Example sentences of "[det] 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 .
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