Example sentences of "had [been] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , his car had been unscathed in the wee knock but he felt aggrieved that she had not checked . |
| 2 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 3 | He had been dry for the past twenty years . |
| 4 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 5 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 6 | Mr. Wright added that the committee had been impressed by the prompt action by Teiman . |
| 7 | This group , known as T.E.C.A. , the Teachers ' Economic and Cultural Association Ltd. had been impressed by the strong nationalistic tone of Williams ' book and they wholeheartedly agreed with his sentiments that education of the people should be ‘ part of their democratic privileges and their democratic responsibilities ’ . |
| 8 | Frank confirmed that as a boy visiting relatives in the region there had been many of the old ships still about , so Brian and I decided we 'd go there , then sail down the US coast to the Caribbean , through the Panama Canal and head west to the Revillagigedo Islands which Brian had decided were his . |
| 9 | The original model of the place had been one of an unintrusive liberal Christianity , and the first Principal was Sir Walter Moberly — a don and Vice-Chancellor who came from one of the great dynasties of bishops , scholars , and headmasters ( of Public Schools , of course ) . |
| 10 | The last was Paul Biya who between 1973 and 1979 , as minister responsible for the economy , had been one of the chief architects of Cameroun 's successful development strategy . |
| 11 | Earlier the physical journey of the pilgrimage had been one of the chief disciplines by means of which the Cluniacs had managed to reshape the consciousness of Europe . |
| 12 | Before the final had begun , when Forget had put their chances at about 3–1 against and French president , Phillipe Chatrier believed that they had no more than one in five chance of achieving the prize which had been his ultimate goal from the time that he led the French tennis revolution in 1968 , Forget 's possible vulnerability in moments of such stress had been one of the chief causes for such concern . |
| 13 | The river Vistula had been one of the great European water highways . |
| 14 | Someone had to do it : his regiment had been one of the unlucky ones . |
| 15 | At a press conference on March 15 Gen. Suchinda had made it clear that the neutralization of the state-enterprise labour movement had been one of the prime objectives behind the military takeover . |
| 16 | Sgt. Ashbury , who had been one of the early Gladiator pilots , was posted to 148 Squadron . |
| 17 | He he had been one of the principal Iranian liaisons with Kim Roosevelt and he had helped to organize the demonstrations in support of the Shah . |
| 18 | Beecher , the paterfamilias of the well known family , had been one of the major liberalizing influences in American Puritanism ( despite his rabid anti-Catholic feelings ) and had helped to transform the old High Calvinism into the broader stream of liberal protestantism . |
| 19 | The unification of Germany protected the lifestyle of the Prussian Junkers — indeed , the Junkers ' need to protect themselves and their lifestyle from the disrupting effects of outside economic competition through the creation and extension of a tariff union had been one of the major components in the formation of the German state . |
| 20 | After all , that had been one of the major problems in their marriage . |
| 21 | After she had killed her father , he had been one of the interrogating officers . |
| 22 | She told her brother that he had been one of the lucky ones , blown up by a land-mine , and only lost a toe — not even a big one , she teased . |
| 23 | The process , which had been one of the original aims of Schuman and Monnet , was to culminate in a formal treaty of friendship in 1963 . |
| 24 | Martin had been one of the post-war most-likely-to-succeed Oxbridge brigade . |
| 25 | He had been one of the supporting players of the City , a Harmless Eccentric . |
| 26 | If it had been one of the local men , he explained to Sandison , there would have been no problem , but Maidstone was another matter . |
| 27 | In London she had been one of the founding members of Bit . |
| 28 | Podkrepa had been one of the founding members of the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) now in government . |
| 29 | However , the massive exports which had generated the necessary finances had been one of the main causes of the extreme economic hardship suffered by ordinary Romanians . |
| 30 | The report singled out three recent incidents : a demonstration in Kishinev ( the capital ) on Jan. 8 , when a funeral procession for a Moldavian youth who had died in suspicious circumstances had turned into a rally by up to 10,000 people protesting against Soviet and communist rule , and fights had ensued between rival gangs of Moldavian and Russian youths ; a picket of the district Moldavian CP committee building in the town of Chadyr Lunga by members of the Gagauz minority demanding creation of their own autonomous republic ; and a referendum on Jan. 28 called by the city soviet in Tiraspol , Moldavia 's second largest city , in which the predominantly Russian population had voted overwhelmingly ( over 96 per cent of a 92 per cent poll ) to declare greater autonomy for the Tiraspol district and to support the possible declaration of Tiraspol and neighbouring Russian-populated towns as an autonomous republic ( Tiraspol had been one of the main centres of strikes by Moldavia 's Russian and Ukrainian population in August-September 1989 against greater Moldavian language rights — see pp. 36855 ; 36898 ) . |