Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a town twenty miles from the school the story was that he was guilty and had been sacked . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Oh yes , and Springsteen was okay but had been sick on the stairs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Even though she was walking normally I felt worried and thought maybe she was sick or had been hurt . |
| 13 | ‘ He joined the RAF when he was 17 and had been flying 35 years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
| 17 | The behaviour of the Ministry was illegal and has been condemned by the Parliamentary ombudsman . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Voter turnout , at 68.3 per cent , was higher than had been expected , and the elections had proceeded smoothly with no violence . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The house was immaculate and had been furnished , as far as she could tell , like something out of a design magazine . |
| 22 | So too could it where the charge was insufficient but had been misstated . |
| 23 | An example of such a case is Bjorlow ( GB ) Ltd v Minter [ 1954 ] 71 RPC 321 in which the employer claimed that a process was secret and had been wrongfully used and disclosed by the defendant , a former employee . |
| 24 | Miss Barton was 87 and had been a midwife all her working life . |
| 25 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 26 | I did n't repeat this in case it was untrue but heard about 9am that it was true and had been broadcast . |
| 27 | Arthur Skyrne was 59 and had been on the dole for ten years when he joined Roseberry ; now he is site safety officer and one of the directors of the company . |