Example sentences of "it had been [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time since 1948 that the entire Legislative Yuan had been elected , and the first time ever that it had been elected entirely within Taiwan . |
| 2 | The children stared ravenously at her dress as if it had been spun out of sugar . |
| 3 | Mr Catterall said they never found the dog but there were signs it had been dug out by someone else . |
| 4 | The plaque was unadorned , the letters deeply carved in an elegant script reminiscent of Eric Gill , and Dalgliesh remembered his aunt telling him that it had been placed there by previous owners in the late twenties , when the cottage was originally extended . |
| 5 | Apparently it had been placed there in the pre-dawn . |
| 6 | It had been placed there when Mr Blakey had finished in the garden . |
| 7 | There had been something of a reproof in that letter , even though no word of it had been written openly . |
| 8 | Last month a new law was passed , allowing former owners to claim back their land , even if it had been built over . |
| 9 | The basket was about a metre deep and the back of it had been built right up high so as to support the bank of flowers . |
| 10 | Neither he nor Loren liked the house , much ; it had been built not too long after the war , and with its small windows and pebbledash it had none of the atmosphere of the ‘ place in the country ’ that they 'd been hoping for-if anything , it looked more like the married quarters for lower RAF ranks to be found around old and run-down airfields . |
| 11 | It had been built ostensibly as a future home for a son and his future wife , but tastes and pocket books had changed . |
| 12 | Most of the building was old and was covered in dark green ivy , but some of it had been built more recently and was of grim , black stone . |
| 13 | It had been built earlier in the century , and by 1794 was the home of Henry Poole 's uncle , Thomas Poole the elder , an ‘ irritable , arbitrary old man ’ whose bad temper owed only a little to his sufferings from the gout . |
| 14 | The top of it had been raised so that Bella , propped up against two pillows , her face grey against their whiteness , was almost in a sitting position . |
| 15 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 16 | The field behaves as if it had been presented simultaneously with the target display , and so reduces the contrast between target contours and their background ( that is , the target contours will look grey rather than black ) . |
| 17 | But this was a boat was saw s , over the up the side of the mainland , in fact , which had been er whether it had been tied up too tight in fact I wo , now , now for leeway and the thing had just sunk . |
| 18 | The winds ( see pages 8/9 for greater detail ) were of such force to blow a Douglas DC-6 and incredible 1.5 miles away from where it had been tied down . |
| 19 | Once it had been tied securely . |
| 20 | We found it had been secured only by one-inch-long wood screws . |
| 21 | It comprised some of the very best of the Black-Earth belt , but after the Revolution it had been trampled over first by the Red Army advancing on Kiev from Kharkov , then by the German 20th Army Corps , and later by ruthless and bloodthirsty ‘ Green ’ armies . |
| 22 | Nuadu could see that even the pale , jellied part of one eye was partly missing and he had the sudden sickening impression that it had been eaten away from within . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , he said that he wanted to do something useful with his life , seeing that it had been given back to him when he had n't expected it . |
| 24 | On the same day it was reported that efforts to impose the state of emergency regulations were being hampered by mass civil disobedience , with demonstrations and road blocks slowing the movement of the newly arrived military units from airfields at Yevlakh and Gendzhe ( Azerbaijan 's second largest city , formerly Kirovabad ; it had been given back its pre-Soviet name on Dec. 30 ) . |
| 25 | ( Remember Russell 's chicken ( Russell , 1959 , p. 35 ) , whose true beliefs about the regularity with which it had been fed so far led it into a false belief about the security of its future . ) |
| 26 | Normally we go to Cavendish Square but this time it had been cordoned off . |
| 27 | She was wearing a tight sort of dress in shiny , slippery silk , which looked as if it had been painted on to her body . |
| 28 | It had been painted well . |
| 29 | The reply of the Government representative , Viscount Gage , was very unsatisfactory , in that it had been prepared beforehand , and did not at all deal with the points raised by Lord Charnwood . |
| 30 | We found all the little bits and pieces , the er , er , idiosyncrasies of how it had been prepared previously by yourself , |