Example sentences of "had been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal was effectively concluded in November 1992 , but had been pending final approval by the European Community , which is financing the project under its PHARE programme . |
| 2 | The deal was effectively concluded in November 1992 , but had been pending final approval by the European Community , which is financing the project under its PHARE programme . |
| 3 | Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 5 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 6 | Secondly there 's some of the nurses who were n't present at the meeting three weeks ago who had been present three years ago . |
| 7 | On the other hand the number of university graduates greatly increased : many of them had served in the forces , usually as officers , and several had been temporary civil servants . |
| 8 | That winter had been savage , she had been savage that winter . |
| 9 | There had been intermittent heavy firing and tank movements around the presidential palace since the previous night , reportedly by dissident officers seeking to prevent Tesfaye Gebre Kidan from ordering a unilateral ceasefire — which he in fact did that evening . |
| 10 | All the houses in the village had been small single-storey homes , perhaps only four square metres in area . |
| 11 | If this had been ordinary civil litigation I would have agreed . |
| 12 | While his predecessors had been ordinary royal humans . |
| 13 | There had been strong anti-JNA feeling in Slovenia since the notorious 1988 trial of journalists and a warrant officer accused of illegally disclosing secret plans for a military clampdown against Slovene liberals [ see pp. 36374 ; 36663 ] . |
| 14 | Criticism of it was by no means new : a generation earlier , in the second decade of the century , there had been various anti-enclosure measures , an Act in 1515 to prevent the conversion of land from tillage to pasture , and the establishment of commissions of enquiry by Wolsey in 1517 and 1518 to investigate the extent of enclosures . |
| 15 | But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter . |
| 16 | Because she 'd seen the bottle , and it had been good French burgundy … |
| 17 | See if it had been nice this Saturday we could 've gone and got the wheel back on the caravan but |
| 18 | There had been occasional brief meetings to discuss some detail of the conversion . |
| 19 | In the first place , his appearance had changed : what had been youthful good looks had changed into a sort of equine distress . |
| 20 | Many had been awake all night , listening with increasing horror to the first confused reports of the massacre in Peking . |
| 21 | She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap . |
| 22 | Five others had been unsuccessful Parliamentary candidates , three of them being Conservatives . |
| 23 | She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely . |
| 24 | In the first place protectionism had been traditional Conservative policy before the emergence of free trade and Joseph Chamberlain had revived some sympathy for the idea in the early twentieth century . |
| 25 | They had been married fourteen years and there were four strapping children . |
| 26 | The last one on the roll said 12.18 and we had been married eight minutes . |
| 27 | The couple had been married nine years . |
| 28 | After losing his wife he had nearly gone to pieces ; yet they had been married six years . |
| 29 | She had been married 19 years ; they had no children together , but each had a son from a previous marriage . |
| 30 | The first photo on the roll said 12.13 , and we had been married three minutes . |