Example sentences of "had [been] [prep] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Legislative power in the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) , a name adopted in April 1989 by what had been since 1979 the People 's Republic of Kampuchea [ for previous names see p. 37289 ] , is vested in the National Assembly .
2 I was spellbound : I had never known anybody who had been to such a faraway country .
3 She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’
4 For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction .
5 The tension between them , the sexual feeling , had been at such a pitch .
6 He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing .
7 A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home .
8 But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position .
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