Example sentences of "[adv] had been the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tutorial Classes were firmly in the university sector and some LEAs were arranging classes which hitherto had been the preserve of the WEA , e.g. civics and esperanto , and even as early as 1936 , the number was relatively substantial ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 2 | Sally-Anne took the kiss and the last sight of him standing in the parlour in his beautiful evening clothes up to bed with her , and agreed with him — for really the end of the evening and their happy supper together had been the best thing of all . |
| 3 | Carnelian must know special runes to inscribe around the eye-screen and arcane litanies to incant , to make it serve this two-way purpose , which perhaps had been the true purpose of the device in the first place … |
| 4 | His reaction to the news that Sir Bryan 's bag had been handed in had been the outcome of his sombre thoughts during the night . |
| 5 | So had been the doctoring and the surgery . |
| 6 | Yesterday had been the group 's first taste of real sunshine and comparative warmth and it had fired their enthusiasm . |
| 7 | There were churches and cathedrals all around this spot which once had been the centre of the of mediaeval town . |
| 8 | On the bare and blackened springs of what once had been the driver 's seat , sat the bare and blackened remains of what once had been something or other . |
| 9 | A woman who fought her way to the top of a liberation movement which traditionally had been the preserve mainly of men . |
| 10 | Those hospitals which formerly had been the responsibility of Boards of Guardians and later of the local authorities , together with the development of those hospitals which the local authorities brought about , including maternity hospitals , passed to the State under the National Health Service Act 1946 , and are now managed by selected and not by elected authorities . |
| 11 | The sound that had woken her up had been the sound of a knife passing through her windpipe . |
| 12 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 13 | Even at seventeen , which up to now had been the high point of her existence , the passions raised had not one tithe of the sizzling fire that had been generated by Benedict . |
| 14 | Otherwise- so quick had been the retreat through the Residency , the men fighting their way back from the hospital and across the yard would find themselves outflanked and unable to reach the connecting trench . |
| 15 | Today had been the first time since he died she had not been tortured with thoughts of her Anthony . |
| 16 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 17 | He had set up in practice on his own about nine years before the competition , and his most important executed work up until then had been the Tudor style Royal Infirmary at Dundee ( 1852–5 ) , which he had won in competition . |
| 18 | The National Assembly was dissolved , and Cape Verde members withdrew from the single party , the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde — PAIGC ) , which until then had been the ruling party in both countries . |
| 19 | The young KGB girl , who only a short time earlier had been the eager recipient of General Vashinov 's favours , smiled at Duncan . |
| 20 | A more serious constraint earlier had been the weight of components which had to be transported by road , but the adoption of hydrogen-cooling of the rotor ( pioneered in America before the War ) now made it possible to reduce the size of components in the larger sets . |
| 21 | A Hoxha monument was also attacked on Feb. 20 by protesters in the port of Durrës , which 11 days earlier had been the scene of rioting by would-be emigrants trying illegally to board a ferry for Italy . |
| 22 | Earlier had been the months in bed on traction , then being encased in plaster , and later figure-moulded ( embarrassing ! ) suit of plastic armour which at least allowed me to undo it and bath occasionally . |
| 23 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 24 | suddenly , musicians can be working with engineers , producers and a whole host of technical equipment which previously had been the stuff of their dreams . |
| 25 | When they reached the building , Jack shone his torch through a broken window illuminating the interior of what evidently had been the booking office . |
| 26 | Many communities had become sharply divided as a result of the way the penal laws had been enforced at the local level , and understandably Nonconformists retained a deep distrust of their Anglican neighbours who until recently had been the agents of their destruction . |