Example sentences of "[adj] had been [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 2 | In view of future events it is important to note the absence of detail on agriculture , even though this had been designated a special economic activity which would be handled completely at the supranational level . |
| 3 | There was , however , this to be said : there had been political involvement under Miall in the 1840s but this had been to achieve a narrow , sectarian goal — disestablishment . |
| 4 | The floor was paved with marble flagstones , black and white so it looked like a chessboard , and on this had been laid the thickest rugs from Persia , India and Turkey . |
| 5 | A report from Australia on children who had swallowed dishwasher detergent revealed that nearly half had been given the wrong advice and made to vomit . |
| 6 | The basic logic of her programme since 1979 had been to reverse the main lines of her country 's history as it had developed since the Second World War . |
| 7 | In January 1991 Özal antagonized conservative nationalist currents within the ANAP by easing restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language , hoping thereby to improve Turkey 's minority rights record and to undercut support for the Kurdistan Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , which since 1984 had been waging a violent campaign in support of separatist demands . |
| 8 | Noir had belonged to the Renovator faction of the RPR which since 1989 had been challenging the existing structure of the right [ see pp. 37262 ; 37684 ; 36706 ] . |