Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Momentarily she digested the horrible implication , that by nineteen-eighty the work on Titron had reached a stage where an enlarged adult human foetus had presumably already been tested against many diseases — and was a norm . |
| 2 | Neither writer gave McQueen the credit of his own history ; neither enquired into , or assessed , the status he might have had before the ‘ 45 Rebellion , in which he had participated , and by which he had most likely been reduced to keeping this crude but hospitable inn . |
| 3 | Dogged police work by the Lockerbie investigation team , allied with the forensic skill of the Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead , Kent , established that the bomb had most likely been loaded in a suitcase at Malta before being transferred to PanAm 103 at Frankfurt . |
| 4 | It was unclear whether the Ukraine had the power to carry out these resolutions ; the final decisions on such matters had hitherto always been taken in Moscow . |
| 5 | There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody . |
| 6 | The first one occurred during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes at the end of 1944 , when Eisenhower ordered preparations for the evacuation of Strasbourg , which had only just been liberated by Leclerc 's Armoured Division . |
| 7 | It so happened that when John approached the manager and his wife they had only just been moved to the pub with the brief to try and improve relations between the pub and the local community . |
| 8 | As the ubiquity of stellar coronae had only just been discovered with the Einstein Observatory , the absence of coronae for stars of this type was tantalizing , especially as they seemed to disappear rather rapidly ( on an evolutionary timescale ) . |
| 9 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 10 | The Education Act ( Scotland ) , making education compulsory for children from five to thirteen , had only just been passed in 1872 , and the capacity to read complicated copy could by no means be assumed in all girls ( or indeed boys ) even from " respectable artisans " " families , as is illustrated by the remarks of Mr McCrie , the owner of a paper factory , reported in the Edinburgh Daily Review in January 1873 . |
| 11 | Police are investigating the theft of 30 square metres of turf which had only just been laid at St Patrick 's Roman Catholic Church in Owton Manor Lane , Hartlepool . |
| 12 | Charles felt a bit starchy in battle dress which had only just been issued to the TA . |
| 13 | The Philips Tomascan LX CT Scanner had only just been installed at Walton when the bombings took place . |
| 14 | He was run off his legs the last time and he had only just been paid for the quarter . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ This we consider to be a retrograde and unnecessary step , ’ particularly since these powers had only just been vested in the NRA under the Water Act , he said . |
| 16 | Until then these infections had only really been seen in people whose natural defences had been damaged by cancer or by drugs which suppress the immune system . |
| 17 | Had he known that four Pakis were resting their dark arses on his deep leather seats , ready to be driven by his daughter , who had only recently been fucked by one of them , he would n't have been a contented man . |
| 18 | When he arrived to head the Department of Drawings in 1931 it had only recently been split from the paintings department . |
| 19 | In 764 Heahberht , who had witnessed Sigered 's grant of land to Rochester in 762 , appears as king of Kent in the company of Offa and members of the Mercian nobility in Canterbury when Offa granted land to the bishop of Rochester in Kent in his own name ( CS 195 : S 105 ) , the first occasion on which a Mercian king is known to have done so , and the same land which had only recently been granted to Rochester by Sigered and Eanmund . |
| 20 | ( It should be noted that the Phase 3 heads ' comments came from a group whose schools had only recently been brought into PNP and that expressions of dissatisfaction were also voiced at equivalent points in Phases 1 and 2 . |
| 21 | Xenly had only recently been segregated with the invention of the new ‘ control how you look ’ pills . |
| 22 | Smelling the fresh dust in the air he realised that the load of grain in the hopper had only recently been discharged into the stall . |
| 23 | British environmental groups had only recently been roused by appeals from Sweden and Norway . |
| 24 | And yet the matter had so nearly been blessed in a strange and unforeseen way , the Service had almost wriggled off the hook through no credit to itself … |
| 25 | Remembering how responsive Faye 's blood glucose level was to stress , she was about to monitor its level , but , as she got out the kit , Tom arrived , his tall figure catapulting into the room and only a slight untidiness to his dark hair betraying the fact that he had so recently been locked in Marise 's arms in the garden . |
| 26 | In the western United States travellers encountered the native Americans , the Indians who had so often been dispossessed of their lands and livelihoods by the railway companies . |
| 27 | There was , of course , no question of denying India the freedom which had so often been promised in the irresponsibility of opposition . |
| 28 | Those fighter pilots were praised by Churchill , when he made his famous announcement that ‘ Never in the history of human conflict had so much been owed to so few by so many ’ . |
| 29 | On May 29 the government had complained that only 170 firms had so far been transferred to the private sector . |
| 30 | Commenting on more ghastly figures ( see opposite ) Philips Electronics NV chairman Jan Timmer said the Dutch multinational 's performance in 1992 's fourth quarter , which is normally the strongest of the year as people buy electronic toys for Christmas , was very disappointing , and that no let-up in price erosion had so far been seen for 1993 . |