Example sentences of "[noun sg] had been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seat had been Tory since 1970 and had been held since 1974 by Sir Charles , who retained it with a sizeable personal vote . |
| 2 | Perhaps the swank had been right in that one respect when he jeered at Biff 's diligent efforts in the Scriptory … |
| 3 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 4 | It was not until the early sixties that he was able to resume his film career , but his post-blacklist work had been undistinguished by two top-heavy Yul Brynner spectacles , Taras Bulba ( 1962 ) and Flight from Ashiya ( 1964 ) . |
| 5 | The issue had been complicated by unclear statements from the DoH . |
| 6 | Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn . |
| 7 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 8 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 9 | No agreed reform plan had been forthcoming in 1917–18 but it remained an agreed priority of the government to the end , and pledge after pledge was given . |
| 10 | The rural sector had been dependent on external aid to support these people , and was in any case unable to employ all of them . |
| 11 | Just as fate had been unkind in many ways to those Titfords who had stayed in Frome throughout the 18th century , so it had been a firm friend to the descendants of William the Emigrant after his arrival in Kent . |
| 12 | In the two financial years 1987-88 and 1988-89 , the council had been involved in 592 deals amounting to a notional £6,052.5m . |
| 13 | If it released the figures before it would be obvious to everyone that Mr Hyams ' management philosophy had been superior to that of MEPC 's . |
| 14 | It was again noted that he did not deny the wider allegation that other members of the Reagan election campaign had been involved in such a deal . |
| 15 | They have been accused of sledging in the World Cup — as if no team had been guilty of that before . |
| 16 | As noted in an earlier chapter , the Irish republican population had been hyper-sensitive about that body of men with its ruthless reputation . |
| 17 | At Vladimir , Holly had been different from these men . |
| 18 | At the trial of the action in 1979 Reeve J declined to take into account the supervening spinal disease and awarded damages on the basis that the plaintiff had been capable of light work , not on the basis that he had been incapable of work since 1976 in consequence of a disease for which his employers were in no way responsible . |
| 19 | Under the Common Law , proof that the plaintiff had been guilty of contributory negligence , and that he had the ‘ last opportunity ’ of avoiding the accident , entirely deprived him of his remedy . |
| 20 | In fact , as the THES noted at the time , the dispute leading to this crisis had been simmering in relative privacy for some time . |
| 21 | Volume iv was issued in 1908 , volume v in 1912 , and volume vi in 1921 ( by which time the author had been dead for five years ) . |
| 22 | Attempts by the city council to force him from office had proved unsuccessful , and the process had been complicated by frequent changes of mind by Gates over when and whether he was willing to step down . |
| 23 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 24 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 25 | The building society claimed repayment of interest under the provisions of section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981from the three dates on which the payments were made , on the ground that the principal had been repayable on those dates as sums paid pursuant to an unlawful demand . |
| 26 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 27 | Gradually Louisa began to wonder whether her father had been right after all , whether she had been as unwise as he claimed to shut herself away in this sequestered place . |
| 28 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 29 | The potential if the train had been full of toxic chemicals could have been horrific . ’ |
| 30 | Miguel 's voice was suddenly very warm , and Shelley remembered that he and his beautiful young assistant had been close for some time . |