Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] had [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Gentleman had been in earlier , he would have heard the hon. Member for Harrow , East ( Mr. Dykes ) saying that last week he had attended a debate on this subject in the Bundestag . |
| 2 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 3 | The worst peasant uprisings in the Civil War had been against German expeditions in search of food supplies . |
| 4 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
| 5 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 6 | His previous experience had been as assistant boss of one of the smaller London museums . |
| 7 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |
| 8 | Considering that Walter Luff will be forever associated with the modernisation of the Blackpool tramway in the Thirties , it was surprising that his previous appointment had been as Commercial Manager of the West Riding Tramways Company , which had just abandoned its trams . |
| 9 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 10 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 11 | The notion that Pretty Polly was simply beaten by a better horse at the distance on the day was well down the list of possible explanations for her defeat , and George Lambton aired the widely held view that jockeyship had proved the decisive factor : Bachelor 's Button ‘ was a sterling good horse , especially at Ascot , but he was not a Persimmon , and if a real good jockey had been on Pretty Polly I think she might just have scrambled home . ’ |
| 12 | Its first political use had been by extreme conservatives against Bismarck ; during his struggle against the socialists antisemitism spread to all parties on the Right . |
| 13 | In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out . |
| 14 | From where she stood , working access to the most inner room had been via remote control arms and full-sized plastic window-suits set in the wall with their own flexi-corridors that stretched out behind the deeper the technician moved into the room . |
| 15 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 16 | The Soviet Union had been in close contact with the Iranians , Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Belonogov having visited Tehran on Feb. 5-8 for talks with Vellayati and with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmoud Va'ezi . |
| 17 | Until April 1992 all his flying experience had been on conventional three-axis control aircraft . |
| 18 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
| 19 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 20 | The most staggering growth had been in public employment and in social security transfer payments , two forms of growth politicians find very hard to limit . |