Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] had be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , perhaps there had been a second bank-book , after all ? |
| 2 | Perhaps there had been a second confrontation after all and another loss of control . |
| 3 | ‘ If only there had been a little bit more flexibility on the United States side I think it could have been successfully accomplished . ’ |
| 4 | But before he did so there had been a fractional hesitation . |
| 5 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 6 | He was aware that Sidacai 's death at this point would be considered a waste , and so it had been a calculated risk to demonstrate readiness to accept a challenge . |
| 7 | It is shortened to just the second and third phrases , both of which are cadentially ‘ open ’ , and so what had been a self-sufficient arch shape is turned into continuous , open-ended variative repetition ( see Ex. 1.2 ) . |
| 8 | Nevertheless she had been a good , kind sister and looked after him very well . |
| 9 | Before 1970 , my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there had been a big bang singularity . |
| 10 | Since the third century B.C. there had been a Latin Hellenism , never identical with the Greek , but never separable from it . |
| 11 | Romania 's Interior Minister said yesterday there had been a counter-revolutionary plot by pro-Ceausescu forces but the situation was now stable despite sporadic shooting in the capital and other towns . |
| 12 | I knew later I had been a damn fool but … |
| 13 | In the pocket also there had been a clean handkerchief with a small card caught between its folds . |
| 14 | Rather there had been a subtle unravelling of what had once been a more integrated pattern of recreation . |
| 15 | THE first day of Yorkshire 's only County Championship match of the season at Middlesbrough was washed out yesterday but not before there had been a major surprise at rain-soaked Acklam Park . |
| 16 | Now there had been a great shortage of messages from heaven for a very long time . |
| 17 | There was a street market here at weekends , and a few days ago there had been a fair to celebrate some local festival . |
| 18 | He retired formally from Harland & Wolff in 1906 , although effectively he had been a sleeping partner for over ten years . |
| 19 | From then on it had been a funny old kind of a day . |
| 20 | ‘ Third , ’ the Doctor said , as Bernice whirled to see an open doorway where only seconds earlier there had been a flat wall , ‘ I imagine those androids would prefer us not to attempt to escape , in the TARDIS or in any other way . |
| 21 | Initially there had been a substantial market for British films in the US , where demand remained for some time ahead of the production levels achieved by American filmmakers . |
| 22 | It described how there had been a fifty percent increase in food poisoning cases in district year and then it went on to say that it , it was largely , it was thought that that increase was largely because of the increased publicity which the council had been given hygiene training , and saying how many people had been trained , and how the Health Committee was being asked to provide more resources so there could more courses even , even more courses in the following year . |
| 23 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 24 | But up to then it had been a right mild winter . |
| 25 | Though indeed he had been a civil servant , Chambers was one of the foremost literary scholars in England . |
| 26 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 27 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 28 | I had been afraid of her at Oxford where she had been a quick , intense , thundery girl who rarely bothered to talk to other women . |
| 29 | This Election provides a stark contrast with the one of 1690 , when there had been a great deal of controversial pamphleteering , and where a significant number of contests had been fought over the issues of the Church and the security of the Protestant Succession . |
| 30 | When Gabriel and she had been a couple they had run into her one day when there had been a freak storm . |