Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . |
| 2 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 3 | He linked the freedom of the foreign-owned press in Africa to the general principle of press freedom , but remarked that its effects had been far from encouraging : the press had done things that he personally was very unhappy about . |
| 4 | Hoomey thought it very weird , and longed to discuss it with somebody , but dare n't , not even to ask Gary if Nails had been away at night . |
| 5 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 6 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 7 | During the year the Nikkei Average index had failed to rise above the 26,000 mark , compared with some 39,000 at the end of 1989 , and operating revenues had been down by 23 per cent during the six months to September . |
| 8 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 10 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 11 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 12 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |
| 13 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 14 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 15 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 16 | Only two of the masters had been there before the war . |
| 17 | The Masters had been out to dinner and were well mellowed , wide awake and disposed to chat , but sitting in their quarry-tiled kitchen-diner , with thousands of pounds ' worth of elegant cabinet work and expensive machinery around him , McLeish managed to extract a coherent story . |
| 18 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |
| 19 | Ever since 1983 the general mood in the territories had been consistently against Jordanian representation of the Palestinians , even as part of a joint team . |
| 20 | Others , on some of the more northerly islands , away from the emotion and strength of feeling in South Ronaldsay , were still murmuring that ‘ there 's no smoke without fire ’ and speculating on what the parents of the nine children had been up to . |
| 21 | The youngest children had been out in the playground ; some of them survived . |
| 22 | On the way in the train earlier she had pictured her meeting with Penry over and over again , but none of her imaginings had been remotely like the reality . |
| 23 | When the rest got back to the pageant carts , local Guildsmen had been there before them . |
| 24 | However , the Prime Minister , Petre Roman , admitted that the miners at times had been out of control and had committed violence against innocent people , although he supported their mobilization to aid the government . |
| 25 | In the four years they had been separated , she had seen her husband only twice , and both times had been quite by chance . |
| 26 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |
| 27 | The boys had been out on their bikes with a friend when they saw two men shooting into the brook . |
| 28 | After all , the leading ministers had been continuously in office for the past ten years , and had achieved many of their declared objectives . |
| 29 | Counsel for the ‘ Seventeen Towns ’ , claimed by Finch to be within the forest bounds , produced in rebuttal the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , and their confirmation by Act of Parliament in 1336 , urging also that these towns had been out of the forest by ‘ the long and constant Usage ever since . |
| 30 | Others had been out of business for a while now . |