Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The structure of universities in Germany , France , Britain and the USA was very different , but everywhere they were by the end of the century centres of scientific research , while at the beginning of it they had mostly been very marginal to it . |
| 2 | The anti-Semitism that he there encountered made him more conscious of the Jewishness that had not been particularly important to him before . |
| 3 | In particular , it examined how the current financial arrangements worked , and concluded that these had not been especially favourable to the Scottish licence feepayer . |
| 4 | It was the final proof that perhaps , after all , she had not been as inferior to her sister as she had imagined . |
| 5 | The man she had just interviewed , a Mr Liam Groves , had not been too happy to be interviewed on Boxing Day . |
| 6 | Against Chamberlain it was remembered that he was a Liberal Unionist ( as was Lansdowne , who led the Unionists in the Lords ) and that he had not been entirely loyal to Balfour since the referendum pledge . |
| 7 | They had not been so good to her ; she had lost too many things , too many friends , too much of herself . |
| 8 | If their bodies had not been quite crushed to death by the labours they had been forced to perform for their Egyptian taskmasters , then surely their spirits had been . |
| 9 | No more letters for many a year now from Miss Mitford , none from Miss Trepsack , none from Mrs Jameson , who had always been so kind to her . |
| 10 | She gave him a morsel of hope because he had always been so kind to her . |
| 11 | He had always been very kind to her . |
| 12 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 13 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 14 | In late 1989 the LTTE and the Sri Lankan security forces had both been fiercely hostile to the " Tamil National Army " , a coalition of Tamil militias initially formed in support of the Indian Peace-Keeping Force [ see pp. 37126 ; 37185 ] . |
| 15 | In fact , his parents had both been excruciatingly polite to her , but that had only made it even more obvious that she was n't the kind of wife they wanted for their clever , ambitious son . |
| 16 | There was something else now ; something that had n't been immediately apparent to Cardiff , but had been seen by the others straightaway and which was causing them to back away from the wall . |
| 17 | She had never been so close to a young man before . |
| 18 | He had never been this close to him before , though of course he had seen him from a distance on parade , the short , brisk figure in green and white , dwarfed by the forest of cocked hats around , yet somehow contriving to dominate them all . |
| 19 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |