Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 2 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 3 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 4 | The plan had been originally for Rohan to marry Antoinette , but because she was the Baronne 's niece , not Gaston 's , the inheritance would have been penalised financially by the government . |
| 5 | In spite of her affected disinterest , Taureg 's return had been well worth watching . |
| 6 | At the time of the so-called race riots , Shanti and her friends were discussing the events in Manchester , and agreeing that the whole sad business had been more about unemployment than about race . |
| 7 | But , unfortunately , Neil was not even safely ensconced in the house , as he should have been , so Ewen Mackay was free to resume whatever his business had been there on Wednesday night . |
| 8 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 9 | It had disturbed her enough , and even if the unwritten reproof had been solely in her own imagination she was not about to look again and check it . |
| 10 | And as the boat station had been there before nineteen sixty six , probably a hundred years before nineteen sixty six , it was then claimed that this person had adverse possession , which in short , is squatter 's rights . |
| 11 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 12 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 13 | The Court , however , ruled on March 19 , 1991 , that the Commission had been within in its powers in invoking Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome , which allowed it to override government objections in such cases [ see p. 36154 ] . |
| 14 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 15 | Yes , the dog had been slightly off colour for a week or two No , he was n't really ill , but listless and coughing occasionally . |
| 16 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 17 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 18 | The operation had been far from easy , the cable being ‘ … manhandled out of the hold of a steamer , over a pulley and round a drum which measured the speed , and then several times round a brake drum before passing into the sea ’ .5 |
| 19 | Absenteeism and lack of reverence in church had been far from unknown before the Reformation ; indeed such charges were the most frequent cause of appearances before the Suffolk ecclesiastical courts in the fifteenth century . |
| 20 | Further , Curtis had informed Grant that the word on the streets was that the recent outbreak of violence and killing had been all about a territorial dispute between rival Triad and Mafia gangs . |
| 21 | The cheap attempt at humour had been too like a treacherous repudiation of Timmy whom he loved . |
| 22 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |
| 23 | City had been ahead from the 12th minute when full-back Hill was left unmarked at a Brennan corner and took advantage with a crisp header . |
| 24 | At first Canadian settlement had been largely along the border with the United States , south of the 50th parallel , and American railway companies had taken Canadian grain to the world market . |
| 25 | Consequently , he ruled , the Education Ministry had been perfectly within its rights to ban the book . |
| 26 | The majority ( 76 per cent ) claim to have understood what was required of them well or very well , and that the introduction of the scheme in their school had been fairly to very adequate , ( 78 per cent ) . |
| 27 | The master had been wildly in love with the governess , you see , ma'am , although she was just a plain little thing , and when she disappeared , he almost went mad . |
| 28 | While In 1960 Cambridge English had been still in the process of accommodating traditional canonical scholarship to the revisions of the new criticism , by the end of that decade this process had been displaced in the name of a pluralism of approaches . |
| 29 | While the unit had been away in the field , the usual correspondence was being exchanged between the various staffs involved , almost certainly without Stirling 's knowledge . |
| 30 | You know his father had started the company and the men , the older men in the quarry had been there from day one with him , you know from when they were producing next to nothing to being quite a profitable concern , and he realized the value of these men , and that you could n't just say , oh because they disagree with you just well , down the road pal . |