Example sentences of "what [vb past] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Today 's announcement comes at the end of what had been a successful decade for the Trust . |
| 3 | They were in what had been a walled garden and was now just a mass of rubble . |
| 4 | On the Monday , the bulldozer moved in and turned what had been a rough path into a track about 8 feet wide . |
| 5 | Said Platt : ‘ The haggling over the contract spoiled what had been a good summer for me . |
| 6 | What had been a small dark circle was a larger dark circle , with just a suspicion of smoke or steam around its edges . |
| 7 | It is shortened to just the second and third phrases , both of which are cadentially ‘ open ’ , and so what had been a self-sufficient arch shape is turned into continuous , open-ended variative repetition ( see Ex. 1.2 ) . |
| 8 | It was midway through the second half of Saturday 's game at Kingsholm , when what had been a fair game , turned foul . |
| 9 | In a few hours she would come face to face once more with that same man who was responsible for his death and this time she was intent on making absolutely sure that what had been a teenage crush on her part remained just that . |
| 10 | The result was that what had been a small-sized cheap labour force became a large well-paid labour force . |
| 11 | But as she made her way back to the table , Polly 's fierce satisfaction at having the last word in what had been a nerve-shattering encounter quickly faded . |
| 12 | Then , in the sixteenth century , what had been a military building was converted by the Albret dynasty , who were now the rulers here , into a sophisticated civilian one , suitable as a home for courtly pursuits — there are some fine Renaissance doorways and windows dating from that conversion on the left and at the far end of the very irregular courtyard into which you first go . |
| 13 | It was his first refreshment in what had been a heavy and unrewarding day ; his leading lady had been difficult , and wanted to marry him ; the audience , confronted with an expensive cast , had been unresponsive . |
| 14 | The Bridges Community Centre was opened in 1987 in what had been a derelict factory canteen on a large industrial site in Monmouth . |
| 15 | She stared down at the floor and the remains of what had been a human being . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At Bridgwater , in the following month , Vernon Bartlett , a Liberal supporter of the " Peace Alliance " , was elected as a " Progressive " in what had been a National seat . |
| 18 | At this point , the strain on Renee Henry 's marriage became too much , and what had been a troubled relationship crumbled . |
| 19 | Finance Ministry officials specifically related the reduction in the rate of increase for defence expenditure to the relaxation of tension between what had been the Soviet bloc and the West . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |
| 22 | What had been the living style of a whole region , modified to suit all classes of people , became a piece of pleasant antiquarianism for a rich man . |
| 23 | But if a woman should ask for a particular garment , he would take her into what had been the front room of the house and there , in comparative privacy , she could make her choice and try on the clothes . |
| 24 | The speeches of Finbar O'Doherty and Eamonn Melaugh were more militant in tone but they did not demur from Hume 's denial of what had been the central purpose of the DHAC — the unity of the working class around a material grievance . |
| 25 | Only when that has been fully experienced can the bereaved person take what had been the good parts of the lost relationship and find a new relationship into which those positive feelings can be renewed . |
| 26 | By the early sixth century Italy was in the hands of the Ostrogoths ; France was divided between the Franks , the Burgundians and the Visigoths , who also controlled Spain ; what had been the Roman province of Africa had been transformed into the Vandal kingdom . |
| 27 | It had been bored or dug or had occurred naturally at an incline of about thirty degrees , so that all the way down into the mine , holding onto the rope , they had had purchase for their feet , had almost been able to walk don , though describing it thus made a dull and orthodox act of what had been the great adventure of their boyhood . |
| 28 | He may have meant the general composition of what had been the whole great building : who is to say that he did not also intend the look , smell , feel and silence of these stones ? |
| 29 | He had made his headquarters in what had been the presidential suite of the Hilton hotel . |
| 30 | By looking at the kinship terms of a society one could therefore know by this means what had been the previous kinship system , practised in the past by the people concerned . |