Example sentences of "had been [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 2 | The dock was fenced off , but not the way it had been as a real dock , with real cargoes to steal . |
| 3 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 4 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 5 | Climate Changer is an intriguing choice , since its business to date has been developing applications for the air-conditioning industry — its previous link to OCT had been as a large user of the machines . |
| 6 | When Scarlet attempted to disagree , albeit feebly , Constance cited the scandals in the City and pointed out that the gap between the highest- and the lowest-paid was greater now than it had been since the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | In his later career he was hard-working and respected , especially by those in whose interests he was acting , but not innovative , as he had been during the heroic period of sanitary reform . |
| 8 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 9 | Enjoying widespread support in the constituencies , the supporters of the tariff threatened to become a danger to Baldwin 's leadership — as they had been during the 1929–31 period . |
| 10 | The fact that they have been invited shows me how stone-cold almost sure Conrad Black had been of a Tory victory . |
| 11 | Auntie 's exceptional eyesight had been of no particular help to her in her job : she was a filing-clerk in a block of offices , for ever sorting other people 's dull letters and dull memoranda . |
| 12 | Rachel Esthart , a famous actress of her day , and a patron of Stella Pinero 's just as the then Chief Inspector Dander had been of the young Coffin , had left her Greenwich house to Stella . |
| 13 | He asked for prayer about the journey to Jerusalem , knowing the tensions that existed between the Christians who had been of the Jewish faith , and those who were converted Gentiles . |
| 14 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 15 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 16 | The Thracians and Illyrians had been to a great extent Hellenised during the fourth century BC , when the Macedonian empire of Philip and Alexander flourished . |
| 17 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 18 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
| 19 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |
| 20 | Princess Diana had been to a sumptuous EC dinner of salmon and pheasant on the Royal Yacht Britannia . |
| 21 | But whereas Futurism had been to a large extent aimed at and against Paris and Parisian painting , the Germans were content to remain on the receiving end of things and their work , in the pre-war years at least , had little or no influence back on French art . |
| 22 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 23 | It had been midday Monday before she mentioned , in conversation with one of her regular customers , that MacQuillan had been to the Black Friar . |
| 24 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 25 | The old imperial line of communication through the Mediterranean , Suez Canal , Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the Far East and the Antipodes would be just as important to the Commonwealth as it had been to the colonial Empire . |
| 26 | More sensitive than their counterparts at the beginning of the decade had been to the technical qualities of Hollywood films , the critics of the time constantly drew attention to the gap between the aspirations and the achievements of British films . |
| 27 | I was almost certain that she had been to the British Museum no more recently than I had myself . |
| 28 | Five years ago people might have thought her greatest contribution had been to the British fashion industry . |
| 29 | When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition . |
| 30 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |