Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 2 | By the time Callaghan took over , the average interval had been increased to a little over two years . |
| 3 | A World Bank spokesman responded to the leak by denying that the memo in any way represented Bank policy , and adding that it had been written in a deliberately ironic tone in order to provoke internal debate within the organization . |
| 4 | Consider the case where there are two ‘ players ’ , Lilliput and Blefuscu ( who , according to Jonathan Swift , ‘ had been engaged in a most obstinate war for six and thirty moons Past ’ ) . |
| 5 | One of the Quorn had been discovered in a very loose-box with a girl from the Cotswold and dropped from his team . |
| 6 | He was entitled to his moment of pride ; shooting had gone well on the set of The Viking — astonishingly well considering it had been done on a ludicrously small budget and with television crews much more accustomed to slapstick children 's shows than gritty drama . |
| 7 | After their visit custodians noticed that a sketchbook ‘ had been mutilated in a very clumsy manner , by the abstraction of several leaves containing an unknown number of sketches or drawings . ’ |
| 8 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know how much longer we can hope to keep this a clandestine relationship , ’ Luke said sardonically one Friday night when the immediate edge of the savage hunger for each other that built up during their partings had been soothed by a wildly abandoned reunion . |
| 10 | There were rumours the small boat had been hit by a much larger vessel . |
| 11 | It had been made by a galactically known artist — an ancient , smelly and mostly blind human living on a renovated asteroid near the Home System where Old Earth still spins . |
| 12 | Everybody 's attention was on the centre of the room , where the IMC logo had been replaced with a densely written virtual document . |
| 13 | Like Alciston and most other Sussex parishes it seems to have had a fairly prosperous time until the mid-fourteenth century ; the early over-large tax demands of the Norman overlords had been replaced by a much more balanced local appreciation of the revenue possibilities . |
| 14 | Mr Goldring said Miss Lowe had been injected with a very large amount of insulin . |
| 15 | On 19 July Roberts and Cross wrote to Dr John Lawrence at SWWA suggesting that the public had been exposed to a more serious hazard than had been admitted : they were told that they could meet Lawrence but he would give them no information . |
| 16 | The authorities reported on Jan. 11 that Francis Ona , the leader of the Bougainville rebels , had been killed by a more militant faction of the BRA and had been succeeded by Sam Kauona , an explosives expert trained by the Australian Army . |
| 17 | The prospects would have been even brighter if only Russia had been blessed with a less benighted tsar . |
| 18 | The movies , though , had been born into a far more complex and certainly a more highly politicized era than the earlier fictional forms and many familiar themes , especially those dealing with the problems of wealth or with sudden reversals of financial fortune , would have to be treated more sensitively . |
| 19 | From mid-day the general public were admitted to the site for the first time , and although publicity had been kept to a relatively low key , several hundred visitors attended . |
| 20 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 21 | In fact , to my eyes , the appearance of informality had been taken to a faintly ludicrous degree . |
| 22 | On being sued by the plaintiffs for breach of the implied duty of confidentiality , the defendant claimed that he had made all his calculations in designing the heater from information which had been published in a readily obtainable leaflet . |
| 23 | What had really occurred was that the Hollywood style had been updated and a large number of films had been located in a more contemporary urban setting . |
| 24 | The 1984 general election [ see pp. 33327-28 ] had been dominated by a hastily assembled NNP coalition , from which the current NDC , TNP and NNP originated . |
| 25 | As a child , she had been dominated by a slightly older brother . |
| 26 | The archaeological evidence suggests that silver first came into use on a substantial scale during the third millennium B.C. It was not until metallurgy had been carried to a relatively advanced level of sophistication that the production of silver in any quantity became practicable . |
| 27 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 28 | A few years earlier the reddish-yellow Sheeted Somerset , which probably became extinct before 1890 , had been described as a mainly polled breed remarkable for nothing except its coat pattern : the belted pattern became popular among those who liked decorative livestock in their parks . |
| 29 | This , incidentally , throws some doubt on the efficacy In addition to the aggradation of the lower reaches of river valleys , the Post-glacial rise of sea level caused widespread aggradation of any lowlands which had been eroded to a sufficiently low level . |
| 30 | He said that capping levels had been set at a devastatingly harsh level and fairness was completely absent from the settlement . |