Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adv] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caldas had once been a favourite family haunt , she recalled wistfully , and had the local bus service not meandered into every far-flung hamlet on its way and taken forever to make the journey she would have been back long ago . |
| 2 | The first sessions had obviously been a useful learning experience for all concerned . |
| 3 | The situation was different , because the Conservatives had then been the largest party , whereas they were now 26 seats behind the Labour Party . |
| 4 | My first experience of airsports had n't been a good one . |
| 5 | For despite having an open mind in many ways , his attitude to women and their problems had always been the conventional one of the young aristocrat he had once been . |
| 6 | Branson 's living arrangements had always been a moveable feast , a reflection of the lack of boundaries between his work and private life . |
| 7 | The Sunday Times had always been a special paper , particularly in the Harold Evans days , when , with stories like Thalidomide and the Insight coverage of Northern Ireland , it could lay claim to being the greatest in the world . |
| 8 | Ranteallo had already confessed to us that much of the problem of fixing a date for the rites had also been the laborious process of raising money from the banks in Makassar . |
| 9 | And pickled onions had definitely been a bad idea . |
| 10 | Peter Mountfield of TCR Properties , the company which manages the Heal 's building , said the availability of staff restaurant facilities had also been a useful marketing tool to potential tenants . |
| 11 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |