Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time he 'd dived off it , the coral heads had been awash . |
| 2 | During much of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti 's seventh administration , formed in April 1991 [ see p. 38157 ] , the four coalition parties had been conscious of the approaching election and the government had progressively lost cohesion . |
| 3 | Air Force helicopters had been involved in relief flights for Kurds in northern Iraq , and medical units were operating with UN forces in Cambodia . |
| 4 | The regulations governing the investigation of aircraft accidents had been unchanged since 1969 . |
| 5 | On July 7 protesters had claimed in Trinidad , the capital of Beni , that the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) and the local anti-drug Umopar police had been guilty of abuses against the local population . |
| 6 | Faecal occult blood testing was not used as an entry criteria nor was its usefulness assessed during this study as the investigations to locate a possible source of bleeding would have been pursued even if faecal occult blood tests had been negative . |
| 7 | The snows in Wales had lain long , and the spring rains had been heavy and protracted ; the Comer drank , and grew quietly mad . |
| 8 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 9 | Most of the UDC leaders had been unimpressed from the outset . |
| 10 | The Council effectively recognized that in a number of important matters Protestants had been right and Catholics wrong . |
| 11 | Two days earlier , at the 168th and last general congregation , 2,392 Council fathers had been present . |
| 12 | The main charges relate to the creation of a false market in Blue Arrow shares between mid-1987 and January 1988 , by giving a wrong impression that an £837million rights issue and placing of Blue Arrow shares had been successful . |
| 13 | All the London West Indians and Bradford Asians , and some of the London Asians , in the group discussions had been involved in a ‘ partner ’ system ( Appendix III , section 3 ) . |
| 14 | Blood lead concentrations had been highest at age two , but had now fallen by over 40% . |
| 15 | No thorough reconnaissance of the landing sites had been possible and maps had largely been taken from tourist guide books . |
| 16 | It expressed concern , however , that UN bodies had been unable to carry out measures mandated for the 1988-89 biennium due to lack of funds . |
| 17 | Last year the London evening newspapers had been able several times to trot out their favourite banner headline . |
| 18 | Judge Carlos Cerda from the Santiago Appeals Court was investigating the disappearance of several leading Communists and Valenzuela 's testimony was the first solid proof that the security forces had been involved in kidnapping . |
| 19 | Following persistent pressure on the government from the United States embassy , President Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo admitted in early September that there was a " possibility " that elements of the security forces had been involved in the murder of US citizen Michael Devine on June 8 . |
| 20 | He had not quite completed the required three years out of four , but because his examination results had been good , the Senatus stretched a point , and we both got leave to come to Edinburgh for the January 1944 graduation . |
| 21 | Caro had been so delighted by the job ( spotted by Sue , an advert in the local paper ) that she could feel no sympathy for her mother 's whinings , and the Sunday visits had been stiff with hostile silences . |
| 22 | Up to the mid-1960s , inflation rates had been low in the international economy due to two major factors . |
| 23 | The by-elections were held in the mainly Maronite Christian area of Kesrouan where a Christian boycott of the August-September elections had been complete . |
| 24 | For some unfathomable reason the Haute Police had been displeased , pointing out that his orders had simply been to keep the men under observation and report on their activities . |
| 25 | The public-sector and service industries had been unable to give the required 10 days ' notice for participation , but 10,000,000 people employed in other sectors took part . |
| 26 | Mgr Ernest Kombo , chairman of the Higher Council of the Republic ( CSR — the transitional legislature ) , complained in a television appearance that a network of election saboteurs had been active . |
| 27 | that the LEA guidelines had been inadequate ; |
| 28 | By 1926 new and much more powerful express passenger and freight locomotive designs had been prepared to his directions and , whilst these were nullified by opposition within a divided management structure , in 1927 the Royal Scot express locomotives were introduced for principal main-line services . |
| 29 | This enquiry found that the airship trials had been unsatisfactory and in their final report they stated that ‘ … no Government department , high official or group of individuals was held to be responsible ’ . |
| 30 | Ernest Mario , chief executive , apologised if previous policy statements had been confusing . |