Example sentences of "[adj] had [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
| 2 | Gorbachev ordered Chief of Staff Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev to withdraw troops to barracks , although this had already been done . |
| 3 | This had already been explained in Sheffield , by Daniel . |
| 4 | ( In reality this had already been demonstrated by the JustText composition program but not released . ) |
| 5 | In 1880 , this had already been discerned , but most men gave a growing acceptance to democratic institutions because they seemed to provide not a threat to , but a guarantee of , liberal standards . |
| 6 | This had already been established in the White Paper , The control of land use , ( Cmd. 6537 ) in 1944 , with the unequivocal statement : But this matter was part of a wider exercise . |
| 7 | This had already been binned but I binned the offer as well , just in case I ever came close to considering it seriously . |
| 8 | This had already been tried and found to be unsatisfactory with the old Vigilant . |
| 9 | Made at Billingham , this had traditionally been handled by Agricultural Division [ one of the precursor divisions to form C&P ] . |
| 10 | The large Fiat saloon parked in the piazza looked ridiculous with a yellow child 's cot strapped to the roof , but this had seemingly been stipulated by the gang to make it easier for them to identify the car . |
| 11 | This had reportedly been watered down after Russia threatened to veto a proposal to suspend the FRY from all UN bodies , demanding instead that it be merely excluded from the General Assembly . |
| 12 | This had clearly been worrying them both . |
| 13 | This had clearly been modernised . |
| 14 | Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia . |
| 15 | This had previously been organized by the police but had not been seriously updated for years . |
| 16 | In her defence the artiste explained that this had only been caused by the persistent attention paid to her by mosquitoes that night . |
| 17 | Iraqi forces were debarred from using military aircraft , although it subsequently emerged that this had only been made explicit with regard to fixed-wing aircraft rather than helicopters . |
| 18 | This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join . |
| 19 | In the case of Sgt Soles , the Department said that Mrs Marsden 's inquiry had resulted in the discovery that his widow , who had remarried by was now very ill , was entitled to have her widow 's pension reinstated under new legislation and this had now been done . |
| 20 | Its board had planned to do that yesterday but this had now been postponed — a move the SeaCo president regretted . |
| 21 | Since the late eighteenth century , there had developed the ‘ perfectionist doctrine ’ which claimed that ‘ government of the people by the people ’ was most appropriate , but according to Bryce , this had now been shown to be wrong . |
| 22 | He had converted the often illegible manuscript into clear Persian typescript ; this had then been translated into English by a team of Persian scholars in America . |
| 23 | Although this had initially been rejected out of hand by Clasper , he had been left in no doubt that his members would hold their own mass meeting without him if he chose not to call it . |
| 24 | I remembered my original impression that this had all been prepared . |
| 25 | Yet this had long been known : for example , the maxims of La Rochefoucauld , which retain their power to amuse and disturb , established conclusively that many things in human affairs are far from what they seem . |
| 26 | The union had already shown some opposition to aspects of Government policy , but this had always been voiced in a guarded or indirect way in its newspaper . |
| 27 | In the early years this had always been kept small , but in the 1980s the Treasury increased it from the traditional 2 per cent of planned public spending in the 1976–9 period to over 6 per cent in 1990–1 . |
| 28 | This had mainly been achieved by improved standards of recording work done and quality control . |
| 29 | This had hitherto been prevented in a desire to help encourage mobile industries to locate in the less prosperous regions of the north and west . |
| 30 | There was only one candle in place , stuck upright like a pale wax finger , and this had never been lit . |