Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] had [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some pages had apparently been torn out and separately burnt ; the brittle fragments of black ash had floated down to lie on top of the debris under the grate , old twisted matchends , coal dust , carpet fluff , the accumulated grit of years . |
| 2 | Very few writers had actually been to the world outside Europe . |
| 3 | ( These scores may be somewhat higher than normal as , before joining the study , some patients had already been encouraged to take a high fibre intake . ) |
| 4 | ‘ Although we had regular contact with our Field Officer , some modules had never been assessed before . |
| 5 | Some injuries had apparently been caused by the explosion dislodging flooring and equipment on the overhead jigs which had crashed on to the men working on the shop-floor . |
| 6 | The bomb had been a direct hit and only the last few dwellings had still been standing afterwards . |
| 7 | In the past , such houses had always been offered to the National Trust , which had initially taken them without endowment , accepting instead an undertaking that the Ministry of Works would make good any deficit on repairs and maintenance through a Historic Buildings Council grant . |
| 8 | The ability of some species to undergo explosive increases in population had been largely ignored by exponents of the balance theory , but the significance of such phenomena had now been recognized owing to the writings of Thomas Malthus . |
| 9 | Such clinics had always been prohibited from using federal money to perform abortions , but until 1988 they had been allowed to discuss abortion and to provide information about its availability . |
| 10 | It is doubtful whether these last two charges could properly be regarded as offences , for such licences had frequently been sold in the past , and the surviving evidence does not provide conclusive proof one way or the other about the usurious nature of Latimer 's and Lyons 's financial dealings . |
| 11 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 12 | or : No , such changes had long been coming and were incomplete by 1914 . |
| 13 | Following Taylor v Taylor [ 1938 ] KB 320 , the year in question was that from the first payment under the lease , and given that four such payments had already been made , the right to deduct tax was lost . |
| 14 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 15 | The union achievement in establishing and applying standards for design and safe use of VDUs is more striking when one considers that these policies had already been formulated before the Government Health and Safety Executive had to issue information and advice on the subject . |
| 16 | These operations had hitherto been handled by the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police . |
| 17 | ‘ These pictures had never been published so there was no way she could have known who the people were . ’ |
| 18 | These sectors had long been in decline — reflecting the decline of the UK as a world economic power — so the people of these regions did not have the buying power to attract the new consumer goods industries . |
| 19 | Several of these settlements had recently been united into a single city called Jahanpanah ( The Refuge of the World ) by a great loop of wall forty miles long . |
| 20 | Yet these farmers had usually been placed in this situation because there was no one else willing to take on the task . |
| 21 | Many of these institutions had in their histories as further education colleges operated with strong hierarchical traditions , and these structures had often been accompanied by very authoritarian behaviour by their principals . |
| 22 | These figures had now been revised so that a truer comparison of the housing stock 's condition could be made . |
| 23 | These veterans had originally been recruited into the Roman army as heavy cavalry after the Sarmatian wars fought by Marcus Aurelius in the middle Danube . |
| 24 | Health and hygiene were also cited , with special reference to women s " future usefulness as wives and mothers " , These arguments had already been well rehearsed in France , where in 1862 there was a major strike by the Paris compositors against the employment of women . |
| 25 | All of these bodies had either been confined to MPs or had been expressions of ‘ Political Dissent ’ and had overlapped in membership , support and aims ; all had been shunned by most Methodists . |
| 26 | Knowing the complications and expense involved in getting together the various unguents required , one can assume that these items had already been accumulated by those to whom the task of embalming the royal remains had been devolved . |
| 27 | These girls had actually been requested to have a conversation in " Jamaican " , and had said that they would do so . |
| 28 | There had been severe westerly gales a few days before , and these skuas had probably been displaced off their normal migration routes by the storm . |
| 29 | The conference in 1968 reported by Rosenthal and Kety concluded that none of these factors had yet been convincingly established as having a causal role . |
| 30 | Southeast of this elongated zone these sediments had already been overthrust by Precambrian and Palaeozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Blue Ridge and Piedmont provinces . |