Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had left suddenly while Rachel had been on leave and on her return she 'd been told that another officer had been appointed but she 'd had no time to find out anything about him . |
| 2 | I 'd been working since early morn , |
| 3 | The towpath , covered with a build-up of earth and grass which had been accumulating since commercial traffic on the canal ceased in the 1930's , was cleared to a width of one metre for a distance of about half a mile . |
| 4 | Gen. Suchinda , the former army commander and military junta leader , had been appointed as Prime Minister in early April [ see p. 38865 ] following an inconclusive general election in March which had resulted in the formation of a weak , pro-military coalition dominated by Chart Thai and Samakkhi Tham [ see p. 38816 ] . |
| 5 | It was reported on Sept. 28 that Marciano García had been appointed as new Finance Minister and José Blanco Gomez as new Economy Minister . |
| 6 | Colt read the letter that had been written that same morning , in haste , by his father . |
| 7 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 8 | Members of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) , whose forces took Addis Ababa in May [ see pp. 38174-75 ] , were appointed to the Defence and Foreign Affairs ministries ( Seyoum Mesfin , who had been named as Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs in June 1991 , being confirmed in the latter post ) . |
| 9 | The Egyptian police claimed that false identity papers had been discovered and that Misrati had jumped from a balcony in a bid to escape , breaking a leg in the process . |
| 10 | But they counted as necessary a pair of iron-pointed walking sticks , a clasp-knife , stout hunting-whips to beat off the legions of dogs they were prepared to encounter , and a policeman 's small lantern , since they had been warned that Turkish paper lanterns were useless in a hurricane . |
| 11 | Possibly even later , two burials have been recorded from Coulter 's Garage just outside the south side of the defences ; these may be contemporary with the interment of a young girl who had been beheaded and ten infant burials in the garden of Lloyds Bank . |
| 12 | When the Demidovs had first built mines and smelting works in the hills , they had been fortified and special permission was obtained from the government for the industrialists to hire a private army for protection . |
| 13 | It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns . |
| 14 | The praise bestowed on the adaptation of literary classics , the films of the foreign directors , and the role of Vidor always stressed the relative realism of these films compared with the standard product and was testimony to the extent to which the feature film had moved away from the era of social preoccupations when it had been felt that social preaching was the obvious subject-matter for Hollywood . |
| 15 | To Victorian eyes , any interior from that earlier period might have seemed underfurnished ; but the construction that George Eliot puts on the dominance of walls and ceiling is decisively Victorian in its moral emphasis : ‘ in walking through these rooms with their splendid ceilings and their meagre furniture , which tell how all the spare money had been absorbed before personal comfort was thought of , I have felt that there dwelt in this old English baronet some of that sublime spirit which distinguishes art from luxury , and worships beauty apart from self-indulgence ’ . |
| 16 | She had been determined that this baby would be hers . |
| 17 | I had been complaining that one day I must become a good daughter again and go back home for a visit . |
| 18 | It had been assumed that increased rehabilitation input would achieve the ‘ big move ’ out of hospital and the restoration of substantial numbers of patients to some moderate state of well-being . |
| 19 | This insight had enabled Lewis to recover all the things in art and in life which he had been enjoying since imaginative awareness dawned . |
| 20 | In American Economic Laundry v. Little , a final order for possession had been made but that order for possession had been suspended . |
| 21 | A guarantee had been made that any centre submitting all results by the end of a given month would have all candidates certificated by the end of the following month . |
| 22 | Earlier , the Pakistan Times of March 13 had confirmed that another of his sons , Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi , had been dismissed as federal Minister of Communications , reportedly for contacting the government 's political opponents . |
| 23 | Earlier Costa Alegre had been elected as leader of the ruling Party of Democratic Convergence ( PCD ) , replacing Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio who had been dismissed as Prime Minister in April [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 24 | Puntsagiyn Jasray , who had been elected as Prime Minister in July [ see p. 39010 ] , appointed a new Cabinet on Aug. 21 . |
| 25 | Frederick Chiluba , who addressed several thousand MMD supporters in pouring rain , was chairman-general of the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions and had been elected as MMD president at its first national convention on Feb. 27-March 2 , nearly three months after the enactment of multiparty legislation [ see p. 37909 ] . |
| 26 | Do Muoi had been elected as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) at its seventh congress in June [ see pp. 38271-72 ] . |
| 27 | The 34 were members of the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , the country 's main opposition party , and all but nine had been elected as Constituent Assembly deputies in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ] . |
| 28 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the fortress of autocracy had been breached and liberal pressure for further reform could be expected to gather momentum . |
| 30 | A five-hour visit by US President George Bush on June 11 , intended , according to US political analysts , to demonstrate to US voters in an election year that his decision to launch the December 1989 military invasion of Panama [ see pp. 37112-13 ] had been vindicated and that peace and democracy had returned to the country , badly backfired when thousands of demonstrators disrupted his public appearances . |