Example sentences of "had been [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other . |
| 2 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 3 | The first observation I was able to make when the books were gathered together was that , although almost all the press coverage had been about public libraries , since they were the focus of political controversy , only c . |
| 4 | About half the planting under the scheme had been of broadleaved trees or native pinewoods . |
| 5 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 6 | Often there was scant evidence of academic activity , and this prompted criticism from some of those users who had been to mainstream schools . |
| 7 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 8 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 9 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 10 | A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education . |
| 11 | Economically , of course , it had never ceased and had been to both countries ' benefit . |
| 12 | Of the fathers of the boarders in these schools , 92 per cent were in the Registrar-General 's Class I or II , and 52 per cent had been to Public Schools themselves . |
| 13 | In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party . |
| 14 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
| 15 | From a random group of 36 judges of the Court of Appeal and the High Court , he found that 31 had been to public schools ( 86 per cent ) and 33 to Oxford or Cambridge ( 92 per cent ) . |
| 16 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 17 | The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising . |
| 18 | The powerful states of the time normally were empires , and had been for many centuries , though a few shadowy forerunners of the nation state could be seen by 1500 . |
| 19 | An older age group of superior tradesmen here and there — the public bar fraternity shunned the place , for this had been for many years the snob pub of Belgravia . |
| 20 | There had been for many years various organizations to co-ordinate Nonconformist work in both political and religious fields and the oldest bodies dated back to the previous century . |
| 21 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 22 | Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics . |
| 23 | These limitation terms were incorporated in all contracts between seedsmen and farmers and had been for many years . |
| 24 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 25 | Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms . |
| 26 | Of the temporary jobs concerned , nearly three quarters ( 70 per cent ) had been for six months or less ( Stern , 1982 ) . |
| 27 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 28 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 29 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 30 | While there clearly was an ‘ objective ’ discontinuity of subject perspective between selective school mathematics and the practice of some segments , increasingly dominant within some countries , of university mathematics , and had been for some years , it again required interested actors , utilizing the climate of ‘ crisis ’ resulting from the campaign on teacher supply as a major resource , to enter various arenas in order to persuade others of the ‘ need ’ for change . |