Example sentences of "had [adv] [been] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip Greaves , had the portfolios of Public Works and Communications added to his existing responsibilities ; he was also Leader of the House of Assembly Warwick Franklin had hitherto been Agriculture Minister , where his tenure had been a controversial one . |
| 2 | He was replaced in an acting capacity by his arch-rival , the anti-communist Croatian Stipe Mesic , who had hitherto been Deputy President and who had anyway been due to succeed Jovic in May 1991 . |
| 3 | Gen. Grachev , who had hitherto been Yeltsin 's deputy Defence Minister , had played a key role in the military opposition to the coup attempt in August 1991 [ see p. 38369 ] . |
| 4 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 5 | Elections to the Knesset held on Nov. 1 , 1988 , resulted in deadlock between the two main parties , Likud and the Labour Party , which had hitherto been partners along with a number of minor parties in a coalition government formed following the last , similarly inconclusive elections in 1984 . |
| 6 | Much of this came from the abolition of fallow , much from the farming of what had hitherto been moor , heath or marsh , much , unfortunately , from the destruction of woodlands . |
| 7 | It had all been lies , everything men had ever told us ! |
| 8 | It had all been Mum . |
| 9 | Surely they had all been Blackers , or Tickles or Sprotts . |
| 10 | As delirium receded , she knew it had all been dreams . |
| 11 | We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it . |
| 12 | ‘ The APB would never have made it if it had all been practitioners . |
| 13 | Alured 's father , uncle , grandfather , and great-grandfather had all been MPs . |
| 14 | It was true that they had all been children when he was taken away , but they remembered him as kind always . |
| 15 | Ralph had planned it but they had all been party to his evil . |
| 16 | Socialite Lyn Bari , nightclub chanteuse Lizabeth Scott , ecdysiast Rita Hayworth , fiery senorita Dolores Del Rio : they had all been names in his little black book . |
| 17 | Then it had all been defeat and misery . |
| 18 | It had all been rubbish , all of it . |
| 19 | Jerzy Milewski , head of the National Security Office at the Presidential Chancellery , said that the plans had only been discussion documents , but on April 13 Walesa admitted that plans existed . |
| 20 | At a stroke , we might almost say , political ideas which had only been aspirations or dreams in the minds of philosophers or popular radicals , were placed on the agenda of real politics , not only in France or even Europe , but globally . |
| 21 | In Ecgfrith 's case , by the same principle , if he was killed in the fifteenth year of his reign and had only been king fourteen years , he may have become king in 671 and certainly could not have done so before 21 May 670 . |
| 22 | Steve could n't have gone straight out so quickly , it had only been seconds before she had called again . |
| 23 | Where once upon a time there had only been fishing boats , now bobbed the magnificent yachts of international millionaires . |
| 24 | Explaining their resignations in terms of the desire to " recover [ their ] freedom " , Wade said that he and the other PDS ministers had been excluded from government action and had only been party to decisions over " trivial " issues . |
| 25 | As he had thought ‘ Coventry ’ had only been starters , one by one the names of our principal cities were mentioned . |
| 26 | There was nothing so dead as an old love , and what they had shared had only been desire on his part . |
| 27 | Places such as Ceylon , Colombo , Port Said , the Suez Canal , had only been names in textbooks and beyond her wildest dreams . |
| 28 | Increasingly they used the principle of partible inheritance ( which had long been characteristic of some other European societies ) , where the estate was divided between the surviving spouse and children . |
| 29 | An almost unquestioned belief in the street people had long been part of It 's rhetoric , with or without the romanticization of the drop-out , from Kerouac through to Emmett Grogan . |
| 30 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |