Example sentences of "had been [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter had been officially withdrawn two days before , and this was to be its final working . |
| 2 | But after the new concepts of form and space had been clearly formulated Cubist painting at once became much more personal , more human . |
| 3 | Bill 's loyalty to his apprentice had been ill rewarded this evening and no trainer could afford to be sentimental . |
| 4 | For example , on the crucial question of the medical condition of the evacuees , which was to cause so much controversy , the Board of Education believed that local authorities had been adequately warned that pediculosis ( head lice ) would be a problem and had been given instructions on how to disinfect children by the use of steam baths ; also that its memorandum Ev . |
| 5 | Since battle had been effectively joined last spring , when Major first considered going to the country , the parties had bludgeoned themselves into mutual exhaustion before the final clash of arms . |
| 6 | ‘ Up West ? ’ said Matey , handing Sally-Anne the china from the small dresser in the kitchen , which had been scrupulously washed that morning and was now being replaced by Sally-Anne who was standing on a small stool to reach the top shelf . |
| 7 | Later that afternoon the police , who had been diligently searching certain caravans on Turpin 's Field , spread their net wider . |
| 8 | Bad news had a habit of springing ghastly surprises , the way that shattering news about her mother had sprung the cruellest surprise of all … the way her foolish idyll last night had been ruthlessly shattered this morning … |
| 9 | Erm the nuclear industry also has erm er a subsidy , it 's known as the nuclear levy erm and there is reasons for that erm one is that erm some money has to be put aside to decommission nuclear power stations in the future erm now the s C G B , before it was broken up , had been actually putting some money aside year by year yeah ou ou out of the money that was generated fr er er from selling electricity nuclear power stations , some was put to one side , notionally , o on the accounts f f for a future decommissioning . |
| 10 | But it had been only to say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ( 8 ) . |
| 11 | He had been out working all day on a commission job for a fashionable hairdresser who was creating a branch in Los Angeles . |
| 12 | He was in better spirits and colour now , for he had been out walking several times with Luch since she had gently persuaded him to dress and go to the wedding . |
| 13 | From a mass popularity in 1975–8 , disco had moved beneath the surface to take root in the self-contained homosexual ghetto , which had been quietly developing newer definitions of self and pleasure . |
| 14 | He said the inquiry , carried out under terms unique to it and the Equal Opportunities Commission , had been formally initiated last month and could last up to a year . |
| 15 | He said the inquiry had been formally initiated last month and could last up to a year . |
| 16 | In districts where industrial crafts such as weaving or metalworking had been long established many families had a history of involvement in one or more of the local trades over several generations . |
| 17 | Throughout the 1970s I had been mainly studying black holes , but in 1981 my interest in questions about the origin and fate of the universe was reawakened when I attended a conference on cosmology organized by the Jesuits in the Vatican . |
| 18 | For one brief moment , it seemed as if there might be a conventional route to fame , through the young director Roman Polanski who had just entered the fast new Hollywood crowd of which Nicholson was a member , as was his friend Robert Evans , who had been recently appointed vice president of Paramount and in charge of all new production projects . |
| 19 | The number of votes for wets , damps and dries could be accurately counted and a proportionate entitlement of votes could be accurately calculated only if candidates had been distinctively labelled Wet Conservative , Damp Conservative or Dry Conservative . |