Example sentences of "[adj] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | More shaming had been his reluctance to put it to the test . |
| 2 | While William III had been occupied in Ireland the French had been active in the Channel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | THE French had been forewarned . |
| 6 | Chesty had been publicly ordered to ‘ lurk ’ , to ‘ fold ’ , to ‘ carry the juice ’ and , on one occasion , to ‘ walk away down there nicely ’ . |
| 7 | During Elizabeth 's reign the English had been concerned , as Hakluyt explained , with trade and with opening up new lines of commerce . |
| 8 | Military leaders in the sixteenth century who could not find wars to fight elsewhere might turn on their own sovereigns and fight at home ; there had been some decades of civil war in England after the English had been driven out of France in the middle of the fifteenth century . |
| 9 | Until then the English had been sailing to places so far from effective Spanish opposition and so thinly populated that the government had not had to provide any help . |
| 10 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 11 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 12 | Filming this silver-grey had been very exciting , but for the programme we needed shots of the more typical chocolate-coloured animal , too . |
| 13 | The British had been taken to the cleaners because foolish politicians in post-war Britain had elected to produce sociologists instead of engineers , and the predictable end result was that Britain had been short on wealth creators and long on spenders . |
| 14 | Traditionally the British had been Champagne 's most lucrative customers — after the drink had been popularised in society by the Marlboroughs and the Prince of Wales in the last half of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | The arrival of the British had been impressive : on 24 December 1807 a squadron had anchored in Funchal under the command of Admiral Samuel Hood and consisted of four ships of the line , four frigates and sixteen ships for transporting troops , carrying two regiments of infantry and two companies of artillery . |
| 16 | Once the British had been driven from the European mainland , they had lost virtually all of the general intelligence that armies gather on their enemy 's positions , his deployment , and his defences . |
| 17 | Item 3 was the press release saying , in effect , how unhelpful the British had been . |
| 18 | Some of the first signs that Britain and the United States might draw together against a new common threat appeared in the Middle East , a region ironically where the British had been particularly anxious to uphold their predominant influence , even against the Americans . |
| 19 | All along its length rotundas about ten feet high had been set up . |
| 20 | By 1972 , presumably to guide people in the same predicament , posts five feet high had been driven into the ground beside the track . |
| 21 | But , by the time he returned to England in April 1186 , Richard 's position as heir-apparent had been further strengthened . |
| 22 | And the generals who had grown too popular had been commanded to perform one last service by falling upon their swords . |
| 23 | Setting him up so he 'd look foolish had been ridiculous . |
| 24 | The nine set free had been detained at civilian and military sites ; some appeared to have Middle Eastern backgrounds . |
| 25 | I assumed , in my usual mechanistic way that that meant that everything that looked like being cancerous had been cut out . |
| 26 | Nobody , least of all the press corps plane-spotting outside Incirlik air base , believed the first official tale : that the waves of American aircraft returning with their bomb pods empty had been off on a training exercise . |
| 27 | By 1980 , after the first two out of a total of four literacy campaigns , the illiteracy rate for the population over fifteen years old had been brought down to 72.2 per cent from 93 per cent at independence . |
| 28 | The patient , a fine girl of about twelve years old had been admitted unconscious to the ward . |
| 29 | A new life with him , before the old had been properly buried . |
| 30 | The 21 year old had been treated for depression and had been prescribed tablets by his doctor on 15 occasions . |