Example sentences of "this [vb past] been [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There has also been a proposal to increase the term of copyright to the life of the author plus 70 years , although this had been subject to some controversy within the EC . |
| 2 | She saw then that saying this had been unpardonable , but the odd thing was that he did pardon her , and laughed , and quietly fished some of the soggy pills out of the sink in case he fancied one later after all . |
| 3 | This had been close-carpeted in a warm golden colour , but Kate guessed it covered more beautiful old wood floors . |
| 4 | If this had been ordinary civil litigation I would have agreed . |
| 5 | A kind of feudal system developed , but this had been present in much of rural Britain throughout the Roman period . |
| 6 | This had been predictable ; and the opposition increased rapidly in the succeeding days . |
| 7 | This had been one of the 150 organizations that had written asking for patronage when Diana became engaged , and had been turned down . |
| 8 | All that the loyalists knew was that their very own Special Constabulary was going to be dismantled and that this had been one of NICRA 's long-standing demands . |
| 9 | Lynch knocked out Peter Kane of Golborne in the thirteenth round , and it was generally agreed that this had been one of the finest contests between flyweight boxers . |
| 10 | This had been one of the demands put forward by the Eco-glasnost group at public protests in Sofia in October 1989 . |
| 11 | This had been first attempted in the early years of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book . |
| 13 | Not that this had been easy . |
| 14 | This had been due to lower earnings in Wales and lower employment opportunity , said Mr MacKay . |
| 15 | ( The French population tended to shift to the towns much more slowly ; we are told the rate was about 3 per cent per decade down to 1911 , and this had been true for a century . ) |
| 16 | The British view of developments in Korea , upon which Britain was rarely approached by the United States — and this had been true since the Yalta conference — was that American policy was blundering and General Hodge inept . |
| 17 | This had been forthcoming , but the Executive Council of the Shipping Federation had been unable to entertain the proposal from an organisation to which , it claimed , not more than one per cent of seamen belonged . |
| 18 | The study revealed that growth of Asian businesses was confined to few areas and , although this had been rapid during the 1970s , it had been declining recently . |
| 19 | This had been obvious to Henry Mayhew in his vivid survey of London Labour and the London poor in 1856 . |
| 20 | This had been evident not merely among adherents of the separatist Parti Québecois , but also within the governing Liberal Party , headed by provincial Premier Robert Bourassa . |
| 21 | This had been ideal for Ewan 's purposes . |
| 22 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
| 23 | This had been more of a thump . |