Example sentences of "had [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although most of the new recruits to Kharkov 's metallurgical plants in 1914–17 had been ex-peasants from western Ukraine , there was no danger of nationalist sentiment ousting the Bolsheviks from the city . |
| 2 | But The Daily Graphic drew the gravest conclusions , suggesting that whereas earlier shooting cases had been accidents , they had become increasingly frequent and serious : |
| 3 | But already there had been hints that this would not be her day . |
| 4 | Even before he died there had been hints that all was not well between his Philippines-born wife , Rose — some 40 years his junior — and Gina Rinehart , Mr Hancock 's daughter by a previous marriage . |
| 5 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 6 | Recounting the history of Bilmarsh farm , Gough observed : ‘ Nathaniell Reve had a desire to been tenant of this farme , because his grandfather and father had been tenants to it before ’ . |
| 7 | There was the field where there had been potatoes . |
| 8 | Couple this with the fact that Leeds had been champions the season before , the decline in away fortunes was even more mysterious and worrying . |
| 9 | ‘ It is as if Woburn and Whipsnade had been trans ported to a fantasy island , ’ said a British ex-pat . |
| 10 | Modernists of the 1910s had been Latin-lovers , and often enough ( like Pound and Eliot ) immigrants ; Bloomsbury was ardently francophile ; and in the 1930s W. H. Auden and his school , if only to show they were not Modernist and not Bloomsbury , had haunted Hamburg and Berlin and admired German communism . |
| 11 | Some 580,000 Estonians took part , exclusively people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Estonia and their descendants ; most of Estonia 's political parties fielded candidates , some with Popular Front endorsement . |
| 12 | Ahead of the Latvian Supreme Soviet session , the radical nationalist National Independence Movement organized on April 30-May 1 a rival " Congress of Latvia " , elected in privately organized elections in which only people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Latvia and their descendants were eligible to vote . |
| 13 | What he overheard provided his first insight into the intimate sentiments of mature Fists who had been warriors for over seventy years — as the seven long-service studs on the craggy , crewcut forehead of each star-knight signified . |
| 14 | The Old Testament kings had been warriors and conquerors , smiting their enemies , but they had also been vehicles through whom the law of God was interpreted and enforced . |
| 15 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 16 | There had been times , after all , while he 'd been serving his stretch in prison that he really had wondered whether he had hallucinated it all ; wondered whether he was losing his mind . |
| 17 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 18 | There had been times , especially after a long busy night at the club , when she had been severely tempted to just throw in the towel and thumb through the Yellow Pages to find the nearest painter and decorator to hand . |
| 19 | There had been others lacking in imagination , who stuck to the basic facts but lent them theatrical weight . |
| 20 | Unless there had been others , and she had n't remembered . |
| 21 | He wondered whether there had been others , also tucked out of sight , and he tried again to see a connection between the recipients he knew of . |
| 22 | There had been others — furtive fumblings , not by her design or wish , in corridors such as that . |
| 23 | The man in charge of the fund , Brigadier Jimmy Chater , admitted that there had been problems with finding and helping Royal Warwickshire POWs , and agreed that the income from the fund exceeded the benefits paid out . |
| 24 | Last night Airtours admitted there had been problems with the apartments and apologised . |
| 25 | A British Rail spokesperson in York confirmed that there had been problems with the Settle and Carlisle . |
| 26 | There had been problems in his relationship with his girlfriend and indeed he 'd come to see my firm about six months ago because of the deterioration in that relationship and had general advice then about his legal position should there be a separation . |
| 27 | In the event , permission was given for Paisley and Beattie to go forward because they had been members of the Stormont Parliament before it had been suspended . |
| 28 | The show was worthy of the Cambridge Footlights , and I have no doubt that some of the participants had been members of that renowned dramatic society . |
| 29 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |
| 30 | Neill and Nicholls L.JJ. , both of whom had been members of the court sitting in Ashtiani v. |