Example sentences of "[adv] [ex0] had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally there had been shoes and a fine pair of leather boots . |
| 2 | But already there had been hints that this would not be her day . |
| 3 | Where once there had been simplicity there was now multiplicity . |
| 4 | Telling Luke had given her no satisfaction ; there was no feeling of well-being or sweet revenge , just a cold , forlorn emptiness , where once there had been hope . |
| 5 | [ See Fig. 3 ] Where once the smooth cone of Vesuvius had risen , only a shattered stump now remained ; where once there had been fields and vineyards and all the normal clutter of the countryside there now stretched a silent grey carpet of ash , mantling everything like a thick , dirty snowfall . |
| 6 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |
| 7 | This was one of the voyages in which the men of science were in charge , in that the point of the expedition was scientific ; often there had been frustration among scientists on voyages because the captain 's instructions , or his interpretation of them , did not let him stay at interesting places as long as they would have liked , or put enough boats and crews at their disposal . |
| 8 | Earlier there had been reports that actress Julie Walters was having to confront the fact that her child had leukaemia . |
| 9 | Then there had been Paul 's breakdown , and Nathan Holland had been invaluable there also ; she would have run mad without him . |
| 10 | And then there had been Julius 's mother , always dressed in dark , expensive suits , with every strand of her silver hair set firmly into place . |
| 11 | The capital fund remained at £113 and again there had been money spent on the course ‘ several new tees ; several altered and new bunkers ; green treatments and alterations ’ . |
| 12 | It is often assumed that Foucault is simply the philosopher of discontinuity , merely substituting it where previously there had been continuity ; but the discontinuous is emphasized only because so much stress is normally placed on the continuous . |