Example sentences of "had been [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 2 | She had been mean with money all her life , using her daughter and granddaughter as servants , and even herself at times during the last seven or so years as unhired help , except for the time that Rosie was here . |
| 3 | If Pearce Marchbank had been dubious of It he was n't about Oz . |
| 4 | On Oct. 3 , the second anniversary of German unification , several thousand people took part in a protest against xenophobia at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp , which had been fire-bombed in September [ see pp. 39111-12 ] . |
| 5 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 6 | Was n't he the one who had been friendly with Pamella Bordes , or was it Donald Trelford of the Observer ? |
| 7 | Walter had been friendly with David in England and when he came to Scotland , David granted him lands in Ayrshire , Renfrewshire , Argyll , Bute and the Lothians . |
| 8 | Certain British officers had been friendly with Saw , while Military Intelligence had been indicating since May that Saw was planning to seize power . |
| 9 | This was a new factor in Greek politics ; previously Corinth had been friendly towards Athens , partly for the standard reason that Greeks tended to a friends with their neighbours ' enemies ( p. 16 ) . |
| 10 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 11 | Some of the speculation had been self-cancelling with newspapers predicting that the Government would take quite opposite courses . |
| 12 | The uprising continued along the same lines as the bread riots which had been rife in Russia at that time and so the Tsarina was worried but thinks everything will be alright and informed the Tsar , who was away inspecting troops , to this effect . |
| 13 | For the first time , she thought that her life — wretched as it was — had been preferable to marriage with this man . |
| 14 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 15 | The British and Dutch had been worrying about Mons , but now Sharpe took a scrap of charcoal and scrawled a thick ring round the crossroads . |
| 16 | ( Prior to World War I , where gas had been available for cooking , it was often used only for the Sunday dinner . ) |
| 17 | No recording of Jenkins 's music had been available for years before the Thorofon CD , and now this Astrée issue comes onto the market , as if to underline how huge a gap in the recorded repertoire that was . |
| 18 | The Commission voted on Nov. 26 , 1990 , to suspend the four-year-old subsidy system which had been available to EC shipbuilders to encourage them to compete against cheaper products from South Korea or Japan . |
| 19 | As the world warmed , the global sea level rose at rates which certainly were without parallel in the last 100,000 years , but until this month no continuous record of this sea-level change had been available to scientists . |
| 20 | This was an adaptation , evolved by the courts , of the writ of account which from the thirteenth century had been available against bailiffs , factors and receivers . |
| 21 | Neighbours claimed the children 's mother , Sharon Dawson , had been unwell for months . |
| 22 | It had been dry for weeks , but there were thunderheads over against the mountains and the atmosphere was heavy with the hint of rain . |
| 23 | Expectation had been rampant throughout June but , come the pre-season friendlies of August , football fever had reached dizzy heights . |
| 24 | If he had been indifferent to Catherine , if he had not loved her at least as much , more , than she did herself , she could not have done it . |
| 25 | Mr Pozsgay , Mr Nemeth and Gyula Horn , the Foreign Minister , had been dissatisfied with Mr Nyers ' compromising stance , and his support for party cells in workplaces . |
| 26 | Sir Henry Manceville had been obsessed with ghosts and . |
| 27 | Accordingly it was held that the breath specimen had been inadmissible in evidence . |
| 28 | On the morning after his return to Jesus College , Coleridge paused to look about the room from which he had been absent since June , and to record his state of mind in a letter to Southey : |
| 29 | In Leeds Private Hospital Ltd v Parkin [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 3 , the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld an industrial tribunal decision that a man with a known disability who had been absent from work for four days , as had the pregnant employee in this case , would not have been dismissed . |
| 30 | The two surveys indicated that 33% ( June ) and 30% ( November ) of pupils had been absent from school at least once in the survey . |