Example sentences of "had been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On all sides , both in the government service directly and in its associated echelons of closed institutions , corporations , committees , and ‘ quangos ’ , there had been evidence of a loss of national confidence . |
| 2 | had been kind of , or whatever they are Mr F and then on the back it 's got for Peggy 's six foot high and under plant eighteen inches apart for high six foot plus plant two feet apart |
| 3 | The weather had been kind for Boz 's wedding but it was less so for Tom and Dolly . |
| 4 | Although most of the new recruits to Kharkov 's metallurgical plants in 1914–17 had been ex-peasants from western Ukraine , there was no danger of nationalist sentiment ousting the Bolsheviks from the city . |
| 5 | There had been publicity for occasional outbursts of violence and bad language or for shocking displays of sexuality , but there had never really been a significant breakthrough in terms of outspoken social statement . |
| 6 | The Irish Industry Minister , Des O'Malley , stressed that a key factor in winning the project had been availability of computer scientists . |
| 7 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 8 | Recounting the history of Bilmarsh farm , Gough observed : ‘ Nathaniell Reve had a desire to been tenant of this farme , because his grandfather and father had been tenants to it before ’ . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal , Lord Donaldson MR taking the high ground that the function of the independent judiciary under the rule of law was simply to decide whether there had been compliance with the statute requiring the holding of a ballot , however unpopular the strike might be with the travelling public . |
| 10 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 11 | We had been bottom of the league in the 1960s and 1970s , but our GDP , business investment and manufacturing productivity grew faster during the 1980s than in Germany , France or many other countries . |
| 12 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 13 | Ecologists had been warning of the possibility of such a conflagration for some time . |
| 14 | There had been dissent over the issue of whether to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections on separate party lists . |
| 15 | Some 580,000 Estonians took part , exclusively people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Estonia and their descendants ; most of Estonia 's political parties fielded candidates , some with Popular Front endorsement . |
| 16 | Ahead of the Latvian Supreme Soviet session , the radical nationalist National Independence Movement organized on April 30-May 1 a rival " Congress of Latvia " , elected in privately organized elections in which only people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Latvia and their descendants were eligible to vote . |
| 17 | He had the medical advice of Sir Daniel Davies , who had been physician to Lloyd George and indeed to a number of misguided dignitaries who were influenced by his great reputation . |
| 18 | Since July 1400 he had been archdeacon of Dorset , absentee but perhaps not without interest . |
| 19 | What he overheard provided his first insight into the intimate sentiments of mature Fists who had been warriors for over seventy years — as the seven long-service studs on the craggy , crewcut forehead of each star-knight signified . |
| 20 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 21 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 22 | The man in charge of the fund , Brigadier Jimmy Chater , admitted that there had been problems with finding and helping Royal Warwickshire POWs , and agreed that the income from the fund exceeded the benefits paid out . |
| 23 | Last night Airtours admitted there had been problems with the apartments and apologised . |
| 24 | A British Rail spokesperson in York confirmed that there had been problems with the Settle and Carlisle . |
| 25 | There had been problems in his relationship with his girlfriend and indeed he 'd come to see my firm about six months ago because of the deterioration in that relationship and had general advice then about his legal position should there be a separation . |
| 26 | Ukraine and Byelarus had been members since 1945 , the three Baltic states joined in September 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] , Russia assumed the Soviet Union 's seat in December [ see p. 38744 ] , and the eight joining on March 2 were Armenia , Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan . |
| 27 | In the event , permission was given for Paisley and Beattie to go forward because they had been members of the Stormont Parliament before it had been suspended . |
| 28 | The show was worthy of the Cambridge Footlights , and I have no doubt that some of the participants had been members of that renowned dramatic society . |
| 29 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |
| 30 | Neill and Nicholls L.JJ. , both of whom had been members of the court sitting in Ashtiani v. |