Example sentences of "[adv] had been a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was shivering , but it was not with the cold , nor even reaction to what apparently had been a near escape . |
| 2 | The apartment she had been in had been a single room — like his own , spartanly furnished — and she had had to share washing and night-soil facilities . |
| 3 | At this point Joan got a surprise visitor ; Vera Long had been a technical instructor in Occupational Therapy in York area hospitals , and enthused about Joan 's marvellous dogs . |
| 4 | He always had been a perfect gentleman . |
| 5 | Although David Cecil was and always had been a devout Christian , he became the favourite candidate of those who resented the ‘ clerical candidate ’ , the man who had been put up by Lewis , just because he was a Christian . |
| 6 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 7 | She felt remarkably at ease with this man who only three nights before had been a total stranger . |
| 8 | Each stage of the selection process so far had been a complete surprise : the waiting tended to heighten the anticipation and sense of cowed nervousness we all felt . |
| 9 | Today had been a good day . |
| 10 | Part of his decision to study abroad had been a personal protest against the ditching of full-blooded socialism by Harold Wilson 's Labour government . |
| 11 | I knew an empty beer keg when I was tied to one , and the last time I 'd seen that particular one there had been a young punk called Emma sitting on it nostrilling certain noxious and probably illegal substances . |
| 12 | A bomb exploded outside the house of Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas in Sana'a on May 15 ; on the night of May 9-10 there had been a similar explosion outside the home of Salim Salih Mohammed , a member of Yemen 's provisional Presidential Council and of the Yemen Socialist Party leadership . |
| 13 | Sergeant Paul McAllister , one of the officers called to the house , said : ‘ It was obvious there had been a physical dispute , although it was over when we arrived . ’ ’ . |
| 14 | And there certainly had been a great deal of stress and tension — almost from the first few weeks following their wedding : Lady Nancy Wyndham 's total opposition to their marriage ; her own mother 's sudden untimely death , followed by her father 's long-drawn-out and eventually terminal illness ; the total immersion of Ross in his business affairs , and — the final catalyst — the affair between Ross and his personal assistant , Marissa Kenton . |