Example sentences of "all had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd have been born in Ireland if things , history and all had been different . ’ |
| 2 | All had been in vain . |
| 3 | Larkins drove the winning run and one of the most remarkable Test victories of all had been achieved . |
| 4 | Of the 766 hereditary peers listed in Dod 's Parliamentary Companion in 1987 , almost all had been educated at public school , no less than 371 of them — almost half — at Eton . |
| 5 | One of the ‘ street toughs ’ , actually a DEA man , later wondered what the point of it all had been . |
| 6 | All of these bodies had either been confined to MPs or had been expressions of ‘ Political Dissent ’ and had overlapped in membership , support and aims ; all had been shunned by most Methodists . |
| 7 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 8 | None had been stillborn , all had been strangled and the police had decided that one person was responsible for all the murders and that person was a woman . |
| 9 | All were down on their luck , all had been drinking and all had decided on an easy way out . |
| 10 | Rut , when all had been done to make provision more level and selection more scientific , a stubborn error of 10 per cent would remain . |
| 11 | But when all had been settled , it seemed that Phil could expect a sum of only about six thousand pounds . |
| 12 | Before setting off , when all had been packed away , I unwittingly slipped my clip-on sun-glasses into my back pocket . |
| 13 | But all had been prepared for them . |
| 14 | But this protection would not be available to theatre , cinema and broadcasting , since all had been specifically excluded from the provisions of the Act . |
| 15 | Since all had been well before Kirsty went into hospital to have her appendix removed — and since many people have a very real terror of hospitals in general — I decided to regress her to that particular time . |
| 16 | All had been part of the Reagan-Bush administration which illegally sold arms to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held in Lebanon . |
| 17 | All had been shot . |
| 18 | It had been a gigantic TEAM EFFORT , no matter the size of each individual gift , all had been essential to achieve our mutual goal and that was the significance of the achievement . |
| 19 | During 1915 , Germany and her bolstered ally , Austria , were to achieve great successes in the east and make large conquests of territory , but any prospect of a quick victory for the Central Powers , upon which all had been so confidently staked , were now forfeited beyond redemption . |
| 20 | Ammunition , provender , railway lines — all had been provided with Teutonic thoroughness . |
| 21 | The interviews were carried out some time after the abuse had been established , so that while all had been on the child abuse register only half were still on the register when interviewed . |
| 22 | All had been festering for many years . |
| 23 | At his first formal meeting with the chairmen after all had been appointed , he outlined how he might achieve the generalisation and standardisation of ‘ better practice ’ : |
| 24 | All had been clinically stable for over three weeks . |
| 25 | Nicholas stood up as if all had been thoroughly discussed and decided . |
| 26 | And of the heads , perhaps not surprisingly , the most effective of all had been Shakespeare 's ; it had scythed its way through a whole astonished platoon of sepoys advancing in single file through the jungle . |
| 27 | Standing there , surveying the hall , so pleasant now ( though she knew that really she ought to get carpet foam and do over the carpet which after all had been folded up in the dust of the skip ) , she saw that Philip had mended the little cupboard under the stairs that the policeman had kicked in . |
| 28 | His best friend , Simon , was one of six children and all had been members in their turn . |
| 29 | Of course , if all had been there the second day the justices could well , and should in my judgment , have invited them to consider the intention that they then had to substitute prohibited steps orders for the sought after care order . |
| 30 | ‘ all had been agreed between the husband and the manager on the Friday , and … the manager left it to the husband to persuade the wife to come to the bank on the Monday to execute the charge and sign the guarantee . |