Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lambing had begun and the sheep 's tousled fleece had been shorn to a jagged grey stubble . |
| 2 | Once a three-way division had been agreed in principle , each of the three brothers spent the rest of the summer in consolidating his position where it seemed weakest . |
| 3 | The retired baker had been interviewed in the course of a tedious house-to-house enquiry and now it was a question of whether or not to believe the old man . |
| 4 | But because so much money and technical faith had been invested in the project no one thought to check the information elsewhere or suspect that the system might be fallible . |
| 5 | Anti-papalism was also by now endemic , and a strong link had been forged in people 's minds between Protestantism and English nationalism . |
| 6 | Ministers ostensibly believed that economic progress had been limited by control , regulation and over-taxation . |
| 7 | Decision : the criteria for the imposition of an indeterminate sentence had been considered in many cases , in particular Hodgson ( 1968 ) 52 Cr.App.R. 113 , Pither ( 1979 ) 1 Cr.App.R . |
| 8 | Their long carrot-coloured hair had been fought into plaits while the remainder stuck out in frizzy uncontrollable waves . |
| 9 | They were the result of catholic — nationalist success in establishing a separate state , so separate that the protestant tradition as a political force had been excised from the thinking of the entire catholic grouping in the South , from church to state to popular consciousness . |
| 10 | Engels believed that the ‘ callous , narrow-minded and conceited ’ Junkers had learned from the French Revolution that the system they maintained was doomed , but in reality the Junkers crushed the rising and insisted on ‘ service ’ until an agricultural review had been conducted in 1865 — after which they abandoned serfdom with great reluctance . |
| 11 | By the 1970s , all of the familiar themes associated with the postwar new-critical programme had been appropriated by the new right and the humanistic sense that English departments might play a central and autonomous role in the transformation of the general " quality of life " in society had all but collapsed . |
| 12 | For the past five years , the prestigious trophy had been awarded through the voting of FlyPast readers . |
| 13 | All Kate 's previous sexual experience had been limited to clumsy caresses which she 'd had no difficulty in resisting . |
| 14 | She tensed ; as if some buried defence had been touched by this ultimate surrender , some distant alarm bell sounded . |
| 15 | It was also at Powell 's suggestion that an old cinema had been acquired in Victoria , and turned , at considerable expense , into a nightclub-cum-concert hall , modelled on the Bottom Line Club in New York . |
| 16 | I was six and a half years the , the minister of Whalsay and Skerries where the first er centre h ha has been built and there was rejoicing in that community that the that social responsibility had been invited by the council to join in this work . |
| 17 | Martinho 's resignation was seen as representing the development of a long-term crisis within a party which had failed to find a suitable replacement for its original leader and whose popular support had been reduced to below 5 per cent of the vote . |
| 18 | With British and German encouragement a French protectorate had been established over Tunis ( Treaty of Bardo , 12 May 1881 ) . |
| 19 | Saudi Arabian support for a negotiated settlement had been confirmed by the UN Secretary-General , Javier Péréz de Cuéllar , in Jeddah on Sept. 14 . |
| 20 | The funeral was delayed for three hours after members of Katherine 's family complained that the wrong grave had been opened for the ceremony . |
| 21 | A small brown tent had been erected near the bamboo clump , partly on grass , partly on earth , with one flap rolled back and neatly tied . |
| 22 | When asked in 1983 to conduct a similar investigation of the purported Hitler diaries of 1932 and 1935 , Grant found that high grade waste paper containing an optical brightening agent had been used in the pulp and these were not in use at the alleged time . |
| 23 | Yet essentially Whigs agreed that the hereditary succession had been broken by the Glorious Revolution and that henceforth the monarch had a Parliamentary title to the throne . |
| 24 | A broken key had been replaced by one newly cut , and it was triple-strung with new gut strings . |
| 25 | A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own . |
| 26 | The right to be relieved in one 's parish , perhaps as much as aversion to the workhouse as an institution , lay behind riots in Suffolk in 1765 where a practice of building large workhouses to serve several parishes had been developing since a private enabling statute had been obtained in 1756 . |
| 27 | But the very thoroughness with which British industry had been converted to war work , the degree to which overseas investment had been sold to pay for the war effort , and the war-weariness accumulated over six years of privation created a twin dilemma : public expectations of a better post-war world had increased in reverse proportion to the capacity of the British economy to finance it . |
| 28 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 29 | Hitherto , foreign investment had been encouraged through the establishment of joint ventures , 3,000 of which were now in existence . |
| 30 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |