Example sentences of "had been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 2 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 3 | Despite his youth he had travelled alone , sleeping in barns along the route , with which he had been familiar through previous trips in his father 's company . |
| 4 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 5 | This latter possibility had been uppermost in loyalist minds since January of the previous year when O'Neill had broken with all previous precedent and invited Sean Lemass to Stormont . |
| 6 | Young , innocent , they had been malleable in those hands which were so practised in making something valuable out of raw or damaged material . |
| 7 | Compact disc technology had been available for some time , but the quadraphonic experiment had failed and videotape technology was in something of an impasse . |
| 8 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 9 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 10 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 11 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 12 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 13 | And I remembered too the guns they 'd shown me , with the barrels roughly brazed to patch holes that had been blasted-out by home-made bullets too misshapen to find a smooth passage through when the gun was fired . |
| 14 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 15 | From the head 's point of view , the library had been underfunded for some time with an annual capitation of some £860 , supplemented ( not always willingly ) by a 5% levy on the capitation of each department . |
| 16 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 17 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 18 | Although Alex Salmond was chided by party activists during the march , the turnout of around 5,000 buoyed up party managers who had been fearful of low attendance after the MPs ' decision to vote with the Government last Monday night in the Commons in exchange for party representation on the Committee of the Regions . |
| 19 | The previous day had been one of frantic activity . |
| 20 | The century had been one of tremendous change and older views , like the emphasis on individualism , were being modified and in some cases challenged by the closing decades of the century . |
| 21 | Throughout the tour , his bearing had been one of well-mannered gravity . |
| 22 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
| 23 | At home , as she still thought of it , the evening had been one of shared companionship and merrymaking but here , once joined by the family , the workers were subdued , their voices muted . |
| 24 | From the Wash in the east to the Dee in the west , as far north as York , to Amesbury in the south , the night had been one of monstrous destruction . |
| 25 | In the past , Eliot 's reaction to the multiple interpretations of The Waste Land had been one of benign neglect — it was his apparently settled belief that the author 's interpretation of his work is no more pertinent than that of the reader . |
| 26 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 27 | Nordhausen had been one of these places . |
| 28 | It had been one of those mornings when the early sun striking the coloured glass of the landing window had tinted the dark hall with amber light . |
| 29 | It had been one of those days . |
| 30 | It had been one of those days when everything had gone wrong : the stake-out at the Saudi Embassy had produced exactly nothing ; a false alarm , and after six , agonisingly boring hours , Cowley had called through the most welcome of messages : Go home lads . |