Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been [vb pp] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 2 | Only very slowly did intellectuals concede that the movies had been shaped as much by politics as by the showmen . |
| 3 | The only truly representative delegation was that of the United States whose five delegates had been chosen earlier that year at a convention in Cincinnati . |
| 4 | But new safety procedures had been introduced so such an event could never happen again . |
| 5 | Their only concern was that , in the darkness , one , or more , of the ropes had been loosened too much and it would be noticed when they emerged from the back of the van . |
| 6 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |