Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] had been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By daylight it had been a sculptured shaft fluted with runnels of light and darkness , withdrawing stage by stage in charmed proportion , shedding weight and gaining impetus as it soared . |
| 2 | The agreement did not provide for a specific " quota of power " for the FMLN , an issue which had been a major sticking-point in negotiations . |
| 3 | The conference ( a triennial meeting scheduled between NAM summits ) took place in the context of the effective ending of the " Cold War " , the issue which had been the immediate stimulus for the original formation of the Non-aligned Movement in 1961 . |
| 4 | After a hurried cup of tea at my house we were on our way to do a climb which had been a longstanding ambition of Norman 's — Via Media on Craig Aderyn , probably the best medium-grade slab pitch in Snowdonia . |
| 5 | Although during the winter there had been no running water this had been restored at least in the centre of the town . |
| 6 | He had also asked Henry Victor Dyson , a lecturer at Reading University who had been an exact contemporary of Tolkien 's as an undergraduate at Exeter College . |
| 7 | Man-made fibres and plastic sheeting have long since replaced the porous cambric or fine cotton linen which had been the standard material for sails over seven decades . |
| 8 | The funeral itself had been a grotesque manifestation of Mrs Maugham 's opinions . |
| 9 | Throughout the inter-war period there had been no effective plan , merely Unwin 's work and sporadic activity in the preparation of statutory planning schemes by the London boroughs . |
| 10 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 11 | Perhaps the development of most interest to us in 1854 was that on an American initiative there had been an international conference at Brussels on shortening ship 's passages by producing better charts of winds and currents . |
| 12 | It transpired that during the war he had been a medical officer in the German Wehrmacht fighting on the Eastern Front . |
| 13 | During the War he had been an auxiliary coastguard . |
| 14 | During the war it had been a dangerous neighbour , but no bomb had fallen on it , although fire-bombs had spattered all over Mouncy Street and Decimus Street . |
| 15 | Despite the peaceful outcome it had been a major operation . |
| 16 | It contained a note from Dermot Kinane , an ex-jockey who had been a close friend of the family in Ireland . |
| 17 | When she had asked his name there had been a slight , but noticeable , hesitation before he 'd answered . |
| 18 | Before transferring to the Egyptian Service he had been a Regular Army officer in India and at times his military background reasserted itself . |
| 19 | On their walk back it had been the dark shadows she 'd found unnerving . |
| 20 | In addition there had been a positive international response , including a US$400,000,000 World Bank emergency loan , to the June earthquake [ see pp. 37521-22 ] . |
| 21 | But he was in a peer mechanism which had been a longstanding thing with trade unionism management for many years , with no replacement . |
| 22 | For a start she had been the only woman , and her colleagues had found it strange that she should be working with them . |
| 23 | Teversham 's terms for pretty women had been taken wholesale from his father who had been a young airman in World War II . |
| 24 | Was it not his father who had been the prime agent in advocating the educational route to success ? |
| 25 | From the start there had been a strong streak of elitism in their outlook . |
| 26 | Jock laughingly informed me that when he had arrived in the area there had been a short quiet spell . |
| 27 | For a month there had been a damaging public dispute between Mr Heseltine , who backed a European Consortium bid to link with Westland , the British helicopter company , and Mr Brittan , the Trade and Industry minister , who favoured an American bid . |
| 28 | That morning there had been a renewed run on the Bank , and he asked his colleagues to share with him the burdens both of office and self-sacrifice . |
| 29 | But a shop assistant in the elite government village where Mr Krenz also lived , told local television he had been a regular customer in the supermarket supplying top officials with luxury goods . |
| 30 | But a shop assistant in the elite government village where Mr Krenz also lived , told local television he had been a regular customer in the supermarket supplying top officials with luxury goods . |