Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Describing 1989 as ‘ a fantastic year for freedom ’ , Mrs Thatcher said 1979 had been a turning point in history and Conservatives were the pathfinders . |
| 2 | To a considerable extent the Europe of the Six had been a Christian Democrat creation . |
| 3 | But the road to 1918 had been a troubled one . |
| 4 | Another BTO survey found that 1992 had been a good breeding season for songbirds . |
| 5 | Like 1929 , 1949 had been a bad year for believing that God was on America 's side . |
| 6 | World War I had been a desperate see-saw battle up till its closing days . |
| 7 | The last years of Henry VII had been a prosperous period for the port — the average annual sum paid in customs dues from 1504 to 1509 was over £10,000 , and in the early years of Henry VIII a group of merchants had maintained voyages to Brazil . |
| 8 | 1951 had been a good year for Minton . |
| 9 | Before the US Justice Department brought its indictment of the Libyans on 14 November , 1991 , the intelligence community 's working theory was that the bombing of the Boeing 747 had been a co-ordinated effort of Syria , Libya and Iran . |
| 10 | The arrest and interrogation of the IRA suspects in 1971 had been a military operation with only one or two RUC men of low rank involved in a supporting role and under army direction . |
| 11 | For on that Saturday Mr Pozsgay organised a radio interview to tell the world that a party committee working under him had come to the conclusion that 1956 had been a popular uprising , thus ensuring that the terms of reference in Hungarian politics would never be the same again . |
| 12 | The last person to have the title emperor conferred on him by a pope before 962 had been a minor Italian prince , Berengar I , who had died in 924 . |
| 13 | For the industry as a whole , however , 1990 had been a bad year , with the Gulf war scuppering much of the expected sales growth , and planned new capacity raising the spectre of price wars and poor returns for manufacturers . |
| 14 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |