Example sentences of "had been the scene " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stranger could never imagine that it had been the scene of such horror . |
| 2 | In this extract the hero approaches Stonehenge : Some readers have found the human sacrifice image ‘ juvenile ’ , and it is reminiscent of the general level of The Vale of Esthwaite ; but in Wordsworth 's defence one must point out that everybody believed that Stonehenge had been the scene of human sacrifice , and continued to do so until this century ( see , for instance , Hardy 's Tess of the D'Urbervilles ) . |
| 3 | What an inglorious end to what had once been a busy loco shed that had been the scene of so much activity in its heyday . |
| 4 | Later , there had been the scene she did n't want now to remember : |
| 5 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 6 | There was nothing he could do but wait , the little hut had been the scene of a violent death and the medical and technical people must have their turn first . |
| 7 | Nowhere was this more evident on the wide blue expanse of the discworld than in those areas that had been the scene of the great battles of the Mage Wars , which had happened very shortly after Creation . |
| 8 | A Hoxha monument was also attacked on Feb. 20 by protesters in the port of Durrës , which 11 days earlier had been the scene of rioting by would-be emigrants trying illegally to board a ferry for Italy . |
| 9 | The funerals of members of the Kurdistan Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrilla movement had been the scene of demonstrations and clashes with troops . |