Example sentences of "had been [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy to pin-point the period of time within which the theft must have occurred , and not too difficult — was it ? — to find out where the great majority of you had been during the crucial forty-five minutes . |
| 2 | Even the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) , though working to a different agenda from that of other critics of the official line , felt that the Libyan contribution to the Lockerbie disaster had been of a low-level technical nature . |
| 3 | In 1902 he founded the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club and although this was snobbishly restricted to those who had been to a British public school , the club was instrumental in establishing winter sports as a popular type of holiday . |
| 4 | His father had been to the Wesleyan Collegiate Institution at Taunton until the age of sixteen , when he had left and gone into the business . |
| 5 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 6 | Every night was a milestone , and had been for the past fifteen years . |
| 7 | A Welsh dealer had been at the fair last year but had not returned this year , much to the disappointment of many of the visitors . |
| 8 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 9 | This was the first time that he had been past the big covered back porch of her house , and everything was new and interesting . |
| 10 | With whom only months ago I had been like every other new recruit ; |
| 11 | Also , although there were marked fluctuations in the number of admissions from year to year , it is clear that from about 1490 the numbers of those admitted at York were consistently lower than they had been from the mid 1380s to the 1440s . |
| 12 | He had been in a persistent vegetative state since being crushed in the Hillsborough disaster on April 15 , 1989 . |
| 13 | The old Union station had been in a rambling neo-Romanesque style , but the new one was to match the grandest of the American Beaux-Arts school , and in some ways surpass them . |
| 14 | Those at the exiled Court became hopelessly out of touch with political realities in post-Revolutionary England ; many of them were living in the world as they thought it had been in the late 1680s , and their platform increasingly appeared to have less and less relevance to the new problems facing England . |
| 15 | Modules were built in the early 1980s in much the same way as they had been in the late 1960s , with little technical or organizational change . |
| 16 | They show considerable fluctuations in the annual level of real wages , but are markedly higher in the early fifteenth century than they had been in the late fourteenth . |
| 17 | We learned that there were still , or had been in the late 1950s , a fair number of working schooners in Nova Scotia . |
| 18 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 19 | My first appearance had been in the Junior Indoor Championships the previous year , when I had been eliminated in the heats . |
| 20 | Newcastle were the Cup holders , had been in the final five times in seven years and were three times League champions . |
| 21 | On the Monday , though , Slater had been in the small steamy cafe and sandwich bar on Red Lion Street which he usually spent most of his term days in , and Graham had supplied him with cups of tea and expensive rounds of smoked salmon on granary bread while Slater slowly , teasingly , told him about Sara . |
| 22 | Migration may have been a factor in the 1920s , though the level of net migration from Britain was somewhat less than it had been in the previous two decades . |
| 23 | This is a parish in the counties of Argyll , Inverness-shire , Ross and Cromarty , Sutherland , Caithness and the northern islands where there was in 1886 , or had been in the previous 80 years , holdings of arable land with rights of common pasture . |