Example sentences of "had [be] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Janet who found , during the course of his work , that patients suffering from what he termed ‘ neurotic disorders ’ would often have significant gaps in their long-term memories — they had actually managed to block out incidents from long ago which had been particularly painful or excessively distressing . |
| 2 | His reaction to the news had been partly predictable and partly complex and more disturbing . |
| 3 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 4 | All the additional effort to repair wind damage , and coping with the extra demands of old buildings in poor weather , did n't help to relieve the pressures , especially as some of the boys had been rather overexcited and badly behaved . |
| 5 | The images of Führer and Party , which for almost a decade after the ‘ seizure of power ’ had been largely separate and even diametrically opposed , were now starting to blur in public consciousness . |
| 6 | For the first time in her life , perhaps , the Astropath had been psychically blind as well as visually so ; utterly isolated . |
| 7 | Susan Kendrick , expertly wrapping china in newspaper and ankle-deep in shavings from her packing cases , had been briskly informative but hardly more reassuring . |
| 8 | His publishers had been smoothly charming and undoubtedly a little surprised to find their backwoods author a careful , quite business-like man in a town suit , who would not sign anything until he had read the small print several times and understood it thoroughly . |
| 9 | Tony said he had felt happier after discharge from hospital and that his father had been less critical and more supportive during the last few days . |
| 10 | Developments inside Palestinian society in the territories over the same decade had been less obvious but more significant . |
| 11 | The day had been hot ; in fact , the previous week had been very hot and so the roads and streets were paved with ridged flags of mud , hardbaked , but not so hard as to prevent their surfaces being skimmed off into dust which , in some streets of the town , seemed to be floating waist high like a mist rising from water . |
| 12 | She had been very ill and suddenly taken to hospital without Darren 's knowing why . |
| 13 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 14 | And the demand for jam jars had been so great that even salvage dumps and cemeteries had been searched for extra supplies . |
| 15 | Their lives had been so impoverished that even those elementary things had been taken from them . |
| 16 | Frustrating or what — it had been so faint and so brief . |
| 17 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 18 | Elizabeth 's distress had been so evident that even Lydia felt bound to take it seriously . |
| 19 | He had been perfectly coherent and much too bright . |
| 20 | When a blow-over does occur , you will always hear the people concerned state , quite truthfully : ‘ Up to that time the wind had been quite acceptable and then there was this bad gust … |
| 21 | If Carson had been predictably agreeable and obviously interested she would have accepted the lift and that , apart perhaps from the promise of a follow-up lunch some time , would have been the end of it . |
| 22 | Ryan had been as warm and as welcoming as his father . |
| 23 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 24 | By the 1870s heating was done by Bunsen burners rather than furnaces ; and a laboratory which at the beginning of the century had been as good as any was now ‘ a mere makeshift ’ or a ‘ noble relic ’ . |
| 25 | In December 1990 the Syrian government had been as active as ever , encouraging the gathering in Damascus of a ‘ joint action committee ’ of familiar names — Hojjatoleslam Hakim , the Kurdish leaders Barzani and Talabani , and also Brigadier-General Naqib , in Syria since the early 1980s . |
| 26 | The fact that Black Fury had been too controversial and yet too muddled to scoop up the prizes did not mean that it was time for Warner Bros to stop being ‘ sociologically-minded ’ . |
| 27 | Suddenly it came home to me with tremendous force that this was my last chance , the very last of all the countless chances I had thrown away just like this , because I had been too lazy or too proud to exploit them properly . |
| 28 | Poetry had been too long and too harshly divided from prose . ’ |
| 29 | All the time , she had been half listening and even replying to Gazzer as he chatted on about Simon , the police , and Bella . |
| 30 | He had been wildly ambitious and intensely purposeful ; he had been sure of his own worth , and determined to succeed . |