Example sentences of "[adv] [ex0] had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack speculated that perhaps there had been some interference by a superior , or that vandals may have seen the lonely outpost as a target for action . |
| 2 | The report was published in July 1986 and concluded that apparently there had been little work done on the effects of skill mix on patient services and that " a higher priority should be given by management to achieving the best value for money by the adoption of methods of allocating staffing resources more closely related to the needs of patients and ward objectives . |
| 3 | If only there had been some worked examples , we may have been able to follow the article . |
| 4 | Public sector housing development had followed the guidelines more closely than the private sector , but even so there had been substantial investment in some non-key villages . |
| 5 | Half a universe away there had been another tunic cuff , the gold braid scorched and burned so that its imprint was fused on to the skin of his arm . |
| 6 | The LAS admitted yesterday there had been one case of a 25-minute delay in sending an ambulance . |
| 7 | NICHOLAS Baring ( above ) , chairman of Commercial Union , told the annual meeting yesterday there had been minimal disturbance to the insurer 's services following the IRA bomb last Friday . |
| 8 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 9 | As recent as a year ago there had been little confidence about the future for sheep with lambs selling poorly , farmers wondering whether it was worth spending money on good rams or even worth tupping their ewes . |
| 10 | I 'd sort of missed the music of the band I once knew , so maybe there had been one hippy in attendance , after all … |
| 11 | Little more than a year earlier there had been that never-to-be-forgotten encounter at the inn . |
| 12 | Up to then there had been little or no solid research in this field and the facts as to sexual elements in British society were still arcane . |
| 13 | Up to then there had been little social division in towns and houses were crowded in on themselves in a formless way . |
| 14 | Until then there had been widespread sympathy for Polish aspirations for greater autonomy ‘ and the government had moved cautiously in that direction . |
| 15 | Then there had been another science during which she took periodical gulps of her tea and the sleeping baby stirred and gave small pig-like grunts . |
| 16 | Since then there had been several extensions built , a new accident and emergency unit , and a radiotherapy centre . |
| 17 | He was the only candidate when it came to the vote in the Congress , but initially there had been two other nominations for the post . |
| 18 | It had been a wet , raw winter , with the ground waterlogged and streams running high ; but at least there had been little snow and the hill passes were open , which was just as well for a journey to mid-Annandale . |
| 19 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 20 | Yet there had been those kisses pressed upon her own lips — and what about the embraces that had held her so closely against him ? |
| 21 | From September 1992 onwards there had been increasing criticism of the government not only from the BSP but from the MRF and also from President Zhelyu Zhelev [ see p. 39105 ] . |
| 22 | There was a smell of game and metal in the air , and bustle where so recently there had been calm . |