Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kendal had long been the second most important wool town in the country : Carlisle was the biggest town in the Border Marches . |
| 2 | She had not been the first woman to offer him a smile during the past few hour . |
| 3 | Crawford had not been the first choice to play Feste , until Colin Graham — who directed him in Benjamin Britten productions was brought in . |
| 4 | The United States argued that since Nicaragua had never ratified its declaration it had always been a third party to the jurisdictional scheme . |
| 5 | In fact it had always been the last thing on his mind . |
| 6 | She could not imagine that she had ever been the first person . |
| 7 | In much of his fiction , early and late , Waugh turns from comedy to the haunting thought of a lost Eden ; and in a nation that had once been the first industrial civilisation that can only mean a pastoral world . |
| 8 | After the shock of Valesio 's murder and his almost sleepless night , lunch with Luciano Bartocci had really been the last straw . |
| 9 | Vanessa had n't been the first woman to indulge his taste in hand-made shirts and silk waistcoats , nor would she be the last . |
| 10 | That had n't been The Last Straw ; far from it . |
| 11 | There had never been a first form at Cambridge School . |