Example sentences of "had [adv] [been] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 2 | Patients randomised to the tablet groups were advised to continue their pre-trial diets — unless they had already been taking a high fibre diet — in which case they were encouraged to reduce their fibre intake during the trial . |
| 3 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 4 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 5 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 6 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 7 | For another it was learning French at evening classes when she had always been considered a complete duffer at languages . |
| 8 | Edward , on the other hand , had always been accorded a mysterious potency : ‘ They do so depend on him at Croxford . ’ |
| 9 | Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works . |
| 10 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 11 | In 1935 , the very same Neville Chamberlain , who ten years earlier had even been considering a contributory earnings-related scheme , could tell the Conservative Party annual conference that better retirement pensions would be prohibitively costly , would release only a paltry number of jobs and would create grave legal and administrative problems in enforcing the retirement condition : ‘ Are you going to create a new penal offence — the offence of doing work ? ’ he asked . |
| 12 | Chaot had reportedly been nursing a damaged rudder stock for some time , but as water was coming into the boat in increasing quantities , Boschmann decided to abandon ship as soon as other yachts on passage to the Caribbean could come to his assistance . |
| 13 | It should be added here that the high clergy hardly recognized that they had actually been exercising a political religious power of a specifically sectarian or monopolistic type . |
| 14 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |