Example sentences of "had [adv] been [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud cites one young man in relation to his father and another in relation to his twin , as well as the main case , a young woman in relation to her mother : ‘ It , then , the girl became homosexual and left men to her mother ( in other words ‘ retired in favour of' ’ her mother ) , she would hitherto remove something which had hitherto been partly responsible for her mother 's dislike' ( ix . |
| 2 | She realised that she had only been half alive for the last four years . |
| 3 | And a recent book which has been very popular in the university , Goedel Esher Bach , which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got a quite a long article on how the author actually organized all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it had obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 4 | This alone had been enough to bring frowns to Felipe 's dark face , but as they were leaving Ana 's tears had suddenly been too much for Mitch to bear . |
| 5 | English gold had always been readily available for information of a political nature . |
| 6 | And that in modernity ( probably Giddens is clearest in this statement ) social actors can take cognizance of , and reflect rationally on , rules that had previously been only implicit for them . |
| 7 | Danu had never been that easy for him , even though the people had taken to the saints and images of Catholicism with the usual zeal of the pagan at heart . |
| 8 | Paige had never been more thankful for the darkness . |