Example sentences of "had [been] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doguzhiyev ( a member of the small Adygey minority inhabiting the North Caucasus ) and Laverov had been Deputy Premiers . |
| 2 | It is perhaps significant that none of the last four Lord Chief Justices — Lords Goddard , Parker , Widgery and Lane — had been law officers . |
| 3 | The only dances she had ever been to had been school dances , and she wanted to go to this one . |
| 4 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 5 | Since late July in cities across the country there had been work stoppages and demonstrations in protest at the lack of cigarettes , in many cases degenerating into rioting . |
| 6 | A hospital spokesman admitted there had been teething troubles . |
| 7 | There had been stone dragons , and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath . |
| 8 | Where they men who had been quarry men ? |
| 9 | If it had been Rime Giants following us we would have had a more difficult time of it ; they enjoy such conditions . |
| 10 | All were CPSU members and Yazov , Yanayev and Kryuchkov had been politburo members , though after the reorganization of the party in July 1990 [ see p. 37614-17 ] , following the March abolition of its constitutional monopoly on power [ see p. 37299 ] , government ministers could no longer be on the party 's ruling bodies . |
| 11 | 2109 and 2113 had been war casualties and written off , five standard Felthams scrapped at Purley depôt as already described and in November 1950 , while the move was in progress , Nos. 2144 and 2162 caught fire and were burned out . |
| 12 | There had been car break-ins in the area but there was nothing to connect Wolfenden with them . |
| 13 | He was not like the saints you read about who had been parish priests . |
| 14 | Last night there had been Christmas bells ringing all over London . |
| 15 | There had been book burnings and riots from Bangladesh to Bradford . |
| 16 | During 1989 the main source of rebellion in the state had been Bodo tribesmen [ see pp. 36694 ; 37348 ] . |
| 17 | In recent years , all her wars had been frontier battles , fought round her coasts to repel raiders and oust alien settlements . |
| 18 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 19 | There had been oriole rumours circulating earlier . |
| 20 | There had been trade unions before of course , and er activity but not to the same extent between fifteen er nineteen fifty five to sixty , there was a great surge forward . |
| 21 | Immediately after the fall of the eastern bloc regimes , even the top nomenklatura professed that they had been closet democrats all along , pushing relentlessly for change from within the structures of power . |
| 22 | The sons of George III had been prodigal breeders , had n't they ? |
| 23 | My father had his allotment at Bugmore and felt himself fortunate , for prior to becoming gardens the area had been filter beds for the City 's Sewage Works . |
| 24 | He and his wife Rita , had been model parents to the twins and had never understood why their sons were basically bad . |