Example sentences of "had been [adj] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 2 | Indeed during the Second World War a British officer of some distinction , Fitzroy Maclean , had actually arrested Zahedi on grounds he had been intriguing with German agents . |
| 3 | It was widely suspected that the Tucayana had links with the military and had been involved with anti-insurgency operations against the Jungle Commandos and that they feared the establishment of a police force for the interior composed mainly of former Jungle Commando members . |
| 4 | She had been unpopular with militant nationalists , who suspected her of being too conciliatory towards Moscow , and they voted down her price rise proposals on the grounds that they might prove socially divisive and thus weaken Lithuania 's resistance to Soviet pressure . |
| 5 | The concept of a system was not new because Newton had written on the solar system , biologists had been concerned with living systems , and geography had implicitly used notions of the systems concept since early days of the subject . |
| 6 | For many years biologists and botanists had been concerned with developing methods for eliminating extraneous variables in their research in order that the factor in which they were primarily interested could be more effectively gauged as to its effects . |
| 7 | The first two groups covered those under sixteen and over sixty-five years of age and young persons under eighteen who had been resident with British families , or in an educational establishment prior to internment . |
| 8 | Caro had been so delighted by the job ( spotted by Sue , an advert in the local paper ) that she could feel no sympathy for her mother 's whinings , and the Sunday visits had been stiff with hostile silences . |