Example sentences of "had been [noun] and " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | It had been touch and go whether she would get herself anywhere near , let alone actually on , the bench . |
| 32 | Master Eustace , consecrated Bishop of Ely in 1198 , had been Vice-Chancellor and Keeper of the King 's Seal since 1194 . |
| 33 | There had been research and review carried out by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and by International Movements Towards Educational Change ( IMTEC ) . |
| 34 | I had put on a show of contrition all day , and behind it had been incomprehension and fright . |
| 35 | Walesa 's favourite for the post , former Gdansk Solidarity underground leader Bogdan Borusewicz , was eliminated on the second round , and in the final round Krzaklewski defeated Lech Kaczynski , who had been secretary-general and de facto second-in-command under Walesa and temporary co-chairman since Walesa 's resignation ( which followed his election as President of Poland in December ) . |
| 36 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 37 | [ See Fig. 3 ] Where once the smooth cone of Vesuvius had risen , only a shattered stump now remained ; where once there had been fields and vineyards and all the normal clutter of the countryside there now stretched a silent grey carpet of ash , mantling everything like a thick , dirty snowfall . |
| 38 | There had been restaurants and clothes-shops — but no florists . |
| 39 | It was only sexual jealousy that he felt , after all , because he had convinced himself that she and Florian had been lovers and probably would be again when this was over . |
| 40 | All through the morning there had been detonations and gunfire . |
| 41 | Luis Carlos Croissier Batista , who had been Industry and Energy Minister in 1986-1988 , became head of the new Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores , the national stock market commission regulating the new stock markets . |
| 42 | And Laura — if she had been earth and water as she shaped her pots , she was now , like Cleopatra , all fire and air . |
| 43 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 44 | Ridley , 61 , had been Trade and Industry Secretary since 1989 and was one of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's closest allies . |
| 45 | He wondered whether she had always been quite so uncaring of her appearance or whether it had been grief and rage at Uncle Bill 's defection that had started this off . |
| 46 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 47 | And then , of course , Jill Yate knew very little about retailing or the fashion industry ; until a year before , her main interests had been rock and roll and the Beatles , and she fell upon the job at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ as representing part of the faded Sixties pop culture she loved . |
| 48 | Of the twenty Law Lords in group A , eleven had been MPs and three Parliamentary candidates ; of the twenty-one in group B , five had been MPs ; of the twenty-two in group C , four had been MPs and two Parliamentary candidates . |
| 49 | Of the twenty Law Lords in group A , eleven had been MPs and three Parliamentary candidates ; of the twenty-one in group B , five had been MPs ; of the twenty-two in group C , four had been MPs and two Parliamentary candidates . |
| 50 | De Benedetti had been vice-president and a major shareholder of the Banco Ambrosiano from November 1981 to January 1982 , before ceding control to Roberto Calvi , who was found hanged in London in April 1982 [ see p. 32083 ] . |
| 51 | What had driven the Company in the past had been technology and not the market . |
| 52 | And she thought she knew about pain anyway , because there had been pain in losing Fergus , there had been nights and days and weeks of aching torment . |
| 53 | He had never found a suitable gift , and there had n't been an Easter that year , the only gift many families had received had been blood and fire . |
| 54 | ‘ Their lives had been hell and they were all very frightened . ’ |
| 55 | Although Anne had always read voraciously it had been novels and poetry , or volumes of letters and diaries which were her particular favourites . |
| 56 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |