Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] had [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That look had been far from cold , and her insides had melted . |
| 2 | If that opportunity had been available to him , who knows what difference it might have made ? |
| 3 | ‘ So the retired baker had been right . |
| 4 | Unless the hypothetical killer had been careless enough to leave part of Dora 's golf-club visible , her chances of finding it must be virtually nil . |
| 5 | The Technical College had been disappointed in not being nominated a college of advanced technology , and the Principal wrote in 1965 that ‘ prior to the publication of the Robbins Report we confidently expected to be designated as one of the colleges of advanced technology … |
| 6 | In the end the fourteen-stone collier had been glad to see the back of her . |
| 7 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 8 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious since 1948 but was worse on some occasions than on others . |
| 9 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 10 | The Court was entitled to see whether all the conditions necessary to the formation of a proper contract had been satisfied . |
| 11 | Afterwards many people said this experience had been traumatic but positive . |
| 12 | Previous findings over this hypothesis had been contradictory . |
| 13 | Offenders in this category had been responsible for more than their share of the increase in crimes of violence , but the enhanced rate of offending at these ages extended to crimes of all kinds . |
| 14 | Later , however , he conceded that this attempt had been unsuccessful , and his earlier rigorous separation of science and ideology misguided . |
| 15 | Introducing direct rule had been easy enough ; ending it was a problem . |
| 16 | It was known , also , that the old lady had been friendly with his mother ; and anyway , being a bachelor and retired , he could usually be counted on to take sufferers to hospital in emergency , or bring them home ; as well as visiting murderers in prison , and other tasks ( often called do-gooding by people who have never been remotely in need of that particular little world ) . |
| 17 | The old lady had been deaf for years and had what she called a ‘ thing-gummyjig ’ on her telephone receiver which was intended to help her hear her callers more clearly . |
| 18 | The previous day four men from this village had been surprised and killed by Asaimara from Bahdu , less than two hundred yards from where we camped . |
| 19 | But the test itself was also changed , from gross indecency , which like the deprave-and-corrupt test had been adequate to catch most child pornography , to the lesser test of indecency , the precise meaning of which is left to the jury to assess according to their own standards of propriety for children or young people . |
| 20 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 21 | Their report clearly indicated that this coroner had been wrong in his judgement of how he should conduct his inquest which , in the opinion of the committee , should have been held after the public inquiry into the cause of the accident . |
| 22 | In fact , as the THES noted at the time , the dispute leading to this crisis had been simmering in relative privacy for some time . |
| 23 | About twice a day , she 'd ask herself whether this move had been right for him . |
| 24 | Defying the need to slump her head dejectedly on to her arms , to howl long and hard that every minute of this evening had been utter hell and that all she wanted now was to curl up safe and warm in her own bed . |
| 25 | While the ebb and flow to this point had been absorbing stuff , the ensuing capitulation was nothing short of astonishing , far more dramatic and conclusive than that suffered by England two years ago ; but still never totally unexpected on a pitch showing wear and uneven bounce in equal measure . |
| 26 | Hitherto musico-dramatic entertainments at the French Court had been similar to the Italian intermedii , though with an ever increasing proportion of dancing , as in the famous Balet comique de la Royne ( 1581 ) devised , but not written or composed , by an Italian known in France as Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx , and the more dramatic ballets de cour composed by Guedron . |
| 27 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 28 | Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir , claimed that this delay had been due to the unwillingness of the Torit group to accept the participation of the Nasir group in the peace negotiations . |
| 29 | If he had set out to prove that the passionate interlude on the road this morning had been genuine on his part he had certainly succeeded . |
| 30 | Idealists could claim that British policy had been tardy and hesitant . |