Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 2 | In most of the areas in which riots occurred there had been a breakdown in community/police relations ; the public distrusted the police and they had no confidence in the police complaints machinery . |
| 3 | Very significantly , in comparing his study with another carried out 19 years before , Gorer found there had been a marked increase in this expressed appreciation of the sexual factor in marriage — even more marked in women than in men . |
| 4 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 5 | She was squatting down in the photograph and Sabrina estimated her to have been a little over five feet with a slender petite figure and a pale , milky complexion . |
| 6 | Like the Edwardians , the Mods assumed what had been an exclusively and outrageously homosexual style and used it as a key to cross into the ‘ private ’ space of the body and of self-discovery ; unlike their forebears , they were far more intimately involved with black culture , from the new black music of the Tamla and Sue labels , to the ‘ bluebeat ’ clubs that were opening , as an index of Britain 's more visible black community . |
| 7 | She could find nothing to say , and as she sat avoiding his eyes she realised she 'd been a fool . |
| 8 | Meg realized she 'd been a complete fool . |
| 9 | And then on the left hand side the old houses continue and the female I interviewed er I reckoned there had been a house there that had been knocked down , and they built a wee bungalow . |
| 10 | But Mr Bowman said Home Office figures showed there had been a 43 per cent reduction in crime by under-14s . |
| 11 | The broadcast , which featured Mr Hurd , Foreign Secretary , and Mr Heseltine , Environment Secretary , acknowledged there had been a recession which had caused pain for some people . |
| 12 | From 1971 to 1977 he was the head coach of the Washington Redskins professional football team , and turned what had been a lacklustre bunch into a city 's obsession . |
| 13 | On the Monday , the bulldozer moved in and turned what had been a rough path into a track about 8 feet wide . |
| 14 | The events between the formation of the first National Government and the general election , however , turned what had been an incipient three-party system into an unbalanced two-party system in which the Conservatives , reinforced by defectors from the Liberal and Labour parties , the Liberal Nationals , and National Labour party , were the obvious beneficiaries . |
| 15 | ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life ! |
| 16 | Not entirely to my surprise , I discovered there had been a frenzy of activity in my absence , and number four hundred and fifteen had come and gone . |
| 17 | Since you signed it 's been a little bit up and down , some goals conceded , not necessarily down to you , so you must be pleased that things have settled down a bit ? |
| 18 | The jury heard he had been a friend of Lady Cross for 12 years and had no history of violence . |
| 19 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 20 | Goff and another , the National Industrial Relations Court ruled there had been a constructive dismissal . |
| 21 | But he had paid part of that apothecary 's bill that very morning , and the attorney to whom the bailiff took him agreed there had been a mistake . |
| 22 | But as he cut into one using a power saw , an alarm sounded , and he realised there 'd been a leak of radioactive tritium gas . |
| 23 | All of a sudden , she realised there had been a collective intake of breath and that everyone around her was staring at the monitors . |
| 24 | Later he admitted there had been a misinterpretation about the exchange . |
| 25 | The SPD accordingly took over Lower Saxony 's five seats in the Bundesrat ( upper house of the federal parliament ) to have a total of 27 seats , with the result that the government CDU-Christian Social Union ( CSU ) -Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) coalition , now with 18 seats , lost what had been a one-seat majority . |
| 26 | And I knew I had been a child when I first came to live with him . |
| 27 | Before papa died she had been a child , spoiled and cosseted and it was a pity she had not grown up a bit more quickly . |
| 28 | Yet though she knew she 'd been a fool and totally lacking in self-control , still tangled in the sensual web he 'd spun so effortlessly , she could n't regret it . |
| 29 | The researchers concluded that ‘ one may infer that many felt there had been a conflict between studying for interest 's sake and studying for examination success ’ . |
| 30 | Regarding effect on lifestyle , 154 ( 36% ) sufferers felt there had been a great deal or fair amount of effect ( 55 ( 45% ) men and 99 ( 34% ) women ) . |