Example sentences of "had been [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also noted by the Court of Appeal , at p. 379C , that the Report of the Review Committee on Insolvency Law and Practice ( 1982 ) ( Cmnd. 8558 ) under the Chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Cork considered that the power , contained in any well-drawn floating charge , to appoint a receiver and manager of the property and undertaking of a company had been of outstanding public benefit . |
| 2 | Only thirty-four had been to other secondary schools , scarcely more than the number from the second most popular public school , Harrow . |
| 3 | She had been to Nice countless times . |
| 4 | SIR — A 37-year-old man , who had been on total parenteral nutrition for 2½ years after excision of his small bowel for a mesenteric desmoid tumour , found this regimen unacceptable and sought a small bowel allograft . |
| 5 | Mr David Ryan , who held the post in SouthWest Durham , had been on extended sick leave for some time and Mr Smith suspected rumours could have sprung from that fact . |
| 6 | Until April 1992 all his flying experience had been on conventional three-axis control aircraft . |
| 7 | In the lands west of the Rhine , there was in principle , as there had been in late Roman times , a count for each civitas , though in practice , one man often held two or more neighbouring civitates . |
| 8 | The Cooperative had been in severe financial difficulties for several years and in 1981 , after its own bank had withdrawn its support , it turned for help to the Canadian Cooperative Credit Society . |
| 9 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |