Example sentences of "had been [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | That winter had been savage , she had been savage that winter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If this had been ordinary civil litigation I would have agreed . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter . |
| 10 | Because she 'd seen the bottle , and it had been good French burgundy … |
| 11 | Many had been awake all night , listening with increasing horror to the first confused reports of the massacre in Peking . |
| 12 | She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap . |
| 13 | She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If the heaving had continued , if there had been continuous restless movement , existence inside the train would have been impossible . |
| 16 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 17 | Salvador Nava , 77 , an independent who had been the opposition coalition candidate in the gubernatorial election , was in the 12th day of a protest march from San Luis Potosí to Mexico City to expose what he said had been extensive electoral fraud . |
| 18 | ( Perhaps the fact that the pubs had been open all day had something to do with that . ) |
| 19 | If there had been sufficient other evidence of participation he might have been properly convicted . |
| 20 | In the 1970s the Labour government supported a private member 's Bill which took over an item which would have been included in its own programme if there had been sufficient parliamentary time . |
| 21 | And nobody 's order books had been full this summer . |
| 22 | The prime mover in setting up the group , which had been launched in Budapest in November 1989 ( Czechoslovakia had joined in May 1990 ) , had been Italian Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis . |
| 23 | The Human Rights Commission assigned to Tadeusz Mazowiecki , who had been Polish Prime Minister in 1989-90 , the task of collecting all " available and credible " information on human rights in Yugoslavia and particularly in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 24 | Trade had been bad that night so she thought he 'd be her last trick . |
| 25 | Prior to Gorbachev 's visit there had been intense diplomatic activity between the two countries . |
| 26 | It now seems clear that there had been intense military activity near Loughgall before last night 's shooting , as one eye witness recounts : |
| 27 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 28 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
| 29 | Fernando 's escaladun had been wonderful last night and not direct from the freezer . |
| 30 | The crew had been busy running cargo and vehicles on a waterborne Main Supply Route until just after midnight . |