Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am surprised to hear a defence spokesman ask that question , because he knows that the two cases to which I referred are covered by the negative security assurances which made the use of nuclear weapons in such circumstances inconceivable . |
| 2 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 3 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 4 | The councillors involved were expelled from the ruling Labour Group on the council . |
| 5 | Again , all the applications demonstrated were based on the published case studies . |
| 6 | The data used was based on the 1972 , 1973 and 1974 intakes of all UK Universities and was provided by The Universities Statistical Record . |
| 7 | The recipe she used was taken from the WI Book of Bread and Buns . |
| 8 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 9 | But the five-shot lead he created was trimmed to a manageable three shots for today 's third round which the English Ryder Cup man starts on a 13-under-par total of 131 . |
| 10 | He fled and fled , and every door he found was painted with the black plague cross and every face he pleaded with was tinged with the red of plague fever . |
| 11 | Moreover , he noticed an electric lighting cable passing over the wall to an adjoining house , which he found was occupied by a senior official . |
| 12 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 13 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 14 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 15 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 16 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 17 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 18 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 19 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 20 | A few moments later , acquitted defendant Daniel Winter , who 'd been listening to the closing speeches , ran from the building . |
| 21 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 22 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 23 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 24 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 25 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 26 | Luce froze , realising how easily she 'd been lulled into a false sense of security . |
| 27 | Subconsciously , she realised , she 'd been hoping for a ready answer , an explanation which would clear her niggling doubts … |
| 28 | He 'd been funny , telling stories against himself of fiascos he had survived in the theatre , and he 'd been flattering in a subtle way . |
| 29 | She 'd been elected to the National Executive Committee and she stood up , said how pleased she was , and then said , ‘ But now I have to take the bucket round for a collection because that 's what I always do … ’ and I just thought , ‘ How wonderful ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |