Example sentences of "had been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking advantage of this situation , Napoleon decided that the time had come to redraw the map of Italy , which , since 1815 , had been either directly or indirectly ruled by Austria . |
| 2 | Nearly everyone , I would have guessed , had been either in the dining room or the dome car all morning . |
| 3 | Raising the £6.5 million , ‘ the largest sum ever attracted by a radical project in Britain' according to the publicity blurb , had been either a heroic achievement by selfless , dedicated humanitarians or the blag of the century . |
| 4 | Before this , however , potential rivals had been either ignored or treated ruthlessly by the BUF . |
| 5 | Within two hours eight battleships and over 180 aircraft had been either destroyed or severely damaged , and there were over 3000 casualties . |
| 6 | My intervention , such as it was , became well known and earned me the enmity of two or three people whose awards had been either altered or struck out . |
| 7 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |
| 8 | Everything had been either buried or blown out of them . |
| 9 | There were no bridges left standing between Verona and Rome and , according to Eric , who from now on was to travel this way once a week , every village south of Florence on the main road to Viterbo and Rome had been either destroyed or severely damaged . |
| 10 | Kenamun 's deadline came and went , but Taheb , with her ease of access to information , heard nothing to suggest that the Medjay captain had been either dismissed or taken off the case . |
| 11 | His aim had been either hopelessly inaccurate , or else capricious of intent . |
| 12 | They alleged that electoral rolls had been tampered with and that people had been either pressurized to vote , refused a vote , or discovered that others had voted in their place . |
| 13 | The immediate catalyst for his removal was an inept press conference on Dec. 5 in which he declared the recession to be abating , only hours before the publication of official figures which showed that GDP had declined 0.3 per cent in the three months to September , the sixth successive quarter for which it had been either static or negative . |
| 14 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 15 | For instance , he had been particularly close to his mother . |
| 16 | She has also proved more willing to allocate political honours to party workers than was Mr Heath who had been particularly niggardly in this regard . |
| 17 | As he ended , there was an enormous cheer on our side and I saw one of our backbenchers who had been particularly critical over the weekend waving his order paper in enthusiastic support . |
| 18 | ‘ This was going to be a celebration tonight , ’ Roirbak said , disconsolately gathering the pieces of a robot Lennon had been particularly vicious with . |
| 19 | Kylie 's astute accountant father had been particularly impressed by Blamey 's management of stars like Mark ‘ Jacko ’ Jackson . |
| 20 | They called themselves the Clamshell Alliance after the local clam fishers , who had been particularly upset by the plan . |
| 21 | Franjieh 's rule had been particularly corrupt ; his son Tony was exalted to the Cabinet through a process of nepotism scarcely rivalled elsewhere in the Middle East . |
| 22 | His existence had been particularly dull , holding down brief part-time work selling clothes in Manchester 's underground fashion world . |
| 23 | In 1972 the Criminal Law Revision Committee had been particularly exercised by the fear that silent suspects could ‘ ambush ’ the prosecution with evidence at their trial which they did not mention during questioning and which the police now had no time independently to verify . |
| 24 | He found he was still standing there some minutes later , not because the traffic had been particularly heavy — there had been several opportunities to cross — but because he was lost in thought about what he had seen . |
| 25 | But , looking into her face , it did n't seem as if her years of freedom had been particularly kind to her . |
| 26 | It was Janet who found , during the course of his work , that patients suffering from what he termed ‘ neurotic disorders ’ would often have significant gaps in their long-term memories — they had actually managed to block out incidents from long ago which had been particularly painful or excessively distressing . |
| 27 | I had been particularly struck by William Rees-Mogg 's column in the Independent on the day after the first leadership ballot . |
| 28 | That night had been particularly joyous , because Ashi felt that at last her family was allowing her to blossom fully into womanhood . |
| 29 | A couple of years after coming out , I met a heterosexual woman with whom I had been particularly close before I had blasted our cosy set up out of the water . |
| 30 | Castle ward councillor Henry Spyvee had been particularly concerned about gangs of drunken youths roaming the streets on Saturday afternoons , leaving broken bottles in their wake . |