Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |
| 2 | The sentences were lighter than had been generally expected ; the military prosecutor on July 14 had asked for life sentences rather than death sentences ( as sought in June ) . |
| 3 | The differences between Blacks and Whites were fewer than have been found in other surveys , though Blacks ' attitudes tended to be less favourable . |
| 4 | But , of course , the client had only approached the lawyer because the solutions she could think of — those available in everyday discourse — were inappropriate or had been tried and had failed . |
| 5 | It found that the build-up of methane in the atmosphere had slowed down , and suggested that emissions of methane from rice paddies were less than had been previously estimated . |
| 6 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 7 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 8 | Performance itself soon established norms which by 1950 were higher than had been hoped for in 1945 ; and then , as European recovery got underway , the standard became even more precise and , for Britain , more formidable . |
| 9 | Informix exceeded its stated goal during times when it undershot its hiring figures or revenues were greater than had been expected , White told the conference . |
| 10 | All were dead and had been ringed as pulli the summer before recovery . |
| 11 | In a town twenty miles from the school the story was that he was guilty and had been sacked . ’ |
| 12 | The trial , which had begun on March 5 , was shorter than had been anticipated both because Poindexter chose not to give evidence himself , and because the prosecution was successful in eliciting incriminating evidence from its chief witness , Oliver North , Poindexter 's subordinate at the National Security Council . |
| 13 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 14 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |
| 15 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 16 | In 1976 twenty-six men died in the Scotia mine , which was unsafe and had been the subject of 652 citing-for-violations of safety regulations ( Caudill 1977 ) . |
| 17 | She was dressed in a clumsy black skirt and a heavy grey cardigan , and , in honour of the occasion , had put on her best apron , which was white and had been exquisitely embroidered by herself . |
| 18 | We have seen that a defendant , to be convicted under section 14 must be proved to have known that the statement was false or to have been reckless as to its falsity . |
| 19 | Oh yes , and Springsteen was okay but had been sick on the stairs . |
| 20 | The royal court in Egypt was then one of the most cosmopolitan in the work ; Fawzia was sophisticated and had been accustomed to great luxury and pampering , no least from her doting brother . |
| 21 | Although he had had a distinguished military record as a young man , he was sixty-two and had been engaged in predominantly civil duties for the previous twenty years . |
| 22 | Even though she was walking normally I felt worried and thought maybe she was sick or had been hurt . |
| 23 | ‘ He joined the RAF when he was 17 and had been flying 35 years . |
| 24 | Although not sufficient to restore the LDP 's overall majority in the upper chamber , it was a considerable improvement on the party 's disastrous performance in the 1989 election — where it had lost its majority — and was better than had been generally predicted prior to the beginning of the campaign . |
| 25 | The improvement in January was better than had been expected in December , sales of both vehicles and parts and accessories increased and the trade is looking forward to a further improvement in February . |
| 26 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
| 27 | The behaviour of the Ministry was illegal and has been condemned by the Parliamentary ombudsman . |
| 28 | Even where his name had appeared , however , the percentage of the vote which he had managed to achieve was smaller than had been widely anticipated . |
| 29 | Voter turnout , at 68.3 per cent , was higher than had been expected , and the elections had proceeded smoothly with no violence . |
| 30 | Unless , therefore the guarantee was void as having been made for an illegal consideration or voidable on the ground of economic duress , the extrinsic evidence establishes that it was supported by valid consideration . |