Example sentences of "had been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediate catalyst for his removal was an inept press conference on Dec. 5 in which he declared the recession to be abating , only hours before the publication of official figures which showed that GDP had declined 0.3 per cent in the three months to September , the sixth successive quarter for which it had been either static or negative . |
| 2 | The predicament of the Attorney General during the protracted proceedings had been particularly awkward . |
| 3 | The Reichs Archives speak of the day 's fighting being ‘ one of the most heroic ’ of the entire battle , an adjective not infreqently used by First World War officialdom when casualties had been particularly hideous . |
| 4 | Some of the first signs that Britain and the United States might draw together against a new common threat appeared in the Middle East , a region ironically where the British had been particularly anxious to uphold their predominant influence , even against the Americans . |
| 5 | His wife had been particularly anxious that Guppy should surrender any remaining money from his crimes , said Mr Langdale . |
| 6 | It seems reasonable to suppose that they had been particularly depressed by the economic conditions of the inter-war period . |
| 7 | The researches of Robert Whiting into the impact of the official reformation on the people of Devon and Cornwall have revealed that even in this conservative part of the country , where attachment to Catholic ritual had been particularly strong , statues of the saints began to disappear from churches soon after their condemnation by the Henrician injunctions , and within a short space of time the wills of the laity contained fewer references to images or intercessory masses . |
| 8 | The autumn harvest uprisings , for example , in the autumn of nineteen twenty seven which consisted of attempts to lead peasant risings erm in various parts of the countryside , particularly in the area er around here er Kiang See and so on where the peasant associations had been particularly strong . |
| 9 | Attempts by the CP to identify the ILP with the policies of MacDonald had been particularly annoying . |
| 10 | Kylie 's astute accountant father had been particularly impressed by Blamey 's management of stars like Mark ‘ Jacko ’ Jackson . |
| 11 | For instance , he had been particularly close to his mother . |
| 12 | A couple of years after coming out , I met a heterosexual woman with whom I had been particularly close before I had blasted our cosy set up out of the water . |
| 13 | Miss Blundell had been particularly nice to her . |
| 14 | His existence had been particularly dull , holding down brief part-time work selling clothes in Manchester 's underground fashion world . |
| 15 | ‘ This was going to be a celebration tonight , ’ Roirbak said , disconsolately gathering the pieces of a robot Lennon had been particularly vicious with . |
| 16 | Their bruised shoulders and backs reminded them that the cai and the French assistants had been particularly vicious that morning . |
| 17 | That night had been particularly joyous , because Ashi felt that at last her family was allowing her to blossom fully into womanhood . |
| 18 | As he ended , there was an enormous cheer on our side and I saw one of our backbenchers who had been particularly critical over the weekend waving his order paper in enthusiastic support . |
| 19 | They called themselves the Clamshell Alliance after the local clam fishers , who had been particularly upset by the plan . |
| 20 | Some of the Stationeri had been particularly upset about common , everyday nomes learning to read . |
| 21 | Longman Group UK 's educational publishing had been particularly successful , she said : ‘ Longman Education took advantage of the exciting changes taking place in its market place and considerably increased its sales and market share , while Longman Higher Education 's refocus on its key academic markets paid off handsomely . ’ |
| 22 | ( Her niece told me that she had been particularly good at her job . ) |
| 23 | The thought of an immediate confrontation with Jake was not one which Shiona had been particularly relishing . |
| 24 | Studies of this kind were influenced first by studies and methods of denudation chronology , of which they naturally formed the later stages , and secondly by developments in the study of the Pleistocene where the work of Zeuner ( 1945 , 1958 ) and the work of geologists ( e.g. Wright , 1937 ; Flint , 1947 ; Charlesworth , 1957 ) had been particularly influential . |
| 25 | The report alleged that human rights violations had been particularly blatant in areas of armed insurgency , notably Punjab , Kashmir and Assam , where security forces were given a " licence to torture and kill " . |
| 26 | Bill McKay , Head of TCMS , thought the course had been particularly helpful to TCMS 's new recruits , two of whom , Dennis Barron and Kirsty MacGregor , joined the Bank only last October . |
| 27 | It was Janet who found , during the course of his work , that patients suffering from what he termed ‘ neurotic disorders ’ would often have significant gaps in their long-term memories — they had actually managed to block out incidents from long ago which had been particularly painful or excessively distressing . |
| 28 | Castle ward councillor Henry Spyvee had been particularly concerned about gangs of drunken youths roaming the streets on Saturday afternoons , leaving broken bottles in their wake . |
| 29 | Kuwait had been particularly concerned about the plans for an American Rapid Deployment Force . |
| 30 | The fields were spread thick with buttercups and the may blossom which had been particularly plentiful this year was beginning to turn and fall . |