Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon was convinced , or persuaded himself , that he 'd been ill used by Constanza , that their marriage had been a mistake , a youthful mistake , the kind of thing one did in a war . |
| 2 | And she 'd been blind positive he 'd ask her out . |
| 3 | He had been Liberal Unionist Chief Whip , with Joseph Chamberlain at the Colonial Office , First Lord of the Admiralty , Milner 's successor in South Africa , and a ditcher over the House of Lords . |
| 4 | The deal was effectively concluded in November 1992 , but had been pending final approval by the European Community , which is financing the project under its PHARE programme . |
| 5 | The deal was effectively concluded in November 1992 , but had been pending final approval by the European Community , which is financing the project under its PHARE programme . |
| 6 | Since time immemorial ‘ Staggy ’ had been drip-feeding ambitious junior researchers with toxin , preparing them for the stronger poisons which lay ahead . |
| 7 | All of the cadets had been force-taught correct Imperial Gothic under hypno-casques . |
| 8 | On the other hand the number of university graduates greatly increased : many of them had served in the forces , usually as officers , and several had been temporary civil servants . |
| 9 | There had been intermittent heavy firing and tank movements around the presidential palace since the previous night , reportedly by dissident officers seeking to prevent Tesfaye Gebre Kidan from ordering a unilateral ceasefire — which he in fact did that evening . |
| 10 | All the houses in the village had been small single-storey homes , perhaps only four square metres in area . |
| 11 | If this had been ordinary civil litigation I would have agreed . |
| 12 | While his predecessors had been ordinary royal humans . |
| 13 | There had been strong anti-JNA feeling in Slovenia since the notorious 1988 trial of journalists and a warrant officer accused of illegally disclosing secret plans for a military clampdown against Slovene liberals [ see pp. 36374 ; 36663 ] . |
| 14 | Criticism of it was by no means new : a generation earlier , in the second decade of the century , there had been various anti-enclosure measures , an Act in 1515 to prevent the conversion of land from tillage to pasture , and the establishment of commissions of enquiry by Wolsey in 1517 and 1518 to investigate the extent of enclosures . |
| 15 | And beneath their feeding place where yesterday had been snowy white , was today damp and brown with mud and warm droppings . |
| 16 | She told my mother she had been bored silly by Mrs Monro and was tired out with making conversation . |
| 17 | The ploughed area had about 300 plants a sq m , compared with 1800/sq m where deep cultivations were used and 2400/sq m where the land had been shallow cultivated . |
| 18 | Because she 'd seen the bottle , and it had been good French burgundy … |
| 19 | The ride in the air transporter had been bumpy due to air missiles fired in their direction . |
| 20 | There had been occasional brief meetings to discuss some detail of the conversion . |
| 21 | In the first place , his appearance had changed : what had been youthful good looks had changed into a sort of equine distress . |
| 22 | Five others had been unsuccessful Parliamentary candidates , three of them being Conservatives . |
| 23 | The two winos had been shocked awake by the infernal music , and scurried away from the statue . |
| 24 | In the first place protectionism had been traditional Conservative policy before the emergence of free trade and Joseph Chamberlain had revived some sympathy for the idea in the early twentieth century . |
| 25 | If the heaving had continued , if there had been continuous restless movement , existence inside the train would have been impossible . |
| 26 | The veteran leaders of both of the country 's main parties , who had been personal political rivals since the 1960s , resigned their party posts during February-March . |
| 27 | Salvador Nava , 77 , an independent who had been the opposition coalition candidate in the gubernatorial election , was in the 12th day of a protest march from San Luis Potosí to Mexico City to expose what he said had been extensive electoral fraud . |
| 28 | If there had been sufficient other evidence of participation he might have been properly convicted . |
| 29 | In the 1970s the Labour government supported a private member 's Bill which took over an item which would have been included in its own programme if there had been sufficient parliamentary time . |
| 30 | Before the decisive revolt , which provoked the full-scale Roman backlash , there had been numerous abortive insurrections extending back to Jesus 's time and , indeed , well before . |