Example sentences of "had [been] [adj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 2 | The career of Miller had been that of a classic party functionary rising to PUWP central committee secretary and politburo member , whereas Kwasniewski , who came up through the editorship of party youth wing newspapers to become Minister of Youth and Sports from 1985 , had made his name as a pragmatist and advocate of co-operation with Solidarity in the 1989 round table talks . |
| 3 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 4 | He has got off lightly : we learn with mildly comic surprise of mitigating circumstances : he had been good to a consumptive fellow student , and he had saved two children from a blazing house , getting burnt himself while doing so . |
| 5 | Herbie Connors was the local water bailiff who had been involved in a personal battle of wits with Yanto ever since his return home from the war . |
| 6 | The police suspected that Samuel had been involved in a serious armed robbery at a building society in Birmingham . |
| 7 | In particular , Nestlé and Suchard had been involved in a similar takeover battle for the ownership of Cote d'Or , the Belgian chocolate company , during 1987 . |
| 8 | A number of these had been involved in a similar coup attempt in July 1989 when a smaller group of rebels briefly gained control of the radio station . |
| 9 | Then he had spoilt it by saying that his reasons for leaving Australia had been personal , and she had assumed he had been involved in a similar situation to that with Jennifer . |
| 10 | He learned of the death of thousands of British troops who had been involved in a combined operation with the French against Kaiser Bill 's army . |
| 11 | Through his business dealings the victim had been involved in a multimillion pound civil lawsuit . |
| 12 | Since the earliest days of their conversion to Christianity , Greek Christians had been involved in a creative effort to baptise their glorious past and to wed it to the originally semitic Christian experience . |
| 13 | Mr Jowett , who had a shotgun licence and took part in pheasant shooting , had been involved in a bizarre knife attack at his home four months earlier . |
| 14 | The Hamadan clan , like the Jafaars , had been involved in a losing struggle against the Syrian cartel ever since Rifat Assad and Monzer al-Kassar had taken over the Bekaa Valley in 1975 with the help of the Syrian Army . |
| 15 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 16 | The latest studies of the fossil record , however , suggested that many families had been subject to a constant trend towards increasing levels of specialization . |
| 17 | The report added that the Waddington screen controllers involved were ‘ not to undertake screening duties until their competence to do so had been subject to a further check ’ . |
| 18 | This had been close-carpeted in a warm golden colour , but Kate guessed it covered more beautiful old wood floors . |
| 19 | The night had been mild with a blustery wind . |
| 20 | Her eyes had been open in a fixed and vacant stare , and the waxen tinge to her skin had told its own tale . |
| 21 | I can put a point rather more crudely than the Lord put it , but I realise that the present Government find it inconceivable , one day they will be in opposition , but I do wonder if they would have shown quite the same enthusiasm for this solution if it had been forthcoming from a Labour Government . |
| 22 | The mile of shining water between him and the Forest of Dean had been devoid of a single ripple . |
| 23 | From the start , their approach to the matches had been exciting with a dazzling display of flair from the batsmen . |
| 24 | Dr Neil had been busy with a small epidemic of low fever which had fortunately missed Vetch Street , and Matey had decided to do some summer cleaning , spring cleaning having been missed out , due to the deficiencies of Sally-Anne 's predecessor . |
| 25 | Mr Daubney had been busy with a continuous stream of traffic . |
| 26 | Journalist Meredith Oakley , of the Arkansas Gazette in the Clintons ' home state , said : ‘ If America had been ready for a female President she would have run herself . |
| 27 | He was dressed in work clothes — tailored dark grey trousers and a cream shirt — but the latter was open at the neck and he wore no tie , suggesting that he had been ready for a relaxing Friday evening drink . |
| 28 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 29 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 30 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |