Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The squad I ran became what can only be described as more ‘ disordered ’ and ‘ polluted ’ than had been the accepted norm , and we exhibited many verbal and nonverbal signals of this divergent nature . |
| 2 | Following the meeting a revised order was issued which , while not complying with all of the islanders ' requests , was considerably more acceptable to them than had been the original directive . |
| 3 | God , that had been a powerful shit . |
| 4 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
| 5 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 6 | It was here , on the ground floor of the east wing , that Louise Taylor had been found , in the same room that had been the royal family 's drawing-room . |
| 7 | The protection suit that had been the sacrificial dummy was no longer that . |
| 8 | In this way the autonomy and spontaneity of the individual subject that had been the original goal of enlightenment might be retrieved . |
| 9 | She felt lousy , drained by the swings of emotions that had been an integral part of these last — what was it , just eight hours ? |
| 10 | The large oval locket that had been an eighteenth-birthday present from her aunt , a gold bracelet , a pair of drop earrings and — she breathed a sigh of relief — her mother 's clip were still in the sandalwood box her parents had given her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had been in hospital many years before to have his appendix removed and that had been an uneventful procedure . |
| 13 | MacDonald also had condemned the Lloyd George coalition as corrupt and unprincipled and had been a major beneficiary of its fall . |
| 14 | He was the younger brother of Lajos ' father , and had been a successful export — a businessman who owned a factory . |
| 15 | The owl had been cold and slow and had been a poor meal for the wolf . |
| 16 | He played in every position in the Bangor back-line and had been a regular member of the Ulster squad that swept the boards in the inter-provincial championships in the last nine years . |
| 17 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 18 | She was nearly 80 years old at the time and had been a devoted parent and strict catholic all her life . |
| 19 | One senior official with a ringside seat at the traumas of winter 1973–4 contemplated resignation during the first week of March so that he could tell the country that Heath was a serious man and had been a worthy prime minister . |
| 20 | Mario Solórzano was secretary-general of the Social Democratic Party ( PSD ) and had been a presidential candidate in 1985 . |
| 21 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 22 | This collaboration , it claimed , had brought the country to the brink of " collapse and disaster " , and had been the principal reason for the suspension of US$100,000,000 in US aid in late May . |
| 23 | In April of 1925 a vacancy for the post of superintendent nurse was advertised and the appointment went to Miss May W. Hall , who was 32 years old , and had been the assistant tutor and deputy superintendent nurse at St.James ' Hospital , Chester . |
| 24 | It had been a village of thatched cabins , with virtually no other buildings at all , and had been the original Galway town before De Burgo came . |
| 25 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 26 | 11 And saw heaven opened , and a certain vessel descending unto him , as if had been a great sheet knit at the four comers , and let down to the earth . |
| 27 | It was an old sofa , but had been a good one in its day , made of soft leather which had worn to a comfortable softness . |
| 28 | Also , the wardens of the Forest of Dean , and of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , were required to account directly at the Exchequer for the revenues of their bailiwicks , instead of farming them as had been the previous practice . |