Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 2 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 3 | There was the binding of wounds and examining of bruises to be considered , and the saying of prayers and sewing-up in bedding of those whose lives had been forfeit and above all there was a great deal of talking to be one , for , as the Magistrate scientifically observed , nothing unusual can happen among human beings without generating an immense , compensating volume of chatter . |
| 4 | ‘ Their lives had been hell and they were all very frightened . ’ |
| 5 | Ecologists had been warning of the possibility of such a conflagration for some time . |
| 6 | Winter coats had been navy or dark grey . |
| 7 | Indeed feuds with these families had been part of the staple political diet of the early twelfth-century Dukes , though neither Eleanor 's father nor grandfather can be supposed to have been introducing " Anglo-Norman methods of government " . |
| 8 | The margin between the two rates had been zero for several weeks , reflecting the strength of the franc . |
| 9 | His medical special interests had been embryology , paediatrics , and homoeopathy . |
| 10 | And then , of course , Jill Yate knew very little about retailing or the fashion industry ; until a year before , her main interests had been rock and roll and the Beatles , and she fell upon the job at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ as representing part of the faded Sixties pop culture she loved . |
| 11 | In recent years , all her wars had been frontier battles , fought round her coasts to repel raiders and oust alien settlements . |
| 12 | None of Offa 's immediate forebears had been king of the Mercians and Offa himself is another example ( like Aethelbald ) of an aetheling competing successfully for the kingship from outside the innermost core of royal power . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 14 | ( The two men had been Sir Denys 's rivals for the top job in 1987 , and Mr Hampel will be chief executive of the rump ICI if the demerger goes ahead . ) |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the roof surfaces had been reclad with corrugated iron when the original locally quarried stone slates became unserviceable . |
| 16 | One factor inhibiting the spread of written documents had been fear of forgery . |
| 17 | Well , we feel that there 's it 's obviously quite a lot of points that are , are very good in the report , but we really feel that it 's concentrated very much on the administration of pension schemes , rather than security and I think that whilst if everything that , everyone of his recommendations had been law , I think it would have made it more difficult for Maxwell , but I do n't think it would have made in impossible for Maxwell and I think that what th what we see the problem is , is that in many ways the , the Maxwell problem was brought about by two major , major factors I think . |