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 | Of the remaining 176 ( 38 per cent ) , 16 had been present for 20–45 years and two for an astonishing 50 years . |
| 20 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 21 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 22 | ‘ Was that why you told Danny she shaved ? ’ asked Camille , who had been present on that occasion . |
| 23 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 24 | I had been right about one thing — an enormous procession of funeral guests was making its steady way into the riverside church . |
| 25 | Prior William had been right about one thing . |
| 26 | Joan Durbeyfield , watching , wondered for the first time if she had been right in encouraging Tess to go . |
| 27 | Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years . |
| 28 | Lynall Urwick put forward a counter-argument that a wide span of control had been possible in this example because the work of the merchandising managers did not interlock , and so the need for coordination and integration was not present : this reduced the burdens of supervision and made a wider span of control feasible . |
| 29 | At the trial of the action in 1979 Reeve J declined to take into account the supervening spinal disease and awarded damages on the basis that the plaintiff had been capable of light work , not on the basis that he had been incapable of work since 1976 in consequence of a disease for which his employers were in no way responsible . |
| 30 | The Christian despotism of Louis XIV had been content with outward obedience rather than the subjection of the heart : Hitler and Stalin were mass-murderers because for them outward obedience was not enough . |