Example sentences of "[adj] had [be] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been a central theme of Left propaganda , appealing to a movement which had always tended to think dichotomously . |
| 2 | This had been a cruel blow , but it would n't stop her from ensuring that justice was done . |
| 3 | Of the 23 disabled professionals who had been accepted for training as disabled people , eight reported that their entry qualifications were better than average , and five thought that this had been a major factor in their acceptance for training . |
| 4 | Once this had been a thriving town , prospering on fishing and tourism and the naval college . |
| 5 | Since the war , or at least since the post-war pattern settled into what looked like immobility round about 1950 , this had been a stony field to work in . |
| 6 | But I soon found that this had been a dubious choice . |
| 7 | Although Perot refused to endorse the candidacies of either Clinton or Bush , he conceded that the Democratic Party had done " a brilliant job " in reviving itself , and that this had been a key factor in his decision to withdraw . |
| 8 | This had been a great success in both countries not only for the deaf but for their hearing fellow citizens , who made " learning sign language " the second most popular study after English in adult education . |
| 9 | A BR spokeswoman said today : ‘ This had been a prolonged negotiation which has now been resolved . |
| 10 | Underlying this had been a deeper fear of more extreme socialists , especially the syndicalists , who might threaten violence and revolution . |
| 11 | ‘ If this had been a Serbian place you would have sent 500 troops here , I guarantee it , ’ Mr Delimustafic said . |
| 12 | He was reflecting , perhaps , that this had been an easier job than the electrical wiring . |
| 13 | With a lot of misgivings , I eventually withdrew — and within weeks , as new opportunities opened up , it was clear this had been the right decision for me . |
| 14 | I wondered if this had been the right place to come at all . |
| 15 | I think this had been the former jockey 's house , for the Kirkwoods of Woodbrook survived into the middle of the twentieth century by breeding racehorses . |
| 16 | There was no way of being certain how long she 'd spent on the ward ; it might have been six weeks or six years , but she was guessing at six months because this had been the first commission review that she 'd received . |
| 17 | This had been the supreme ruler of the Althosian system . |
| 18 | In the UK and FRG an average of 9 per cent of company employees worked in R&D and this had been the traditional level in the industry for several years . |
| 19 | This had been the whole crux of Myra 's long-term problem . |
| 20 | It is as if this had been the artificial carapace which had now dissolved and there emerged the smiling , bright-eyed figure of Eliot , with an expression close to that of the photographs taken of him in childhood . |
| 21 | Then , in a remarkable display of vacillation , he proceeded to pour cold water on Knobelsdorf 's assertion that ‘ the fate of the French Army will be decided at Verdun ’ though this had been the very foundation of his own Memorandum of less than four months earlier . |
| 22 | This had been the basic premise of a proposal made in late August by the Netherlands ( holder of the presidency of the Council of Ministers in the second half of 1991 ) specifying four conditions for economic convergence : ( i ) a high degree of price stability , indicated by a level of inflation close to that of the best-performing state for a two-year period ; ( ii ) a sustainable government financial position , indicated by budget deficits deemed not to be excessive ; ( iii ) currency within the 2.5 per cent fluctuation margins of the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European Monetary System for at least two years without devaluation against other member state 's currency ; and ( iv ) a close approximation of comparable interest rates to those member states with the best performance in terms of price stability . |
| 23 | Describing 1989 as ‘ a fantastic year for freedom ’ , Mrs Thatcher said 1979 had been a turning point in history and Conservatives were the pathfinders . |
| 24 | To a considerable extent the Europe of the Six had been a Christian Democrat creation . |
| 25 | Chief amongst these had been the inescapable fact that she must get rid of Rose Cottage . |
| 26 | However , on Oct. 6 following talks on the same day with Sirimavo Bandaranaike , the leader of the opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) , President Ranasinghe Premadasa agreed to consider the formation of an interim all-party administration and the holding of a referendum on the country 's executive presidential system ; the latter had been a major demand of the SLFP , which opposed the concept of the executive presidency . |
| 27 | Another BTO survey found that 1992 had been a good breeding season for songbirds . |
| 28 | The lives of the great had been the main subject of their stories , in romance , in drama , and subsequently in the novel . |
| 29 | Like 1929 , 1949 had been a bad year for believing that God was on America 's side . |
| 30 | 1977 had been an odd vintage , at CRD . |