Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , the figurines which they made are 20 centimetres high and depict worshippers in attitudes of adoration , or reclining goats , or cattle . |
| 2 | The companies I mentioned are important acquisitions . ’ |
| 3 | The size of the particles created by the fires and the heights to which they rose were key factors that determined the atmospheric residence times of the pollutants , the extent of spread of the plumes , and hence the degree of impact on weather and climate . |
| 4 | In Robinson 's ( 1955 ) experiment the stimuli used were 10 fingerprints . |
| 5 | Often , but by no means invariably , the medreses involved were imperial foundations , such as the medrese of Suleyman 's mother , Hafsa Sultan , in Manisa ( 929/1523 ) ; the medreses of Suleyman himself in Rhodes ( 956/1549 ) and Damascus ( 973/1566 ) ; and that of Selim II on the newly-conquered island of Cyprus ( 978–9/1570–1 ) . |
| 6 | Detectives say they now believe the three man involved were all travellers … and were staying at various sites like this around Milton Keynes . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought the people involved were Calabrian shepherds . ’ |
| 8 | During practice the best time logged was twenty minutes . |
| 9 | The distance involved was 90 miles in six hours , the route being in the Chichester area . |
| 10 | ‘ The most expensive ingredient that I used was fresh tomatoes . |
| 11 | The oldest individual we found was eight years . |
| 12 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 13 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 14 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 15 | ‘ There 'd been two heads on those pillows , ’ agreed Ethel , ‘ and two bodies between those sheets , however hard they tried to disguise it . ’ |
| 16 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 17 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 18 | Now , as I said , there 'd been various answers er , to this , throughout history , one of the most interesting and significant as far as we 're concerned , in studying Freud and the social sciences , was er , that of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes . |
| 19 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 20 | And poems in a novel simply did n't work ; they 'd been crap poems anyway . |
| 21 | ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm — |
| 22 | Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy . |
| 23 | Not that you 'd know they 'd been most days . |
| 24 | And then much of this leeway was made up and the capacity being there er , well the hours of work were getting tackled then , they 'd been longer hours and er I think as a a boy coming out of apprenticeship , er the forty seven hour week had come into being . |
| 25 | The government also tried to secure the removal from Punjab of four senior civil servants and police officers who it believed were strong supporters of Sharif . |
| 26 | These would be aimed at reaching agreement over what he believed were essential changes to the constitution if the refugee influx was to be curbed . |
| 27 | All those killed or injured were working men going peacefully about their lawful occasions , yet the terrorists did not hesitate to murder or maim them . |
| 28 | All subjects studied were regular smokers but the duodenal ulcer patients were significantly older and had therefore smoked for a longer period ( Table I ) . |
| 29 | Second bottom United were five points from a survival spot at the start of this week , though they have played more games than any of the three clubs immediately above them . |
| 30 | Among the priorities he identified were human rights in Africa , continental integration , the situations in Liberia , Somalia and South Africa , and the prevention and management of further conflicts . |