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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | All the houses in the village had been small single-storey homes , perhaps only four square metres in area . |
| 6 | If this had been ordinary civil litigation I would have agreed . |
| 7 | While his predecessors had been ordinary royal humans . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Because she 'd seen the bottle , and it had been good French burgundy … |
| 11 | There had been occasional brief meetings to discuss some detail of the conversion . |
| 12 | In the first place , his appearance had changed : what had been youthful good looks had changed into a sort of equine distress . |
| 13 | Five others had been unsuccessful Parliamentary candidates , three of them being Conservatives . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | If there had been sufficient other evidence of participation he might have been properly convicted . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 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 | Prior to Gorbachev 's visit there had been intense diplomatic activity between the two countries . |
| 25 | It now seems clear that there had been intense military activity near Loughgall before last night 's shooting , as one eye witness recounts : |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At that moment Captain Robins , who had been busy shouting orders , hailed Reid . |
| 28 | The crew had been busy running cargo and vehicles on a waterborne Main Supply Route until just after midnight . |
| 29 | Then she said as casually as if the previous conversation had been trivial small talk which was already half forgotten : ‘ What about next Sunday ? |
| 30 | 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 . |