Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She was shivering , but it was not with the cold , nor even reaction to what apparently had been a near escape . |
| 2 | Carnelian must know special runes to inscribe around the eye-screen and arcane litanies to incant , to make it serve this two-way purpose , which perhaps had been the true purpose of the device in the first place … |
| 3 | At this point Joan got a surprise visitor ; Vera Long had been a technical instructor in Occupational Therapy in York area hospitals , and enthused about Joan 's marvellous dogs . |
| 4 | But then , yesterday had been a funny old day , clouded as it was by the memory of Steve Blower 's traumatic and tragic death and the image of Jack comforting his parents . |
| 5 | He always had been a perfect gentleman . |
| 6 | Although David Cecil was and always had been a devout Christian , he became the favourite candidate of those who resented the ‘ clerical candidate ’ , the man who had been put up by Lewis , just because he was a Christian . |
| 7 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 8 | She felt remarkably at ease with this man who only three nights before had been a total stranger . |
| 9 | The night before had been a hectic one with seven punters . |
| 10 | This conflict led Marx , and especially Engels , to a disastrous attempt to combine both approaches by arguing that there really had been an early stage in human history which was a mirror image of capitalism . |
| 11 | Even at seventeen , which up to now had been the high point of her existence , the passions raised had not one tithe of the sizzling fire that had been generated by Benedict . |
| 12 | Each stage of the selection process so far had been a complete surprise : the waiting tended to heighten the anticipation and sense of cowed nervousness we all felt . |
| 13 | Today had been a good day . |
| 14 | I remember in eighty four erm there 'd been a general election in eighty three erm there 'd been one third elections in Harlow in , in , in erm i i i in eighty three , there was er a gen the general election and another system of election by thirds in eighty four and then the European election being told by one el elderly lady that there were too many bleeding elections and therefore she was n't gon na vote . |
| 15 | The resolution of this issue , which until then had been a major sticking point [ see pp. 37259 ; 37303 ; 37379 ; 37466 ; 37535 ] , paved the way for the resolution of outstanding issues in the third round of " two-plus-four " talks on July 17 . |
| 16 | The National Assembly was dissolved , and Cape Verde members withdrew from the single party , the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde — PAIGC ) , which until then had been the ruling party in both countries . |
| 17 | Part of his decision to study abroad had been a personal protest against the ditching of full-blooded socialism by Harold Wilson 's Labour government . |
| 18 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 19 | I knew an empty beer keg when I was tied to one , and the last time I 'd seen that particular one there had been a young punk called Emma sitting on it nostrilling certain noxious and probably illegal substances . |
| 20 | A bomb exploded outside the house of Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas in Sana'a on May 15 ; on the night of May 9-10 there had been a similar explosion outside the home of Salim Salih Mohammed , a member of Yemen 's provisional Presidential Council and of the Yemen Socialist Party leadership . |
| 21 | Sergeant Paul McAllister , one of the officers called to the house , said : ‘ It was obvious there had been a physical dispute , although it was over when we arrived . ’ ’ . |
| 22 | The young KGB girl , who only a short time earlier had been the eager recipient of General Vashinov 's favours , smiled at Duncan . |
| 23 | Seeing Nicky again had been an unsettling experience , for two reasons . |
| 24 | And there certainly had been a great deal of stress and tension — almost from the first few weeks following their wedding : Lady Nancy Wyndham 's total opposition to their marriage ; her own mother 's sudden untimely death , followed by her father 's long-drawn-out and eventually terminal illness ; the total immersion of Ross in his business affairs , and — the final catalyst — the affair between Ross and his personal assistant , Marissa Kenton . |