Example sentences of "they had [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 2 | It was as if they had served to draw some morbid agent from her blood , as if they had been a great black and damson poultice to draw off her petulant humours and leave her as placid as a Madonna . |
| 3 | The object of ( b ) is to require delivery of the accounts of an unlimited company if two or more limited companies would , if they had been a single entity , have been the parent of the unlimited company under the criteria in section 258 , although technically the unlimited company is not a subsidiary of any of them . |
| 4 | They had been a knee-jerk reaction , the result of her feeling unsettled by Vitor 's reappearance . |
| 5 | Many of the predators mentioned in the previous section function equally well as scavengers ( Hewson , 1981 ) , and the modifications they produce are the same as if they had been the primary predators . |
| 6 | With Reagan , they had been the chief cause all along . |