Example sentences of "[vb past] been the [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heaven knew she 'd been the subject of enough prurient curiosity in the few short weeks she 'd been running the club . |
| 2 | Rostovtzeff identified the head he thought had been the top of this object as that of Commodus , and that it was associated with the cult of Commodus-Hercules . |
| 3 | Miss Marshall complained of unlawful sex discrimination and her case went to the European Court of Justice where it was decided that she had been the subject of such unlawful discrimination . |
| 4 | That is , the " manifest dream 's " apparently irrelevant and unpredictable content was actually deemed to have been systematically arrived at from a " latent dream " , whose implicit content had been the subject of some extensive dreamwork . |
| 5 | And it had been the experience of that war that convinced Richard Cobden of ‘ the utter uselessness of raising one 's voice in opposition to war when it has once begun . ’ |
| 6 | With a round of state elections taking place on Nov. 8 , Salinas 's apparent acknowledgement of the electoral fraud issue stimulated rather than placated opposition protests ( as had been the case on those recent occasions when Salinas had been seen to intervene to remove victorious PRI candidates accused of gross electoral fraud — see pp. 38385 ; 38524 ; 38716 ; 38905 ; 39136 ) . |
| 7 | Domestic life with his father had been the training-school for this distinctively Lewisian vision . |
| 8 | Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there . |
| 9 | A stranger could never imagine that it had been the scene of such horror . |
| 10 | What had been the rest of that unfinished sentence ? she wondered . |
| 11 | She wondered what had been the use of all that trying to get clean on the train if they were now lost in a place where nobody would ever find them , not even when something happened and they disappeared for ever . |
| 12 | Luke had been the director on that film ? |
| 13 | She saw him as a reflection of herself , devious and cunning , her partner in many a conspiracy ; the most successful of which had been the manipulation of that slut of a girl in Tyler Blacklock 's lodging house . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's off sulking most likely , ’ said Harbour , and started to tell her his reasons for believing O'Hara 's performance that evening had been the equal of any of the great Shakespearian roles as portrayed by the likes of Ralphie or Larry . |
| 15 | Quite apart from this , the legislation required that the gathering of evidence by other means would be unlikely to succeed , or would be considerably more difficult ; a warrant would apply to only one suspect , so that there were no general warrants ; the warrants would remain in force for three months and thereafter had to be renewed ; and the person concerned generally had to be notified as soon as possible after the surveillance ended that he or she had been the target of such surveillance . |
| 16 | Daniel Moore and his friends had been the source of most of these . |
| 17 | Rightly or wrongly , Branson suspected that a Music Week reporter had been the source of some stories ( others , he suspected , had been planted by John Varnom ) . |
| 18 | If her own marriage had been the result of some matchmaking , so too was Andrew 's marriage to Sarah later that year . |
| 19 | A consequence had been the loss of some of the not-so-bright children of local tradespeople or farmers ( who now looked to the independent schools ) , and some alleged decline in the social standing of the school within the town . |
| 20 | Fowler had been told not to press the old man , but the parentage of Cissie 's baby had been the cause of much of the gossip . |
| 21 | Some element beyond simple senility had been the cause of this . |