Example sentences of "they had [been] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the agreement between the IDA and the Ringaskiddy residents over interim storage seemed to settle the dumping issue , the residents had accepted the agreement only after they had been physically attacked by the forces of the state , and the resources and energy of the community had been exhausted . |
| 2 | It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van . |
| 3 | Post Mortem examinations revealed they had been probably been battered with a hammer . |
| 4 | So far as she 'd been concerned they had been just friends . |
| 5 | The first seems less likely since the pilots were experienced and known to be very competent and they had been well briefed ( by professional weather service ) on the ACA arrival and approach procedures . |
| 6 | Both students , they had been well equipped and managed to make their own way off the mountain . |
| 7 | Stories , they had been mostly . |
| 8 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 9 | Just now they had been utterly careless about the noise they made in the hay . |
| 10 | Everywhere the capricious darting hand of Grace had lighted on the fallen , the ordinary , and they had been briefly lit up and magnified in that illumination . |
| 11 | Reading from a statement , one of the firm 's owners , managing director David Grover said that they had been badly hit by the recession , and overseas competition . |
| 12 | Although as a group they had been officially emancipated in 1871 , burakumin became the sporadic scapegoats of popular resentment , and social discrimination persisted on a wide scale in spheres such as education , employment and marriage . |
| 13 | It is a picture of self-respecting and self-reliant people whose expectations were pitifully modest , who knew they could be worse off , who perhaps remembered times when they had been even poorer , but who were always haunted by the spectre of poverty ( as they understood the term ) . |
| 14 | The question before the Court was whether they had been automatically transferred in any case under the Business Transfers Directive and had the rights that the Directive confers — including rights for any recognised union to be informed and consulted ; the right of continued recognition of the union ; the automatic transfer of the employees ' terms and conditions of employment ; and protection against unfair dismissal in relation to the transfer . |
| 15 | Only in two patients did problems with constipation recur after they had been successfully treated . |
| 16 | In the latest recorded incident , Haitian security police had detained 150 refugees on Aug. 14 , only minutes after they had been forcibly returned to Port-au-Prince by the US coast guard . |
| 17 | Opinion polls suggested a Conservative win , but they had been wrong too often in the past to inspire confidence . |
| 18 | Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market , they had been largely absent for several seasons . |
| 19 | That is why , according to Eliot , soda siphons from that firm — I have never checked this — bear on their labels some phrase to the effect that they had been thoroughly and exhaustively tested . |
| 20 | The judge was satisfied , as he made clear , that they had been properly served with the proceedings throughout and no proper explanation of their absence was vouchsafed by their solicitor , who appeared at the hearing on their behalf . |
| 21 | The allegations were dismissed on the same day by an Egyptian Interior Ministry official , who cited a small number of cases of abuses by policemen but claimed that they had been properly investigated . |
| 22 | Their case is that if they had been properly and correctly advised as they were entitled to be under the contract , they would not have proceeded to exchange or to completion . |
| 23 | As before , this new document , The School Curriculum , emphasised preparation for adult life and the economic needs of the country , and repeated the list of aims claiming that they had been widely accepted during consultations . |
| 24 | He said dogs could not have killed the rabbits in the way they had been savagely slaughtered . |
| 25 | About 100 emerged from the embassy and another 500 from holiday homes on the outskirts of Warsaw , where they had been temporarily housed . |
| 26 | They wanted to drink , failing a quick thrash with a woman , and then tumble back into the field and race shouting into the forest to make the kill of which they had been unkindly baulked . |
| 27 | I did not run into a lot of people who told me that they had been unexpectedly impressed by Mr Kinnock or unimpressed by Mr Major . |
| 28 | They had been particularly interested in what was termed ‘ totemism ’ , that is , the adoption of an animal , bird , reptile , insect or fish as a special emblem for a clan . |
| 29 | It seems reasonable to suppose that they had been particularly depressed by the economic conditions of the inter-war period . |
| 30 | Sleeping cars with en-suite bathroom , shower and toilet were barely recognisable as the BR Mk 1 vehicles from which they had been skilfully converted . |