Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The areas in which slavery or serfdom had been of marginal importance or genuinely ‘ uneconomic ’ — e.g. northern and southern Russia or the border states and the south-west in the United States — adjusted readily to its liquidation . |
| 2 | Although reveille had been at 0400 hours , the landing would not be made until first light at 0850 . |
| 3 | They thoroughly deserved a draw last night and , if luck had been on their side , they might even have won the game . |
| 4 | Purchased during that mad shopping trip at Bloomingdales , the minuscule garment in watery shades of blue and green had been by far the most decent item among the swimwear items bought for her by Ross . |
| 5 | The monks ' cells , just visible through the windows of the women 's dormitories , lay 500 yards away , far enough for them to have required a telescope and searchlights if disturbance had been on their minds . |
| 6 | Probably his mother and father her mother and father had been in there anyway . |
| 7 | This , in itself , need not have posed much of a challenge to the conventional wisdom : if unemployment had been at unusually low levels at the time , the acceleration of inflation could have been explained in terms of the simple Phillips curve and contractionary demand management policies could have been implemented . |
| 8 | John Morton was the Darvel blacksmith , as his father and grandfather had been before him . |
| 9 | As my companion informed me , he had held many important posts in Geneva , and was a counsellor , as his father and grandfather had been before him . |
| 10 | And revenge had been in his mind when playing the joke on Music Week . |
| 11 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 12 | Both Father and Mother had been through difficult times financially in their twenties but Father had founded a fine family business in London which flourished and while both of them were wise and sensible about money there was never any lack of it and funds were available for anything that would widen our horizons and education . |
| 13 | She had spent all afternoon trying to ask Nanny more , but Nanny had been in a funny mood , laughing one minute and crying the next , and not making any sense of anything she said . |
| 14 | But whereas Futurism had been to a large extent aimed at and against Paris and Parisian painting , the Germans were content to remain on the receiving end of things and their work , in the pre-war years at least , had little or no influence back on French art . |
| 15 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 16 | Nizan was convinced that the novel in the contemporary period was as significant a genre as tragedy had been in the classical period . " |