Example sentences of "[adj] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio Sandino , in the capital Managua , claimed on Aug. 27 that Dantos-91 had been established to counter the military operations of the re-contras and to defend the Sandinista land laws . |
| 2 | More shaming had been his reluctance to put it to the test . |
| 3 | While William III had been occupied in Ireland the French had been active in the Channel . |
| 4 | Thanks to the cooperation of the Austrians in Flanders , the French had been able to extend the embarkation area and the main assault would now be delivered second , not first . |
| 5 | So far the French had been fired on from the field on their left , now they would see an officer on the right of their advance . |
| 6 | THE French had been forewarned . |
| 7 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 8 | By the Seventies this had been cut down , thanks to the pressure cooker , hotter ovens and the first electric gadgets , to an hour . |
| 9 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 10 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 11 | This had been the routine during the landing at La Breche and the advance to the Orne bridges . |
| 12 | This had been accomplished in the main by 1921 , thanks to the combined application of brute force in the Civil War and the persuasive methods of the press and other media . |
| 13 | But all this had been wasted by some heavy handed crimping . |
| 14 | After this had been analysed , they then , and only then , went on to consider how this basic process was linked with ideas and values , such as justice and law , and with institutions , such as property and the State . |
| 15 | Once this had been established , the aim of Marx 's work was to break through this veil of ideology . |
| 16 | Diana 's first visit in her new role was to open a new research centre at King 's College Hospital , which dealt with the problems of high-risk babies ; this had been funded by Birthright . |
| 17 | This had been one of the 150 organizations that had written asking for patronage when Diana became engaged , and had been turned down . |
| 18 | Since the war , or at least since the post-war pattern settled into what looked like immobility round about 1950 , this had been a stony field to work in . |
| 19 | This had been carried out inside the health department and had come up with findings that were easily predictable . |
| 20 | This had been more of a thump . |
| 21 | An older age group of superior tradesmen here and there — the public bar fraternity shunned the place , for this had been for many years the snob pub of Belgravia . |
| 22 | This had been the view vehemently advocated by the Independent Labour Party in the 1920s and by Oswald Mosley , when he was a supporter of the Labour Party during the 1920s . |
| 23 | This had been the cause of the 1925 dispute , and the situation had altered little between 31 July 1925 , ‘ Red Friday ’ and 1 May 1926 when the coal lock-out began . |
| 24 | When she had won the Coronation Cup a wart was beginning to grow on her belly , and this had been lanced not long before the Gold Cup . |
| 25 | This had been Sir Ivor at his brilliant best , striking with one deadly burst of speed . |
| 26 | This had been ideal for Ewan 's purposes . |
| 27 | The seeds of the ideology behind this had been sown long before the time of Constantine . |
| 28 | Perhaps we could all be a lot more tolerant of ourselves for sometimes longing to be beautiful if we considered for how many years of our lives this had been held out to us as an ideal . |
| 29 | Even if this had been so — and Reagan worrying about Iran 's industrial base has the true ring of fantasy — the bartering was not to be turned so easily away from war , on either side . |
| 30 | I think this had been the former jockey 's house , for the Kirkwoods of Woodbrook survived into the middle of the twentieth century by breeding racehorses . |