Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] [prep] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , the passages had been constructed with precisely this intention . |
| 2 | He guessed that Turakina had been engaged in yet another attempt to negotiate a match on his behalf , and wondered which family had been involved . |
| 3 | It was a neat description by a commander who had been forewarned of just this certainty . |
| 4 | The new excise rate proposals replaced the compulsory uniform rates which it had originally proposed in 1987 , but which had been rejected by nearly all member countries . |
| 5 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 6 | It took only a couple of sessions of counselling ( and production of documentary evidence ! ) to persuade Clive that a decline in frequency of intercourse following early days of marriage is normal , that the frequency of intercourse between him and Maureen was about the " national average " and that he had been misled about both this and his own physical normality . |
| 7 | The goals of the first transition phase , the first series of internal tariff reductions and measures designed to reduce the differences in the external tariffs of the Six , had been achieved without too much hardship or dispute , and the Commission was looking forward with confidence to shortening the planned duration of the second transition phase . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that the savage beating of King , who was black , had been filmed by an onlooker , the four officers had been acquitted on almost all state charges by a predominantly white jury [ see p. 38856 ] . |
| 9 | Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances . |
| 10 | Hurrying away on her next mission , Nicandra felt quietly elated because the little act of kindness in donating her scone had been accepted with so much pleasure and a thoughtful reservation for breakfast . |
| 11 | It had been prepared for quite some time and the brunt of it was against the Serbs , ’ said Col Jovanovic . |
| 12 | Nora had been prepared for almost any response from John , except the one she got — or thought she had got . |
| 13 | The microlight had been flying for nearly half an hour when it crashed into a field . |
| 14 | Also , a hotel room would remind her of that first night they had spent together ; what happened then had been repeated by now many times . |
| 15 | At one time so many people from the area were hanged at Newgate it had been nicknamed Jack Ketch 's Warren , and according to Paddy it had been known for as many as forty constables to march down with cutlasses to control disturbances . |
| 16 | It was also stated that a ‘ scam ’ had been running for quite some time prior to the defendants ' involvement . |
| 17 | What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out . |
| 18 | The units had been used by only half the boards surveyed , area sessions had been attended by less than one-third . |
| 19 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | During the modernist crisis , no area of scholarly research had been subjected to as much intellectual oppression as the study of the Scriptures . |
| 21 | The manuscript on which Ernest Cotchin had been working for so many years was unfinished and unrevised when he died in September 1988 . |
| 22 | Oh it had been going for quite some time , I do n't know really when they would start . |
| 23 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
| 24 | Fleury had no time to draw his final weapon , the two-bladed Indian dagger , for his adversary , it turned out , was no less impressively armed than he was himself and he was already flourishing a spare sabre which he had been carrying for just such an emergency . |
| 25 | The traditional British verve for raiding had been restored after too many years under the shadow of the World War I failures at Gallipoli . |
| 26 | I was still on the shores of the same great sea and yet had been transported into quite another world , a place on the edge of a China which seemed to have nothing in common with those islanders so forgotten and so far away . |