Example sentences of "had been [adj] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dutch might have been willing to see a world without territorial empire , if only it had been possible to keep up a trading system on that basis . |
| 2 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 3 | Konstantin Charsky was a poet like herself , but much better known , and he had been able to gather quite a few western books . |
| 4 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 5 | Even in the sudden rush from the Store the nomes had been able to bring quite a lot of stuff . |
| 6 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 7 | He was a hard worker , but Jane marvelled at how he had been able to build up a business while remaining practically unintelligible . |