Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , Axis governments anticipated a Pacific war that had been studied by only a few individuals in the Allies ' interest . |
| 2 | The most dramatic of these increases in percentage terms are , not surprisingly , to be found where the earlier payment was small , as at Lavenham , Totnes and Tiverton , but even major centres such as Norwich and Coventry , which had been assessed at quite a high level in 1334 , showed a percentage increase above the national average . |
| 3 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 4 | By the time of Fritz and Hitzig 's work it had been known for nearly a century that electrical stimulation of nervous tissue would produce movements . |
| 5 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 6 | Linda Evangelista was brilliantly marketed but there was never quite the attention until she had been established for quite a long time . ’ |
| 7 | His people , the Navaho , had been waiting for nearly a hundred and fifty years . |
| 8 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember a border collie that had been stolen from outside a shop where he 'd been tied . |
| 10 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 11 | Beatrice Webb recorded that she had been told by both a working class male school attendance officer and by the female manager of a block of ‘ model dwellings ’ that working class women were not able to talk to their husbands , having little in their heads but household details . |
| 12 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |