Example sentences of "[vb past] been a important " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Eleanor , my parents , quite a few of my friends — you never really made any effort to get along with the people who 'd been an important part of my life before you came on the scene . ’ |
| 2 | As US officials produced evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and appealed for support from other Latin American countries in their campaign to oust him , their case was weakened by evidence that the US had been an important supporter in the general 's rise to power and that the CIA had known about his trafficking for years . |
| 3 | Also , John often insisted that the treatment of black people in South Africa had been an important factor in his decision . |
| 4 | This was interesting general confirmation that the element of ‘ serious , content that had been an important part of the deceased Daily Herald and News Chronicle was no longer something the non-quality reader was prepared to pay for in a daily paper . |
| 5 | In the seventeenth century it had been an important re-export , which may have irritated planters who would have liked to export directly to the eventual destination . |
| 6 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 7 | There had been an important group of Neville associates further south , centred on Sir William Parr of Kendal . |
| 8 | Mr Guy said the massive response to the Hoover free flights offer had been an important factor in the firm 's decline . |
| 9 | NASA argued , however , that the flight had been an important step in the development of the proposed Freedom space station . |
| 10 | Just four years after Charles 's death , Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims , who had been an important political figure throughout Charles 's reign ( though not consistently close to him ) , wrote a treatise , The Government of the Palace , for the young King Carloman , Charles 's grandson , and lent it an air of authority by claiming to incorporate the work of Abbot Adalard of Corbie , who had died nearly sixty years before . |
| 11 | Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important medieval borough ; other places had been small market centres whose burgesses had obtained some measure of independence from their manorial lords . |
| 12 | There had been an important group of Neville associates further south , centred on Sir William Parr of Kendal . |
| 13 | Their discovery showed that Rousay had been an important centre of power for the Vikings . |