agreements were reached which pre-emptied a crisis although discontent in the military remained and had been a factor in Enrico de Melo 's resignation as Defence Minister at the beginning of the year [ for which see p. 37197 ] . |
| 4 | He had contested parliamentary seats in three General Elections and had been a member of Maidenhead Town Council and chairman of its Library Committee . |
| 5 | Before that he had served as Minister of External Economic Relations and Supply and had been a member of the MPRP central committee since 1976 . |
| 6 | Mrs Darrell was in her middle thirties , was tall and statuesque and had been a bit of a beauty in her day . |
| 7 | He was almost 60 years of age and had been a fugitive for 22 years , during which time he had had no permanent home , no source of income and little respite from danger . |
| 8 | Support for Scott could have come from Stanley 's Parliamentary Under Secretary , Henry Baillie , who was a personal friend of Manners and had been a supporter of Young England . |
| 9 | He was of noble Norman birth , had studied at the school of Liège , and had been a clerk of William I in Lanfranc 's time . |
| 10 | She was twenty-two years old and had been a nurse at the Princess Louise Clinic in new Cavendish Street . |
| 11 | I believe she was studying modern dance and had been a pupil of Mary Wigman , or of one of her disciples . |
| 12 | She had once studied to be a concert pianist and had been a pupil of Paderewski in Dresden in the summer of 1921 . |
| 13 | He had also been Form Master of 1B for many years , providing a thorough grounding in Mathematics for many future Old Stopfordians , and had been an officer in the ATC . |
| 14 | Mayhew had written a four-volume work called London Labour and the London Poor and had been an influence on Dickens . |
| 15 | He seems also to have become the object of the enmity of Haci Ivaz Pasa , the vezir , who had , among other things , led the successful defence of Bursa against the attack of Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey ( c. 816/1413 ) and had been the architect of the Yesil Cami . |
| 16 | Slopes had become the focus for revived interest since 1950 ( Strahler , 1950b ) and had been the subject for quantitative description and analysis ( Bakker and Le Heux , 1952 ) and then for measurements which could lead to measurements in specific areas using for example the Young Pit ( Young , 1960 ) and providing many indications of rates of erosion ( A. Young , 1974 ) . |
| 17 | A previous scheme had not worked , he said , and had been the subject of a scathing report from the Commons Public Accounts Committee . |
| 18 | In 1976 twenty-six men died in the Scotia mine , which was unsafe and had been the subject of 652 citing-for-violations of safety regulations ( Caudill 1977 ) . |
| 19 | The advantages of non-custodial penalties had long been propagated by penal reformers of a progressive liberal disposition , and had been the subject of two previous reviews by the Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders . |
| 20 | The measure was highly controversial , and had been the subject of rival proposals from the Commission , the EP and the Council of Ministers . |
| 21 | This was a large house built in 1786 for a merchant of the East India Company and had been the home of Sir Noel Paton , a famous Scottish artist . |
| 22 | Latterly , Elizabeth had married but had been the victim of a cruel and brutal husband , and had retreated to her parents ' home at the post office where she fell ill and later died . |