Example sentences of "had [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 2 | Despite US-European commercial rivalry , the American hopes of 1948 for the creation of a stable , thriving , anti-communist Europe had arguably been fulfilled . |
| 3 | It had since been rebuilt ; its arched windows and roofs made it look like a Russian provincial home . |
| 4 | It had also been discovered that ANT , which had since been closed down , had been preparing other illegal export deals worth nearly US$900,000,000 involving items including valuable metals , uncut diamonds and classified aviation equipment . |
| 5 | The battalion , which had operated in Namibia and Angola , was composed largely of Angolan rebels who had fought in the Angolan civil war , and also a number of white mercenaries ; its members had since been given South African citizenship . |
| 6 | In official talks begun on June 10 , however , the then Romanian Environment Minister Simion Hincu told his Bulgarian counterpart , Aleksandur Aleksandrov , that the offending factory had been closed in 1988 , and that atmospheric emissions had since been within permissible limits . |
| 7 | Although the borders had officially been closed on May 2 , 1989 , they had since been crossed by large numbers of Somali refugees , some of whom were now returning home . |
| 8 | Watanabe had also made derogatory comments about China and Brazil which he had since been forced to retract . |
| 9 | The Constitutional Court had been unable to rule on the code , as the version adopted at the Congress had since been altered . |
| 10 | But the coroner added that the water system had since been disinfected and was now cleaned out regularly . |
| 11 | The plaintiffs contended that they had thereby been deprived of the opportunity to bid for H.F. Co. but pill J. rejected their claim because while the law certainly allowed a freedom to bid for property that was neither a ‘ business asset ’ of the plaintiffs ' nor a legal right which the law would protect . |
| 12 | Heads of departments had thereby been deprived of ‘ a large measure of independence ’ . |
| 13 | Not only was the boy outnumbered in this predominantly female household — he had the additional problem of having to contend with a rather cumbersome and unusual first Christian name : Marwood James Henry Titford had presumably been named as such by way of homage to the vicar of Curry Rivel , the Rev. Charles Marwood Speke Mules . |
| 14 | The Steward 's group had presumably been discovered entering the semi-ruinous domestic quarters of kitchens , bakehouse , larders and so on , at that side . |
| 15 | The daughter of a warehouseman , she was 26 years old in 1910 , so had presumably been more than ten years in the trade . |
| 16 | They had presumably been drawn to Bologna as students and had stayed there to carve themselves out a teaching or professional career . |
| 17 | Because the endoscopical findings in RP often include serpiginous ulcerations , fissures , and ileitis proximal to the pouch , the syndrome has often been attributed to underlying Crohn 's disease , the diagnosis of which had presumably been ‘ missed ’ both clinically and pathologically up to and including the time of colectomy . |
| 18 | The Society had eventually been eclipsed by the more active and famous Liberation Society . |
| 19 | Its function had eventually been fourfold . |
| 20 | Particularly important were his decision to tie Germany into the Atlantic Alliance externally and his demonstration that the ‘ social market economy ’ could work internally. : both policies had eventually been accepted by the SPD opposition , thus providing a fundamental consensus between the major parties regarding the shape of West Germany . |
| 21 | It had eventually been decided to limit the statements to accounts of atrocities alleged to have been committed only between June and August 1944 , so that they could be tied precisely to Kesselring 's orders . |
| 22 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 23 | A warrant for Proksch 's arrest had eventually been issued in March 1988 . |
| 24 | ( 14 May 1778 ) In the same letter Mozart informed his father that he had unofficially been offered the post of organist at Versailles which , if he were to accept , would mean spending six months of the year in Versailles and the remaining six months wherever he liked . |
| 25 | Danny had mercifully been persuaded to leave his ghetto-blaster behind , but this had been against his better judgement , and Rachel soon realised his silence was in fact a form of sulking . |
| 26 | During the war years , the Russian artist had rarely been able to sell his work and he took to following Zborowski round like a shadow , hanging about outside the Rotonde . |
| 27 | It had rarely been his style to use that instrument . |
| 28 | Local elections confirmed the trend and their historian has interpreted them as showing that " by 1913 , the Conservatives had rarely been stronger in the Councils of the land , or indeed more poised for success in the forthcoming general election " . |
| 29 | She had rarely been kissed . |
| 30 | Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia . |