Example sentences of "had been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That moment in the courtyard when their eyes had met had been real after all ! |
| 2 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 3 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 4 | Despite his youth he had travelled alone , sleeping in barns along the route , with which he had been familiar through previous trips in his father 's company . |
| 5 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 6 | He had been unhappy about efflorescent damp . |
| 7 | Iran gave the impression that it believed Iraq was planning to replace them with single-buoy moorings ( SBMs ) , a subject on which rumour had been rife since 1980 . |
| 8 | This latter possibility had been uppermost in loyalist minds since January of the previous year when O'Neill had broken with all previous precedent and invited Sean Lemass to Stormont . |
| 9 | Young , innocent , they had been malleable in those hands which were so practised in making something valuable out of raw or damaged material . |
| 10 | Getty , 59 , had been Premier since 1985 and had been re-elected in 1989 . |
| 11 | She replaced John Cain , who had been Premier since 1982 when the ALP had regained power within the state after 27 years in opposition [ see p. 31634 ] . |
| 12 | Compact disc technology had been available for some time , but the quadraphonic experiment had failed and videotape technology was in something of an impasse . |
| 13 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 14 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 15 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 16 | He came back a day or two later and they told him it definitely had been available before nineteen thirty-nine . ’ |
| 17 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 18 | Only nineteen MPs were heirs to peerages and of these seven were from families that had been Liberal before 1886 and another five were new creations since then ; thirty-eight MPs were related to peers by blood and another forty by marriage . |
| 19 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 20 | Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes . |
| 21 | And I remembered too the guns they 'd shown me , with the barrels roughly brazed to patch holes that had been blasted-out by home-made bullets too misshapen to find a smooth passage through when the gun was fired . |
| 22 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 23 | From the head 's point of view , the library had been underfunded for some time with an annual capitation of some £860 , supplemented ( not always willingly ) by a 5% levy on the capitation of each department . |
| 24 | Many of the debts sued for , all undefended , had been outstanding for three , four , five and six years , or even for a longer period . |
| 25 | He had been proud of that . |
| 26 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 27 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 28 | In 1963 , Butler and Stokes began a series of surveys which set a new pattern , and a new standard , for the study of voting behaviour in Britain : their sample was large , nation-wide , and was interviewed several times between 1963 and 1970 ; and the authors were concerned to apply a rigour that had been absent from most of the earlier single constituency studies of electoral choice . |
| 29 | Patrick too was watching the shops go by , remembering the last time he had walked down them , it had been early in 1916 , and he had gone out with Mickey — God Rest Him — to buy his mother an Easter gift . |
| 30 | Although Alex Salmond was chided by party activists during the march , the turnout of around 5,000 buoyed up party managers who had been fearful of low attendance after the MPs ' decision to vote with the Government last Monday night in the Commons in exchange for party representation on the Committee of the Regions . |