Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And nobody 's order books had been full this summer . |
| 2 | ( Perhaps the fact that the pubs had been open all day had something to do with that . ) |
| 3 | While his predecessors had been ordinary royal humans . |
| 4 | Last year the London evening newspapers had been able several times to trot out their favourite banner headline . |
| 5 | But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter . |
| 6 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 7 | Five others had been unsuccessful Parliamentary candidates , three of them being Conservatives . |
| 8 | He described the deaths as " premeditated murders " by the Serbian forces in the region of Tropoje , Kukes , and Pogradec and said that the victims had been unarmed economic migrants . |