Example sentences of "had been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product .
2 He had filled his pockets with stones , but the drama of the landscape had been beyond his understanding .
3 It became possible to standardize the matériel and develop strategy in a way that had been beyond Muscovy 's capabilities .
4 It was as if she had been beyond the sky .
5 Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital .
6 The terms of exchange between manufacturers and agricultural produce moved swiftly to the disadvantage of the towns ; a pair of boots which in 1913 had been worth 283lb. of rye flour was worth as little as 133lb. by May 1922 .
7 The rigidity and over-centralisation had been shown in the nurses ' pay regrading exercise , which had been worth ‘ nought out of 10 — useless ’ .
8 All the way home I was so happy ; everything had been worth while , everything was going to be all right .
9 SHe knew it was unlikely SHe could count on Alix 's discretion , but the need for medical backup had been worth the disclosures .
10 And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work .
11 Cuddling Alex , Mary Demetriou said her £10,000 , two-year legal battle had been worth it .
12 She 'd learned about that back when she was Jessamyn Amanda and nine-year-olds had been worth a gallon of potable water on the streets of the NoGo .
13 By the time Mr Carlisle arrived in the right Roman town days after the original date for the hearing he was left wondering if it had been worth the bother .
14 In spite of his ritual attempt to distance himself from the young man who had written that poem , he knew very well that even his contemporary reputation in large part rested on it : that , and the last three of the Four Quartets , he told Ezra Pound , had been worth writing .
15 It had been worth every minute of the effort they had put into it .
16 It had taken them two weeks to break the complex code , but it had been worth it .
17 His war had been worth fighting , much as she regretted the admission .
18 But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan .
19 It had been worth it .
20 She had n't really thought he would agree to stay in the car , but it had been worth a try .
21 It had been worth the risk .
22 The United States suspended military and economic aid , but such support had been worth only US$16,400,000 in 1990 .
23 Only an agreed statement of his rights vis-à-vis the Christians of the Ottoman Empire would have convinced him that the game had been worth the candle .
24 She 'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it , but it had been worth every drop of blood , sweat and tears .
25 In the 80s , the tendency had been towards deregulation ; that would reverse in the 90s to re-regulation .
26 It was a boiling hot morning , he had three other appointments before lunch , and his head ached dully from the excess of Jack Daniels he had drunk the night before with the child 's father , who had been beside himself with rage when he had arrived at the Presbytery .
27 Well then her mother died last Feb. with some awful cancer and her daughter had been beside her when she died and probably learnt then about the secret which must have burdened her poor mother 's life for so many years .
28 I had been up most of the night on surveillance and , dressed in ‘ raggies ’ in a seedy dockside pub outside my own police area , had posed as a ‘ driver ’ for a drug-dealer .
29 They bought a flat in the capital , Nick attended art school for a while there , and Laura made a very close friend of a woman whose unusual shop had been opposite the Ashley 's first boutique on the Left Bank .
30 The estimate had been between £40,000 and £60,000 , but competition between the Khalili Galleries of London and an unnamed museum drove the price through the roof .
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