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

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1 An older age group of superior tradesmen here and there — the public bar fraternity shunned the place , for this had been for many years the snob pub of Belgravia .
2 Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar .
3 Of these by-election gains more than half had been in straight fights , the implications of which were unmistakable .
4 A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education .
5 Immediately after the war , the Department of Antiquities in Baghdad compiled a four-volume list of missing objects ; many of these had been on long term loan from the Baghdad Museum to regional museums in Iraq .
6 From a random group of 36 judges of the Court of Appeal and the High Court , he found that 31 had been to public schools ( 86 per cent ) and 33 to Oxford or Cambridge ( 92 per cent ) .
7 Of the Bank 's new lending in fiscal 1991 , $5,200 million had been to Latin America and the Caribbean , $3,400 million to Africa , $7,500 million to Asian countries , and $6,600 million to Europe , the Middle East and North Africa .
8 None had experienced higher education , but 19 had been on some form of post-16 provision .
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