Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been employed before 1917 in the archives of the foreign ministry and one of his ancestors on his mother 's side had been Russian ambassador in Vienna during the 1814 – 15 congress . |
| 2 | This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses . |
| 3 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 4 | The first few months had been sheer bliss . |
| 5 | Voight first got to know Dustin well when he was playing Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge in January 1965 , on which Dustin had been assistant director . |
| 6 | The Monastery of Santa de Nogueira had been imported stone by stone from Portugal to the Gila Desert , Arizona , in 1819 , and abandoned after the Mexican-American War . |
| 7 | For the first time she regretted being an identical twin ; none of this would have happened if she and Dana had been ordinary sisters , but then you might never have met Roman Wyatt , her subconscious whispered . |
| 8 | Her presence and her loss had been equal disasters . |
| 9 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
| 10 | Churchill , Eden , Macmillan , and Home had been political grandees ; all emerged through the ‘ magic circle , and not as a result of election by MPs . |
| 11 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 12 | Demirel had been Prime Minister six times in the period until 1980 , and several of his administrations had been coalitions . |
| 13 | Artemis had been busy drawing , sitting on the window seat of the nursery , high up on the third floor of the family wing . |
| 14 | STAFF TRAINING The details have yet to be revealed but Mr Pearson said the council had been encouraging firms to train their staff since 1983 . |
| 15 | Trade and Industry Secretary Navarro was the head of an accounting firm , while Agrarian Reform Secretary Garilao had been executive director of the Philippine Business for Social Progress , a business-funded foundation established to undertake community projects . |
| 16 | Her last post had been General Secretary to the Association of Headmistresses . |
| 17 | He was a countryman at heart , and although these past weeks had been tremendous fun , it was lovely to see the grass and trees and a blue sky unclouded by smoke . |
| 18 | She just knew that a basement room was for sitting in , a children 's ward for visiting , and railway stations had been prime targets for being bombed . |
| 19 | While the ebb and flow to this point had been absorbing stuff , the ensuing capitulation was nothing short of astonishing , far more dramatic and conclusive than that suffered by England two years ago ; but still never totally unexpected on a pitch showing wear and uneven bounce in equal measure . |
| 20 | Back at the pub , Connor had been busy serving drinks all the evening , but by this time things were quietening down . |
| 21 | Could one really put one 's hand on one 's heart and swear that the Ponting case would not have happened if Harold Wilson had been Prime Minister ? |
| 22 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 23 | He was an implacable enemy of Ted 's , from the 1 950S when Ted had been Chief Whip , and they had a great row . |
| 24 | At first Sophie listened with only mild interest as the other girl spoke of her involvement in veterinary work , which had begun when she had worked as a receptionist in a large practice in Shropshire , where Robert had been senior assistant . |
| 25 | After all James was of the Stewart dynasty , so called because his ancestor Robert had been High Steward of Scotland , and had succeeded to the throne on the death of David II in 1371 . |
| 26 | Defying the need to slump her head dejectedly on to her arms , to howl long and hard that every minute of this evening had been utter hell and that all she wanted now was to curl up safe and warm in her own bed . |
| 27 | His Picassos had been Blue Period , the Saltimbanques , a strange Boy with a Pipe , crowned with flowers . |
| 28 | The Manchus had been full citizens with diplomatic privileges for more than thirty years now , but there still existed between them and other humans a coldness which could not be explained simply by xenophobia . |
| 29 | Literature — above all fiction — has never been a notably gentlemanly profession in Britain , as Dickens and H. G. Wells illustrate ; and the Bloomsbury group had been upper middle-class rather than aristocratic . |
| 30 | 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 . |