Example sentences of "had [adv] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 2 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 3 | Essentially , what the communications course does is to bring to the fore issues which had hitherto been considered marginal ; it brings the perspectives of a variety of disciplines to bear on one subject . |
| 4 | H.G. Wells wrote a story about a traveller in South America coming across a community of people who had all been born blind . |
| 5 | Rumour has it that The High had all been living separate musical lives — Andy in particular having just split with the Stone Roses — when they met in Manchester 's Hacienda club , and decided to put a new band together … |
| 6 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 7 | When her mother came into the room the picture was completed but the grass had all been coloured blue . |
| 8 | His two eldest , William ( 19 ) and Thomas ( 16 ) and even Richard ( 14 ) had all been described four years earlier , in the 1841 census , as miners . |
| 9 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 10 | Eagle brought an action against Savory Milln claiming that Savory Milln should account to Eagle for the £13.5m which had only been made available to Savory Milln to use by reason of fraud by Mr Ferriday , Eagle 's then chief executive . |
| 11 | Iraqi forces were debarred from using military aircraft , although it subsequently emerged that this had only been made explicit with regard to fixed-wing aircraft rather than helicopters . |
| 12 | He stated that it had only been made some fifteen to twenty years ago by , of all people , his uncle . |
| 13 | The Rev. Francis Lambert had only been ordained three weeks before his death , the dedication of this window taking place on Sept. 4th 1892 . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Stockton , North said that , when he had only been going two minutes , Richard Holt was already on his feet challenging him . |
| 15 | The list had obviously been printed some time before . |
| 16 | ‘ Always knew you were one of me mates , ’ said Archie , highly gratified that things had suddenly been made easy for him . |
| 17 | Although Laura would have liked a grand white wedding with all the trimmings , her mother had suddenly been taken ill , and clearly could n't manage all the organisation necessary for such an affair . |
| 18 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 19 | He had long been reported ill with kidney problems and was rumoured to have had throat cancer . |
| 20 | All too often the profit earned on an individual house or indeed a development as a whole is less than would have been made if the site had merely been left undeveloped and sold at the end of the development period . |
| 21 | It had apparently been made aware of plans to alert green consumers to the slaughter of dolphins by Starkis — one of its subsidiaries . |
| 22 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 23 | Marathon had already been granted two production licenses in the western edge of Cardigan Bay and St George 's Channel , West Wales . |
| 24 | In addition , they suggested that the effectiveness of the annual accountant 's report in giving early warning of possible default could be re-examined in the light of the Law Society 's experience of those solicitors who had already been made subject to this requirement as a condition of their receiving a practising certificate . |
| 25 | He distinguished Ex parte Good , 5 Ch.D. 46 in that there the other debtor had already been made bankrupt and hence no claim could be made against him . |
| 26 | ‘ Adam , ’ she shouted after him , but the door had already been pushed shut . |
| 27 | Proposals by Dr Robert Rentoul for the compulsory sterilization of the unfit had already been given short shrift by the BMA in 1904 , on the grounds that they were contrary to medical ethics . |
| 28 | ‘ A prisoner , who it was alleged had recently been refused Compassionate Home Leave to visit a dangerously ill relative , had already been allowed three visits over a period of three weeks . |
| 29 | By 1920 the government had already been giving public support to 7,667,769 children in need . |
| 30 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |