Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Ceauşescu managed was to marry the traditions of conspiracy and tight discipline , developed by Lenin and Stalin to bring the Communist Party to power , with the local legacy of Ottoman rule : the methods and the morals of cosa nostra . |
| 2 | What Thorfinn did was earn a breathing-space , and the right to lodge some sort of defence in the area . |
| 3 | Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time . |
| 4 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 5 | Mitra had been considered the leading rival to Ramos for Aquino 's endorsement . |
| 6 | Mr Justice Otton was told they regretted helping to give currency to the allegation that John Major and Miss Latimer had been conducting an adulterous relationship . |
| 7 | Although Bernice had been dealt a few rough cards in her life , she still thought that there could be something better . |
| 8 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 9 | Britta had been watching the other woman — the one the Doctor called Benny — when the screens had come on . |
| 10 | Lucy had been reading The Saint from her father 's shelves when all of the other girls had their noses in Black Beauty . |
| 11 | The Earl of Hyndford had been sent a box of earth from the ‘ innermost parts of the Cherokee nation ’ . |
| 12 | John Rodwell , a specialist inspector from the Health and Safety Executive , said it appeared Mr Eaton had been using the burning torch to cut at the edge of the slot at one end of the pipe trying to open it and hot gases could have caused it to become dislodged and fall . |
| 13 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 14 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 15 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 16 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 17 | So Johnny had been afforded a glimpse of her own time , had he ? |
| 18 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 19 | It is highly likely that she was the same woman that Emma Southwick imagined was having a nip with Tiller in the back room during rehearsals way back in the St James 's Hall times . |
| 20 | Yassir Arafat and Kemal Jumblatt had been summoned the previous winter to Damascus , where they told Assad that they were winning the war and wished to move all the way into the Christian heartland . |
| 21 | Forestry interests and landowners in Scotland had been lobbying the Scottish Office to draw the teeth of the NCC because it had been too successful in defending the uplands from conifers . |
| 22 | Gould had been given a number of letters of introduction to the veteran explorer from , among others , George Bank , who had accompanied Franklin on one of his Arctic expeditions , and Captain John Washington , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 23 | For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge . |
| 24 | Officials in Washington had been sounding the warning for over four years , noting that Guatemala is a trans-shipment point for Colombian cocaine and heroin heading north to the United States and Mexico . |
| 25 | Eva had been born the year of the Wall Street crash . |
| 26 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 27 | To the Ryans and their like , Anthony had been given a magnificent send-off . |
| 28 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 29 | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Berdennikov said on Sept. 14 that the Soviet Union and later Russia had been violating a 1972 treaty banning germ warfare , at least until March 1992 . |
| 30 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |