Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |
| 2 | In the event the conviction for capital murder was affirmed on the ground that ( the evidence being overwhelming ) there had been no miscarriage of justice , despite the majority 's view that the trial judge had been in error . |
| 3 | Three families in Ayrshire , for instance , who had eight children taken away in a raid in June 1990 ; little was heard of their situation until after the Orkney case had been in the headlines for some time . |
| 4 | In his reply , the Chief Executive told Councillor Matheson that the Social Work Department had been in the process of compiling guidelines when ‘ the present difficulties ’ arose . |
| 5 | It is fascinating to study the way that they bent the truth to promote a saleable product , yet even if the Trades Descriptions Act had been in force then , they would hardly ever have broken the law . |
| 6 | Indeed , contrary to MAFF 's stubbornly held views that the LFA Directive can not be used to support conservation except as an ancillary to agricultural development , the then Minister of Agriculture , Mr Peter Walker , answered a question in the House on 10 December 1981 on how successful the LFA Directive had been in encouraging production in the UK . |
| 7 | In a pre-Forum meeting between Australia and New Zealand , Australia expressed concern over the continuing allegations of human rights abuses by Papua New Guinea on Bougainville , where a secessionist guerrilla war had been in progress since 1989 . |
| 8 | The coffee made by that blasted mother 's boy Sartini had been like water as usual and the Brigadier himself had n't had time to go home and shave . |
| 9 | The Soren Larsen , which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line had been in dry dock for seven months . |
| 10 | For the District the contribution from Watts was of considerable and immediate significance as Bedfordshire was the only county in the region in which the template for the proposed rural areas scheme had been at least partially developed . |
| 11 | Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ . |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher stonewalled her way through Question Time , repeatedly arguing that the Rover deal had been in the best interests of the taxpayer . |
| 13 | For ten years Law had been at the heart of the party 's reactions to political events , largely because his own views mirrored those of his followers almost exactly . |
| 14 | Mr punch had been in high spirits , too , in the summer of 1856 , thinking that crinoline was a great joke . |
| 15 | Robert Meaby , whose brother Brian and the Eastbourne captain had been on the wrong end of a five and four beating in the bottom match , had with Christopher Walker already enjoyed a fair share of excitement , halving the shorter length with a birdie putt after Shrewsbury had chipped in for a two . |
| 16 | An inquiry found that the vintage plane had been in good working order . |
| 17 | I refer not only to the substantial amount of money that was made available , resulting in a £45 per week rise for nursing homes , which cost us a total of £225 million , but to the amendment that allowed the Secretary of State , after community care had been in place for some time , to take account of the local authorities ' assessments of reasonable rates and of their experiences in general . |
| 18 | Consequently , the majority of participants in the group discussion had been in coal mining but now had jobs as unskilled workers in factories . |
| 19 | The home affairs ministry had been against American requests to relax the law that protects small shopkeepers by making it hard for supermarkets and department stores ( big importers all ) to open branches in their neighbourhoods . |
| 20 | Before 1979 , 90 per cent of RX business had been in copier rental : capital realized by the sale of these machines was to be reinvested in training . |
| 21 | The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) . |
| 22 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 23 | Joseph Freeman had been on trial as a porter , and his appointment was confirmed . |
| 24 | Lesley-Jane Decker had been on stage at the time of the shooting , so , unless she had brought in a hired killer , she seemed to be in the clear . |
| 25 | On Nov. 26 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the United Kingdom government had been in breach of the Convention on Human Rights in attempting to prevent three newspapers from publishing extracts from Spycatcher , the memoirs of the former MI5 officer Peter Wright [ see pp. 35537-39 ; 36155-56 ; 36502-03 ; 37158 ; 37784 ] . |
| 26 | Important as the victory at Stirling Bridge had been for Scottish pride , there was , after a period of despondency and subjugation , to be an even more significant battlefield above the Bannock Burn two miles south of the town . |
| 27 | The Wackersdorf reprocessing complex had been under construction for seven years behind barricades . |
| 28 | The Lord Chancellor had been in a position to negotiate this with the Treasury . |
| 29 | The poem was the finest Wordsworth had yet written , and , coming so soon after his departure from Alfoxden , suggests that the loss to him of the Quantock countryside had been of little real significance . |
| 30 | An adult woman had been in labour for more than two days with her third child . |