Example sentences of "had been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the way home I was so happy ; everything had been worth while , everything was going to be all right . |
| 2 | In spite of his ritual attempt to distance himself from the young man who had written that poem , he knew very well that even his contemporary reputation in large part rested on it : that , and the last three of the Four Quartets , he told Ezra Pound , had been worth writing . |
| 3 | In the 80s , the tendency had been towards deregulation ; that would reverse in the 90s to re-regulation . |
| 4 | Although he differentiated his position from that of Draper , suggesting that the struggle had been between science and dogmatic theology rather than between science and religion , A. D. White insisted that there had been a theological and a scientific view of every question , invariably at odds . |
| 5 | The row had been about drinking ; it generally was . |
| 6 | If he had fought Dadda , with the backing of the school and the rumblings there had been about court orders to override parents , if he had struggled , he could have got there . |
| 7 | Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm . |
| 8 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 9 | Mrs Bennet had been into town and brought back details of the damage . |
| 10 | The VP , however , remained the dominant force in Vanuatu politics as it had been since independence , and won all five by-elections in December 1989 caused by the resignations of the Sope faction after the leadership struggle . |
| 11 | The necessity of constructing popular consent among the electorate was an important component of Conservative thought , and had been since extension of the franchise to sections of the urban working classes in 1867 . |
| 12 | Yet blind instinct told her that Rohan was her man , and had been since time began . |
| 13 | It was dark , and had been since mid-afternoon . |
| 14 | She tried to make allowances , constantly reminding herself of the responsibility Nathan was carrying and how long he had been without sleep . |
| 15 | Notice that over 40 per cent of those people unemployed on the day of the count had been without work for over a year . |
| 16 | By April 1986 , 186,711 men had been without work for more than five years , a sum nearly five times greater than the same group four decades earlier . |
| 17 | Of managerial and professional workers unemployed in 1985 , 18.1 per cent had been without work for up to six months , compared to 12.2 per cent of those who had been without a job for between two and three years . |
| 18 | While 39 per cent of those unemployed for up to six months were manual workers , this group made up almost half the unemployed who had been without work for between two and three years . |
| 19 | Of the total sample , 5 per cent had been without work for more than a year . |
| 20 | Taking men of working-class origin of the same age group in 1983 , and signifying unemployment as a separate category , the survey found 22 per cent were upwardly mobile , 40 per cent remained in working-class positions , while a further 11 per cent had been pushed down into unemployment , and over half of this last group had been without work for over a year . |
| 21 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 22 | Asked how the princess had been during lunch , Lord Healey said : ‘ The princess was wonderful . |
| 23 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |
| 24 | The majority had been of wood and most of these were lost through fire . |
| 25 | His first feelings had been of shock and then fear . |
| 26 | It exposed him to some influences that were thoroughly unhelpful , but as a matter of loyalty , and nothing else , he would not discard the people who , he believed , had been of help to him . |
| 27 | None of the attackers , all of whom had been of subject races , had survived to be questioned . |
| 28 | It had been of course her suggestion that Mark 's pastoral visit should be no longer delayed . |
| 29 | erm Also while she still lived , he had been of course inhibited from putting down on paper very much of a novel which , now largely formed in his mind , and in which sexual abnormality would play erm at least a considerable part . |
| 30 | He had proved himself in battle ; he had been of service . |