Example sentences of "had been [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All the houses in the village had been small single-storey homes , perhaps only four square metres in area . |
| 5 | While his predecessors had been ordinary royal humans . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There had been occasional brief meetings to discuss some detail of the conversion . |
| 8 | In the first place , his appearance had changed : what had been youthful good looks had changed into a sort of equine distress . |
| 9 | Five others had been unsuccessful Parliamentary candidates , three of them being Conservatives . |
| 10 | They had been married fourteen years and there were four strapping children . |
| 11 | The last one on the roll said 12.18 and we had been married eight minutes . |
| 12 | The couple had been married nine years . |
| 13 | After losing his wife he had nearly gone to pieces ; yet they had been married six years . |
| 14 | She had been married 19 years ; they had no children together , but each had a son from a previous marriage . |
| 15 | The first photo on the roll said 12.13 , and we had been married three minutes . |
| 16 | Mr Fuller , who had been married three times , dealt in second-hand cars and dabbled in property and building . |
| 17 | No she was there in the beginning with a , , then she left and , she had been married three years . |
| 18 | He was diving with his wife Deborah they had been married 15 days off the resort town of Byron Bay , 400 miles north of Sydney . |
| 19 | The veteran leaders of both of the country 's main parties , who had been personal political rivals since the 1960s , resigned their party posts during February-March . |
| 20 | Last year the London evening newspapers had been able several times to trot out their favourite banner headline . |
| 21 | Before the decisive revolt , which provoked the full-scale Roman backlash , there had been numerous abortive insurrections extending back to Jesus 's time and , indeed , well before . |
| 22 | To him , Zambia had been virgin six times over , and each deflowering had been more intense than the last . |
| 23 | There had been severe westerly gales a few days before , and these skuas had probably been displaced off their normal migration routes by the storm . |
| 24 | Sam came back frowning and , stretching inside without stepping into the water , pressed the three switches that had been unresponsive two days earlier . |
| 25 | At that moment Captain Robins , who had been busy shouting orders , hailed Reid . |
| 26 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |
| 27 | He described the deaths as " premeditated murders " by the Serbian forces in the region of Tropoje , Kukes , and Pogradec and said that the victims had been unarmed economic migrants . |
| 28 | Teachers had begun to realise there was a strong case for the teaching of knowledge about language in ways very different from those that had been fashionable thirty years earlier . |
| 29 | There had been enormous economic advances , which had been possible only on a basis of mutual assistance . |