Example sentences of "[adj] had [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BK told us this had been base camp for early attempts on Kanchenjunga from the south . |
| 2 | In the Reformation this had been North-South between Protestants and Catholics . |
| 3 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 4 | Traditionally the British had been Champagne 's most lucrative customers — after the drink had been popularised in society by the Marlboroughs and the Prince of Wales in the last half of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 6 | Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser . |
| 7 | The sons of George III had been prodigal breeders , had n't they ? |
| 8 | The Romanian Parliament had issued objections on Nov. 28 to the referendum 's being held in those Ukrainian territories which between 1918 and 1940 had been part of Romania , namely Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia , but which had been ceded to Ukraine under the terms of the Molotov-Ribentropp pact . |
| 9 | All had been part of the Reagan-Bush administration which illegally sold arms to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held in Lebanon . |
| 10 | Up to now all had been surmise and suspicion . |
| 11 | The fifty pence went unclaimed and all had been witness to the head 's control of events . |
| 12 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 13 | Her hands had trembled as they tried to re-fill Lady West 's cup and the latter had been quack to press home her advantage . |
| 14 | Of the other three , one had been revenge , one an escapade , and one half serious , but all had now merged into a sentimental distance , an affectionate presence . |
| 15 | Of these 57 authorities , 32 had been Partnership or Programme councils , and the remainder had a lower status either as Other Designated Districts or benefited from the traditional Urban Programme from which very many councils had gained some , often limited resources . |
| 16 | It was set up five years ago as a new shop to combine the Art Bookshop and the Poster Gallery , which prior to that had been part of the Paperback Bookshop . |
| 17 | Instead of sending back to Britain for a , a part , they took it off an old tank you see , and on that had been part was still all right you see , but the tank was er useless but there would maybe be a bit of the track alright , so we cannibalized them . |
| 18 | That had been part of the learning process . |
| 19 | That had been recognition , all right ! |
| 20 | 2109 and 2113 had been war casualties and written off , five standard Felthams scrapped at Purley depôt as already described and in November 1950 , while the move was in progress , Nos. 2144 and 2162 caught fire and were burned out . |
| 21 | However , the only manifestations of hostility up until October 1959 had been pressure on its European allies not to supply Cuba with weapons ( in mid-October Washington had blocked the sale of British jet fighters to Cuba ) . |
| 22 | The confident mood of the left in the 1960s had been part of a sudden wider upsurge in creativity concentrated on the arts , pop music , fashion , ‘ lifestyle ’ and sexual attitudes . |
| 23 | Elwin Wright , who up until 1937 had been secretary of a respectable Anglo-German Fellowship , advocated the shooting of Jews , called Neville Chamberlain a liar and a traitor and stated that Parliament was a ‘ blackmailing corrupt body of bastards . ’ |
| 24 | The two had been part of the Rentokil team on ‘ operation cleanout ’ . |
| 25 | Both had been part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific , established in 1947 , until this was terminated for both the FSM and Marshall Islands in December 1990 [ see p. 37920 ] . |