Example sentences of "[adj] had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While William III had been occupied in Ireland the French had been active in the Channel . |
| 2 | Thanks to the cooperation of the Austrians in Flanders , the French had been able to extend the embarkation area and the main assault would now be delivered second , not first . |
| 3 | There has also been a proposal to increase the term of copyright to the life of the author plus 70 years , although this had been subject to some controversy within the EC . |
| 4 | She saw then that saying this had been unpardonable , but the odd thing was that he did pardon her , and laughed , and quietly fished some of the soggy pills out of the sink in case he fancied one later after all . |
| 5 | This had been close-carpeted in a warm golden colour , but Kate guessed it covered more beautiful old wood floors . |
| 6 | If this had been ordinary civil litigation I would have agreed . |
| 7 | A kind of feudal system developed , but this had been present in much of rural Britain throughout the Roman period . |
| 8 | This had been predictable ; and the opposition increased rapidly in the succeeding days . |
| 9 | This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book . |
| 10 | Not that this had been easy . |
| 11 | This had been due to lower earnings in Wales and lower employment opportunity , said Mr MacKay . |
| 12 | ( The French population tended to shift to the towns much more slowly ; we are told the rate was about 3 per cent per decade down to 1911 , and this had been true for a century . ) |
| 13 | The British view of developments in Korea , upon which Britain was rarely approached by the United States — and this had been true since the Yalta conference — was that American policy was blundering and General Hodge inept . |
| 14 | This had been forthcoming , but the Executive Council of the Shipping Federation had been unable to entertain the proposal from an organisation to which , it claimed , not more than one per cent of seamen belonged . |
| 15 | The study revealed that growth of Asian businesses was confined to few areas and , although this had been rapid during the 1970s , it had been declining recently . |
| 16 | This had been obvious to Henry Mayhew in his vivid survey of London Labour and the London poor in 1856 . |
| 17 | This had been evident not merely among adherents of the separatist Parti Québecois , but also within the governing Liberal Party , headed by provincial Premier Robert Bourassa . |
| 18 | This had been ideal for Ewan 's purposes . |
| 19 | During Elizabeth 's reign the English had been concerned , as Hakluyt explained , with trade and with opening up new lines of commerce . |
| 20 | The arrival of the British had been impressive : on 24 December 1807 a squadron had anchored in Funchal under the command of Admiral Samuel Hood and consisted of four ships of the line , four frigates and sixteen ships for transporting troops , carrying two regiments of infantry and two companies of artillery . |
| 21 | On Dec. 26 a joint session of the Soviet of the Republics and the Soviet of the Union issued a declaration on their own abolition ; a meeting of Dec. 12 had been inquorate , boycotted by Russian , Byelarussian and Ukrainian deputies . |
| 22 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |
| 23 | Setting him up so he 'd look foolish had been ridiculous . |
| 24 | Many sales had been left with high unsold percentages over the previous two weeks , though some had been successful . |
| 25 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 26 | Some had been part-filled with coloured wax . |
| 27 | Some had been hostile but others were quite friendly . |
| 28 | One patient 's leg ulcer ‘ suddenly improved dramatically due to improved psychological state ’ ; another had been uncooperative until answering the questionnaire , which had engendered interest , altering the patient 's attitude and enabling effective treatment to commence . |
| 29 | His views on Ethiopia and Spain in 1935–6 had been misguided , many would say ; but it is a question whether fascism , in his own understanding of the matter , ever entered into it , though Christianity decidedly did . |
| 30 | Eventually , Sabine had been glad to escape altogether to university , where she 'd read Modern Languages . |