Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [adv] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was walking towards a new life , a kind of freedom which had only been an idealistic daydream for nearly sixty years . |
| 2 | His religious faith , which had always been a rationalistic , brittle thing , simply broke apart . |
| 3 | This replaced section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 which had long been the main public order offence and which had been used in a wide range of situations including demonstrations , football hooliganism , " streaking " and industrial disputes . |
| 4 | The strict controls over our life at school , our terrible school uniform and the climate of East Yorkshire conspired against either of these sexual eventualities , which had apparently been the common run of existence in Trinidad . |
| 5 | But as the surplus rural housing was gradually soaked up by commuters and second home owners , and as housing which had once been a damning indictment of years of neglect and deprivation was restored and renovated , so relative scarcity began to increase prices above those prevailing for comparable suburban and even urban housing . |
| 6 | The one which had once been the spare room she now occupied permanently . |
| 7 | During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the pace of Mediterranean commercial life slackened and the inland sea , which had once been the major artery of European trade , became a cul-de-sac . |
| 8 | He was philosophical , not to say laid back about the inconvenience of being called out unnecessarily at the end of what had already been a long day . |
| 9 | Not only does she execute embroideries , but designs them too — thereby encroaching on what had formerly been a male preserve . |
| 10 | Politically , it was essential last summer to distance the government from what had clearly been a shabby episode . |
| 11 | The April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) won 19 seats , marking a clear breakthrough in what had historically been a two-party system dominated by the PL and the PSC . |
| 12 | This was reflected in a loosening of what had traditionally been a strong correlation between landownership and civil and military office , especially at the highest level . |
| 13 | The new Arrangements are very similar to the 1988 Scheme , the main , and welcome , change being the removal of the lower tier in what had previously been a two-tier system for remuneration for advice at police stations : a solicitor could undertake up to £90 of work , extendable retrospectively , where the client was in custody for an arrestable offence , but only up to £50 ( non-extendable ) otherwise . |
| 14 | More important what had previously been a low-visibility discretionary payment overnight turned into highly visible as-of-right entitlement . |
| 15 | And she went on to explain to him how they would now have to hasten what had previously been a very leisure long-term affair , at least in her mind . |
| 16 | Yet what had previously been an alternative tendency within the general social order , and in some respects a central tendency within the rising industrial bourgeoisie , was now , in this crisis , shifted into an oppositional tendency . |
| 17 | The children , however , were persistent and led the way round to the side of the building , stopping at what had probably been a small parcels office . |
| 18 | He told himself that the office would have been an addition , built onto the end of what had before been an exterior wall of brick and therefore powerful enough to hold back the spread of the flames . |
| 19 | The sudden chill of isolation which Britain felt in a hostile world , and the thrill of Dominion contingents serving alongside troops from ‘ home ’ , raised in new form what had long been a nagging conundrum — that the outlying parts of the Empire which Britain defended bore no appreciable share of the burden , precisely because of the fundamental political syllogism : no taxation without representation ; no representation without common responsibility ; no common responsibility without sacrifice of separate independence . |
| 20 | Joseph Maloney , secretary of the local angling association , said at the time that earlier , less serious pollution caused by Mogul had killed all fish life in what had once been a good trout and salmon river . |
| 21 | And a mess of twisted brass bonded with what had once been a small but efficient pulse-receiver . |
| 22 | Her window looked out of the back of the house , onto what had once been a small garden . |
| 23 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 24 | The cliffs which had proved so difficult bordered a valley a mile or more across , the bed of what had once been a great , meandering river . |
| 25 | We had a collection of cars , mostly rather old , but here was an example of what had once been a great cultural status symbol . |
| 26 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 27 | The glade where the ghost orchids grew amid the crumbling remains of what had once been a Roman villa was as cool as the church , and an unmistakable smell of summer blossoms mingled with the lush green growth of the wood . |
| 28 | What had once been a pleasant Saturday afternoon 's entertainment was fast becoming a greedy , unskilled exercise to satisfy the demands of the uninitiated . |
| 29 | What an inglorious end to what had once been a busy loco shed that had been the scene of so much activity in its heyday . |
| 30 | The child watched her now stand up in her stockinged feet on what had once been a fine Persian rug but was now worn in parts to its back , and unpin her hat . |