Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his case words and the mental images that they created were the only available means of communication with his people . |
| 2 | As Lepine would appear to have done : the Lortie to whom he referred was the Canadian Armed Forces Corporal Dennis Lortie , who had killed three and wounded fourteen when he burst in on the Quebec National Assembly with a machine gun five years earlier . |
| 3 | But Ingrid almost denies this : ‘ I 'd been the typical first-year art-school person , entrenched in one style that was really landscapey — all earthy colours and shapes . |
| 4 | The three groups rejected were the Jordanian Communist Party ; the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party ; and the Jordan People 's Democratic Party.The five groups approved were the Jordan National Alliance ( a coalition of central and southern Bedouin tribes ) ; the rightist Pledge ( al-Ahd ) Party ; the Islamic Action Party ( which was backed by the Moslem Brotherhood ) ; and two pan-Arab centrist groups , the Popular Union Party and the Future ( Mustaqbal ) Party . |
| 5 | right , popcorn starts off as little , like little brown seedy things and when it gets heated up it all pops up into fluffy white stuff , those little brown bits that nobody ate were the hard little bead things that did n't pop up , sometimes they do n't pop up you see |
| 6 | They were persons who had been brain-washed by years of experience of disengaging from colonies and saw Northern Ireland as another external colony from which Great Britain was destined to disengage in order to hand it back to the natives whom they assumed were the republican Irish of the island as a whole . |
| 7 | In the early 1970s he introduced a type of tournament competition called knockdown , which , since it allows full power strikes to the body , he believed was the only true test of a karateka 's fighting ability . |
| 8 | The effortful shepherding of one 's confusion and faint nausea , which I assumed was the basic existential package , turns out to have been a temporary condition . |
| 9 | The third was the treatment by similars which he stated was the only sure way , apart from prevention , to treat disease . |
| 10 | The cat from which our domesticated animals originated was the African wild cat . |
| 11 | But what I in fact saw was the familiar white chalk of north-west Europe with black flints and old fossil friends such as Micrarter and Echinocorys . |
| 12 | Two of the men now hoisted her up , and when she was seated in the chair she slowly opened her eyes , and the first thing she saw was the great broad face of Betty Felton . |
| 13 | Once outside the house she darted quickly along the road then through a gap in a hedge and the last I saw was the little black figure flitting over the rain-swept grass of a field . |
| 14 | One tripper on 1960 had been the future Black Dwarf journalist , feminist and socialist , Sheila Rowbotham , fresh out of Yorkshire Methodist boarding school and en route to Oxford . |
| 15 | The issue which provided the main focus of disagreement , and which had also thwarted progress on the CFE and START negotiations , had been the future political and military status of a united Germany . |
| 16 | The Suez debacle had been the great emblematic event for Healey , as for many others of his generation , vividly demonstrating the gulf between imperial pretence and potential . |
| 17 | Gin had been the great popular comfort of Paradise Street in her childhood , gin and tea , so she took it as someone from another background might have made a dish of bread and milk . |
| 18 | There had been the occasional martial bishops , of course , ever since Odo of Bayeux came across with the Conqueror , not least perhaps because of the knightly or aristocratic houses from which some prelates came , but also because the bishop was often the sole or wealthiest magnate present to defend an exposed region when so many others were away on continental engagements . |
| 19 | Ould Taya was supported by what had been the sole legal party , the Democratic and Social Republican Party ( Parti républicain démocratique et social — PRDS ) , and by the army . |
| 20 | Geraldine Ferraro , who had been the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1984 , once again suffered because of her husband 's alleged connections with the Mafia and failed to win the Democratic nomination for a Senate seat for New York . |
| 21 | France had been the western European nation most opposed to American concepts of data free flow . |
| 22 | There had been the usual time-consuming , wearying and slightly acrimonious preliminaries to the setting up of the new squad in C1 and already his mind was reaching out with relief to the solitary contemplation of alabaster effigies , sixteenth-century glass and the awesome decorations of Winchfield . |
| 23 | There had been the usual final frenzy to get the parks ready for festival week , and various people had been smitten with untimely summer flu . |
| 24 | Albania , which had been the only European non-participant , had expressed its desire to join and was granted observer status at the summit , but on Nov. 20 lodged a formal complaint stating that " the failure of some states to allow a consensus for Albania 's full participation … is incomprehensible " [ see also pp. 37385 ; 37746-47 ] . |
| 25 | Apart from Granny Tremayne , Edna had been the only other permanent reliable character in Celia 's youth . |
| 26 | It knew that the incident had been the only serious act of indiscipline during the strike and that Wilson had used it in his speech to taunt and smear the Ulster people . |
| 27 | It had been Eleanor , quiet , firm , devoted whom Dorothea had loved , and Eleanor had been the only living person whose presence she could bear when Hallam died a year after their coming to Haverstock . |
| 28 | Experience was regarded as " limited " in variety if among the youngest age group it was little or nothing ; among unmarried subjects over the age of 20 if there had been no sexual intercourse nor other stimulation to orgasm by another person ; and among older or married people if sexual intercourse , with its preliminary manual love-play , had been the only sexual activity . |
| 29 | From the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 , England had been the dominant financial and commercial power in Europe and , on that basis , in the global economy ; the structural changes in the 1830s and 1840s were to consolidate that hegemony . |
| 30 | The Yemen Socialist Party ( Ali Salim al-Bid s. -g. ) , which had been the dominant political power in South Yemen prior to unification , remained a force in the unified Republic . |