Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Future events were to prove just how right Stirling had been in making the latter observations and how his basic principles were to be constantly watered down by interference from outside bodies trying to get their hands on the SAS Regiment , which achieved its greatest successes when left to its own devices . |
| 2 | The burden of Russia 's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War . |
| 3 | It reminded me how quiet my rocky tooth had been for at least a week or two now … |
| 4 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 5 | In response to Air Ministry Specification R14/24 calling for a large , long-range flying-boat , Blackburn Aircraft ventured into this field for the first time in 1924 with their RB.1 Iris ( Blackburn 's previous flying-boat experience had been with the diminutive N.1B and Pellet single-seat designs ) . |
| 6 | His French accent had been through the grinder in the New World , so that he sounded like a gangster in a B movie . |
| 7 | Most of his full-scale skirmishes had been in NoGos or Urban Blight areas . |
| 8 | The training of the vernacular clergy had been in the hands of Arthur Dilworth , the first time that a missionary had been completely set aside for this important task . |
| 9 | The talks between Electronic Data Systems Corp and British Telecommunications Plc about a possible alliance have cooled , the Wall Street Journal believes : rather surprisingly , the paper says that British Telecom had been considering buying 25% of General Motors Corp 's Class E shares , which simply pay dividends tied to the computer services subsidiary 's performance ; it had been assumed that British Telecom would not be interested in holding a significant minority interest in an automaker just to cement an alliance with one of its subsidiaries . |
| 10 | Although railed tramways had been in use in various parts of the country from the middle of the 18th century , generally in connection with coal mines , the first true railway in Scotland was the line from Kilmarnock to Troon . |
| 11 | Elizabeth Schwarzkopf was another " must " even though the ticket cost a " phenomenal amount " to the girl whose own first public appearance had been in a best dress made from the contents of the poor box . |
| 12 | The conciliation staff did a bit of homework , and found out how fond Swindown had been over the years for concealing motion and valve gear between the frames , which did not arouse enthusiasm amongst the more portly fitters , who had plenty of experience of these delights with the collective works of F.W. Webb and other C.M.E. 's designs . |
| 13 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
| 14 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman had been in earlier , he would have heard the hon. Member for Harrow , East ( Mr. Dykes ) saying that last week he had attended a debate on this subject in the Bundestag . |
| 16 | Quite a lot of top managers had been in the agency business . |
| 17 | And why not ? — the British Army had been in Osnabrück since 1945 . |
| 18 | The old man had been with her in the shop that morning , the same as ever , gossiping about the business , about the vagaries of their customers , the oddities of town councillors and the perverseness of families — all with a humour that was wickedly spiced . |
| 19 | I wished our teenage children had been with us , they would have revelled in all the water sports , in the bay . |
| 20 | All her brave effort had been for nothing . |
| 21 | English mathematics had been in a contemptible state for so long that one could hardly have expected a solution to such an important problem to come from that quarter . |
| 22 | But most of the English fleet had been on Parliament 's side during the Civil War , and in 1650 the Republic decided it was strong enough to impose an embargo on trade and send out an expedition to make Virginia and the West Indian islands acknowledge its authority . |
| 23 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 24 | The first foreign visit had been to the Pyrenees in 1952 — a fortnight for £10 : an age and a world away from today . |
| 25 | Michael Barnes was forty-five , an Oxford-educated barrister who specialized in planning law and whose main involvement in major public inquiries had been on behalf of the government over the proposed Stansted Airport . |
| 26 | Mr. Chapman 's last entry in the journal noted that at 8.45 a.m. a ten-year-old boy had been in the sick ward for three days but had been taken much worse . |
| 27 | And it dawned upon him suddenly how right Hugh had been in saying that he , Cadfael , spoke by instinct of this hollow reliquary , as good as empty , as though it truly contained the wonder whose name it bore . |
| 28 | Tests showed the 25mm-long insect had been in the pickle for some time and environmental health officers inspected the premises . |
| 29 | The worst peasant uprisings in the Civil War had been against German expeditions in search of food supplies . |
| 30 | The offending blob had been on the left side of the X-ray as I had looked at it , and I had assumed that it was my left lung that was affected . |