Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spanish values had been noble . |
| 2 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 3 | If the lower clergy had been sympathetic to church reform on ‘ Jansenist ’ lines the hierarchy was hostile and , as the liberal attack on church property developed , it was joined by all but a handful of liberal priests . |
| 4 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 5 | The first few months had been sheer bliss . |
| 6 | Whereas his public appearances had been sporadic up to 1955 , and largely prompted by political events , the second half of the decade saw a notable increase in his activities as the opener of factories , electricity generating stations , reservoirs and housing schemes . |
| 7 | For 50 years , English judges had been unwilling to nullify government decisions . |
| 8 | But the past few days had been depressing . |
| 9 | Some dictators had been keen to forge triple alliances including foreign firms ; other had kept them at arms ' length . |
| 10 | How different things had been last spring , for all their difficulties . |
| 11 | Certain British officers had been friendly with Saw , while Military Intelligence had been indicating since May that Saw was planning to seize power . |
| 12 | Speaking about the remark made by Ariane Mnouchkine , a French writer and theatre director , that Euro Disneyland was a ‘ cultural Chernobyl ’ , Mr Eisner said that he and his colleagues were aware that some French intellectuals had been poisonous about the Enchanted Kingdom . |
| 13 | ‘ The Purple Hour , ’ said Raynor softly , and Grainne smiled , and thought that after all the old legends and the old myths had been right . |
| 14 | Five of these six idiopathic patients had been difficult to control on acid inhibitory treatment . |
| 15 | In 1917 a mere fifty-three households had been able to sell off excess grain . |
| 16 | He was educated in Paris , and when he heard that some Americans had been present at today 's ceremonies he expressed a wish to meet you . " |
| 17 | After attending a local nursery school , some children had been able to write their own names . |
| 18 | Now the pains were returning but 4 weeks after Arg Nit LM2 she was able to say that the digestive symptoms had been negligible . |
| 19 | Wulfstan 's Sermon of the Wolf refers to English powerlessness against the enemy as shameful ; Ælfric to the heathen army holding them to scorn and of days when English kings had been strong and theirs the only fleet around . |
| 20 | A possible explanation is that the Celtic tradition remained in these areas longer than the south and west , the people of which with their close Gallic links had been subject to greater Roman influence before the conquest , this region too was where the vast majority of the figured pottery was made . |
| 21 | People within the health and social services had been aware for years of the patients ' accusations , but nothing was done . |
| 22 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
| 23 | The decision to call an election was prompted by the prime minister 's failure to heal a split among his followers over accusations that state-owned companies had been arm-twisted into making contributions to the party . |
| 24 | At officer level , the Cambridge Board through Hickson and Pateman not unreasonably argued that its initiatives in rural areas had been successful ; not least because of the financial support received from LEAs who were prepared to grant-aid provision of liberal adult education by the Board more generously than that provided through the District . |
| 25 | Most Victorian cities had been urban centres since at least the Middle Ages , though of course they had been tiny in comparison with the size they attained in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | Personal opinions had been modern luxuries for the leaders . |
| 27 | The growth of comprehensive schools had been firm but gentle since the 1944 Act and , provided that no abolition of a grammar school was involved , relatively uncontroversial . |
| 28 | In third place Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , who had been leading overnight at two under slipped to a 75 on Sunday to finish two over par , his early rounds had been 70 and 70 . |
| 29 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 30 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |