Example sentences of "had [be] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn . |
| 2 | I saw that notebook again many winters later , and suddenly realised why that first sighting of ‘ Fred ’ had been such a disappointment . |
| 3 | It was probably the reason that the young Julie had been such a complete tomboy . |
| 4 | Always , in the past , it had been such a jolly day . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher had been such a dominant political figure for so long , her approach to politics so radical , that all who served with her were stuck with a general defence of her record . |
| 6 | A regular visitor to Upper Dean Terrace was my grandmother 's old cook , Bessie , whose chicken cream and queen of puddings had been such a highlight of Nairn holidays , and who was now living in retirement in nearby Learmonth Terrace . |
| 7 | After a while I thought that as Dateline had been such a success the first time why not have some fun and do it again ? |
| 8 | Paul never explicitly describes the heresy he seeks to expose at Colossae , though from his statement it is possible to piece together the evidence of what had been such a destructive influence . |
| 9 | Boy George was desperate to meet Yoko , he would have done almost anything to be on with her , and Yoko liked the idea of meeting John Cleese because John Lennon had been such a Monty Python fan . |
| 10 | It was just that the World Cup had been such a marvellous occasion , a tremendous experience . |
| 11 | There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since . |
| 12 | The 1951 Stratford season had been such a success , it would have been foolish to have followed it with any lesser thing . |
| 13 | On 1 August 1834 , after attending the wedding of his daughter Priscilla who had been such a tireless assistant to her father , Thomas Fowell Buxton and his gentlemen associates attended a ‘ grand public dinner ’ to celebrate the end of slavery with toasts and speeches . |
| 14 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 15 | In this more fiercely competitive situation people quarrel more readily and more often , and the elder who had been such a paragon of gentle paternalism finds things increasingly difficult . |
| 16 | But what happened to the crushed tomatoes which had been such a success , Were they abandoned in favour of whole canned tomatoes ? |
| 17 | Beside the door of each room a supply of ready-loaded firearms had been laid ; every available weapon , from the Enfield rifles of those killed earlier in the siege to native flintlocks and the countless sporting guns which had been such a feature of " the possessions " , had been pressed into service . |
| 18 | This was the 1st Ukrainian Division , many of whose members came from those parts of Poland incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939 and which had been such a special concern of the AFHQ letter of 6 March defining " Soviet nationals " . |
| 19 | She had been such a fine woman . |
| 20 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |
| 21 | Kitty 's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator , full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings , for scalds and weather and animal magic . |
| 22 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |
| 23 | It had been such a confusing time for her — the quarrel with Stephen and her mother 's death following so closely . |
| 24 | It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side . |
| 25 | By contrast , the early 1980s were dominated by the re-emergence of the drift to the South East which had been such a focus of attention in the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 26 | Focus on the two-party system , the growing strength of the organized working-class and the gradual decline of the big single-issue movements which had been such a central feature of the mid-Victorian political scene were visible signs of this transformation . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was because there had been such a short gap between this meeting and the burial of her husband . |
| 28 | But the training that had been such a part of his life , the long hours of studying the Twelve Books of Honour for entry into the Fiana at the age of eleven ; the days and the weeks spent schooling his mind so that all situations could be calmly appraised , came to his aid and , at length , exhausted and drained , Fergus began to look about him and assess this strange , out-of-the-world fortress . |
| 29 | Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down . |
| 30 | It had been such a lovely evening . |