Example sentences of "had [adv] been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
| 2 | The OEO Agent had obviously been in continuous pain by the end of their long , slow hike , and Bernice was able to boost the feed of chemicals provided by Defries 's combat suit . |
| 3 | The principles of variation ornamentation , thematic reshaping , and so on — had long been in common use . |
| 4 | I also think he had been slightly influenced by Father D'Arcy , with whom lie had apparently been in recent touch . |
| 5 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 7 | And equally clearly , concealed in the base of the box , it had not been for public view . |
| 8 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |
| 9 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 10 | Football specials still arrive at Wadsley Bridge although the station had not been in normal use since 1959 . |
| 11 | She had not been in that position . |
| 12 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 13 | Harry had not been in good shape in Jo 's memory . |
| 14 | as if she had just been in actual combat she dropped down on to the couch and sat gasping , drawing in long , shuddering breaths . |
| 15 | Sadism had always been of theoretical interest to Freud , and he suggests in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that it derives its energy from the death instincts . |
| 16 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 17 | They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour . |
| 18 | A doctor was out of the question , Isabel would never see doctors , had always been in rude health , had not , indeed , wanted to call the doctor to Faith , until her colour had changed and , by her breathing , they had known that the illness was grave . |
| 19 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 20 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 21 | And the unions had also been through this scene recently . |
| 22 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 23 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 24 | Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together . |
| 25 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 26 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 27 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
| 28 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 29 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 30 | As investigators from the Mines Inspectorate , British Coal and unions began their inquiries into the accident , the company disclosed that the trapped men had never been in serious danger . |