Example sentences of "[conj] had [been] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of the ‘ literate mentality ’ that these institutions helped to form in England , and to which Lyons and fellow academics now subscribe , later historians , looking back to records of eleventh century England , tended to discard medallions , seals and other material objects that had been major criteria of validation in the oral culture of that period . |
| 2 | Have n't talked since that marvellous Bassanio you did at the Vic ’ — that had been fifteen years before — ‘ lovely performance . ’ |
| 3 | But my experience is also , if we 'd bought the books that had been printed neighbours in the first place , no one would have noticed the difference . |
| 4 | All that had been two months ago . |
| 5 | Beattie was a senior foreman and had been twenty years with his company . |