Example sentences of "had [been] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , she said , adding that she had been to over fifty funerals in the UK alone , the funeral of a lifetime . |
| 2 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 3 | No , it was Marguerite Bryant now and had been for over fifteen years . |
| 4 | Had been for about eighteen months . ’ |
| 5 | Although our prediction had been for around 100 validations , based on the transfer of old courses , we will actually be involved in closer to 320 validations . |
| 6 | It had been on loud all evening , and now it was the early hours of the morning . |
| 7 | This , in itself , need not have posed much of a challenge to the conventional wisdom : if unemployment had been at unusually low levels at the time , the acceleration of inflation could have been explained in terms of the simple Phillips curve and contractionary demand management policies could have been implemented . |
| 8 | He said figures revealed there from 1978–93 there had been at least 57 suicides within the force but that the police authorities were reluctant to admit this . |
| 9 | A year before there had been at least six members of the Conservative Party better known than himself . |
| 10 | Anyway , it had been a very long time ago , goodness gracious , it had been at least six years . |
| 11 | Half of the reported difficulties had been at least five years earlier , and only one in three had involved any question of difficulty over getting credit . |
| 12 | Coun Russell said there had been at least two deaths in bedsit fires in Chester in recent years . |
| 13 | I do n't know ho certainly I know there had been at least two peo different lots of people living in ours before we moved in , and I would think there were probably more than that . |
| 14 | Evans or Owens , the furniture man , who had come twice to the house , had been at least sixty then . |
| 15 | He said that every weekend until recently there had been at least three incursions , most of which he had intercepted . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that there had been at least 350 murders in Haiti in the past year , Avril responded to the attack by claiming that emergency measures were necessary " to protect democratic accomplishments against terrorism " . |
| 17 | What would happen , we asked , if new information in ten years ' time showed that the people working inside Hinkley C had been in even greater danger ? |
| 18 | In her trip she had been in too small a room — that was all . |
| 19 | Or perhaps she had been in too much of a hurry to change . |