Example sentences of "[noun] had [been] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kuwait had been wary of Iraqi territorial ambitions ever since it gained independence from the UK in 1961 . |
| 2 | Mr Yanagitani had been one of Daiwa 's highest-flyers . |
| 3 | The Tatars had been one of the groups expelled from their traditional homelands in 1944 on grounds of alleged Nazi sympathies ( and a certain amount of active collaboration ) . |
| 4 | The report singled out three recent incidents : a demonstration in Kishinev ( the capital ) on Jan. 8 , when a funeral procession for a Moldavian youth who had died in suspicious circumstances had turned into a rally by up to 10,000 people protesting against Soviet and communist rule , and fights had ensued between rival gangs of Moldavian and Russian youths ; a picket of the district Moldavian CP committee building in the town of Chadyr Lunga by members of the Gagauz minority demanding creation of their own autonomous republic ; and a referendum on Jan. 28 called by the city soviet in Tiraspol , Moldavia 's second largest city , in which the predominantly Russian population had voted overwhelmingly ( over 96 per cent of a 92 per cent poll ) to declare greater autonomy for the Tiraspol district and to support the possible declaration of Tiraspol and neighbouring Russian-populated towns as an autonomous republic ( Tiraspol had been one of the main centres of strikes by Moldavia 's Russian and Ukrainian population in August-September 1989 against greater Moldavian language rights — see pp. 36855 ; 36898 ) . |
| 5 | During much of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti 's seventh administration , formed in April 1991 [ see p. 38157 ] , the four coalition parties had been conscious of the approaching election and the government had progressively lost cohesion . |
| 6 | His career at Thame had been full of promise , attested by the Oxford University Local Examinations certificate framed on the walls of the terraced house in Cardiff in which I grew up . |
| 7 | On March 23 the NDPD ( which together with the CDU , the DBD and the liberal democrat precursor to the LDP had been one of the four " bloc " parties governing in coalition with the former communist regime — see p. 37025 ) joined the League of Free Democrat — the renamed LDP — to form one faction . |
| 8 | Falcone had been one of those responsible for bringing to trial 473 members of the Mafia in December 1987 [ see p. 35990 ] . |
| 9 | The college had been one of the last to open its doors to women students , and she could see why . |
| 10 | Carlie had been suspicious of people since the day she was born . |
| 11 | Until Forest reached the final , Wassall had been one of the 16 footballers vying for the title of the Football League 's quickest player in the final of the Rumbelows Sprint Challenge , to be staged immediately before the big match with Manchester United . |
| 12 | The Jockey Club 's Disciplinary Committee upheld the York stewards ' judgement that Eddery had been guilty of interfering with Green 's Bid and Splendent in the Gimcrack Stakes . |
| 13 | Frankie had been one of those unfortunates . |
| 14 | Puddephat had given evidence , saying Melanie Gandell had been one of his brightest students , and he had gone out of his way to encourage her academically as a result . |
| 15 | It concluded that Dr Silvester had been guilty of a ‘ serious error of professional judgment ’ and ordered him to take a six-month retraining course . |
| 16 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 17 | If they were implicated in the cover-up it seemed inconceivable that the President had been unaware of what was going on . |
| 18 | However , in that case the defendants had been aware of the plaintiff 's medical evidence and to avoid possible objections at trial it is good practice to amend to plead any substantial changes to the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 19 | She made it her rule that Belfast , the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army , casual atrocities never crossed her lips , not after his last trip away , because the man who had come back to her from Northern Ireland had been frightened of his own shadow . |
| 20 | In the book Marje writes that her 53-year marriage to husband Sidney had been devoid of sex . |
| 21 | Nordhausen had been one of these places . |
| 22 | Jenny 's home had been one of constant arguments and rows . |
| 23 | Alida had been conscious of Dorothea 's married state , hating her for it , burning with scorn at the preoccupations and trivialities of a marriage . |
| 24 | I was one of the pillarists in the Nelson case and only wish our column had been one of more magnificent dimensions . |
| 25 | The blond man had nodded a greeting to her , and Carol had been aware of his appraising gaze . |
| 26 | Although Taiwan maintained diplomatic relations with almost 30 countries , South Korea had been one of the most important and was Taiwan 's last formal diplomatic ally in Asia . |
| 27 | The Miller spokeswoman confirmed that Sainsbury had been aware of the plans , and that as it was a non-retail development , there would be no conflict of interest . |
| 28 | Ever since she was a little girl Maxine had been terrified of water . |
| 29 | ‘ The disciplinary committee found that Geoff Blackburn had been guilty of misconduct during the match . |
| 30 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |