Example sentences of "had [be] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |
| 2 | This was quite untenable to Barratt and Taylor and in a letter Taylor complained that there never had been such a requirement in any mining lease and any experienced miner would reject it as attempting to enforce an impossibility . |
| 3 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 4 | After a while I thought that as Dateline had been such a success the first time why not have some fun and do it again ? |
| 5 | The 1951 Stratford season had been such a success , it would have been foolish to have followed it with any lesser thing . |
| 6 | But what happened to the crushed tomatoes which had been such a success , Were they abandoned in favour of whole canned tomatoes ? |
| 7 | But the training that had been such a part of his life , the long hours of studying the Twelve Books of Honour for entry into the Fiana at the age of eleven ; the days and the weeks spent schooling his mind so that all situations could be calmly appraised , came to his aid and , at length , exhausted and drained , Fergus began to look about him and assess this strange , out-of-the-world fortress . |
| 8 | Beside the door of each room a supply of ready-loaded firearms had been laid ; every available weapon , from the Enfield rifles of those killed earlier in the siege to native flintlocks and the countless sporting guns which had been such a feature of " the possessions " , had been pressed into service . |
| 9 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 10 | Boy George was desperate to meet Yoko , he would have done almost anything to be on with her , and Yoko liked the idea of meeting John Cleese because John Lennon had been such a Monty Python fan . |
| 11 | The kiss had been such a butterfly of a thing that she did not reject it , and when he bent and kissed her cheek she did not reject that either . |
| 12 | By contrast , the early 1980s were dominated by the re-emergence of the drift to the South East which had been such a focus of attention in the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 13 | The parameters of the religious issue might have been changed somewhat by the grudging toleration granted to Protestant Nonconformists in 1689 , but the religious settlement can scarcely be said to have provided a satisfactory solution to the issue of Dissent which had been such a source of tension in Restoration society . |
| 14 | There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since . |
| 15 | In this more fiercely competitive situation people quarrel more readily and more often , and the elder who had been such a paragon of gentle paternalism finds things increasingly difficult . |
| 16 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |
| 17 | I saw that notebook again many winters later , and suddenly realised why that first sighting of ‘ Fred ’ had been such a disappointment . |
| 18 | The house in Mouncy Street had been such a place . |
| 19 | A regular visitor to Upper Dean Terrace was my grandmother 's old cook , Bessie , whose chicken cream and queen of puddings had been such a highlight of Nairn holidays , and who was now living in retirement in nearby Learmonth Terrace . |
| 20 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 21 | Even if there had been such an agreement , there was nothing to stop the board getting rid of Mr Venables if it wished , said Mr Heslop . |
| 22 | His musical talents had not been confined to the School , for he had been first a choirboy at St. Matthew 's in Edgeley , and then organist for the Sunday afternoon services at Barnes ' Convalescent Home in Cheadle , followed by eight years as organist at St. John 's , Heaton Mersey , then 20 years at St. Peter 's , Stockport , and finally 34 years at the Parish Church , St. Mary 's , from which he finally retired in 1944 . |
| 23 | Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home . |
| 24 | Since then , those had been all the places she 'd known . |
| 25 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 26 | He was young and fit , and had been half-expecting an attack . |
| 27 | He rode on the Sambre 's northern bank , drawn towards the town by the sound of musketry which had been loud an hour before , but which now had faded into silence . |
| 28 | It really was er of the sort , you know , if Cleopatra 's nose had been half an inch longer , history would have all been different , you know , that , that kind of trivia . |
| 29 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |
| 30 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |