Example sentences of "had [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local elections confirmed the trend and their historian has interpreted them as showing that " by 1913 , the Conservatives had rarely been stronger in the Councils of the land , or indeed more poised for success in the forthcoming general election " . |
| 2 | Paul wondered if he had perhaps been remiss in his lectures with all that had happened ; but it was not that , as it turned out . |
| 3 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 4 | His father 's brother , Gloucester had hitherto been loyal to a fault . |
| 5 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 6 | Every other sound that she had hitherto been conscious of — the distant bleat of sheep in the field , the wind in the trees , the mewling cry of a hawk far above her — disappeared , vanished from her awareness . |
| 7 | He pointed out my Marvin as being a prototype he had made in 1964 , and said how the beech neck on my model was later fitted with a trim , and how the position of the 3-way selector switch was altered from vertical to horizontal following a request from Hank himself , knowledge that had hitherto been unknown to me . |
| 8 | After dinner in the drawing-room the children , fierce now with the determination to stay awake on such an evening — for even though dinner had been very early to accommodate them , they had all been awake since dawn — clamoured for games . |
| 9 | But then , those few of Elise 's men friends whom Merrill had met had all been charismatic in one way or another . |
| 10 | The various people mentioned , such as Ned and Barley , had all been involved in the operation in one way or another . |
| 11 | It had all been stage-managed by the Mossad . |
| 12 | My clothes , hair , ears , trainers had all been full of broken bits of twig … |
| 13 | Before the 1967 war Syria , Egypt and Jordan had all been concerned with the issues of Arab nationalism . |
| 14 | They had all been hard at work ever since . |
| 15 | They had all been lucky to be seen out with him . |
| 16 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 17 | Hedley Byrne was considering a substantial advertising programme for a customer which previously had only been involved in limited programmes . |
| 18 | She was a weak fool — the pillow received another thump — imagining things when he had only been intent on silencing her . |
| 19 | But she had only been one of two . |
| 20 | This had only been possible before using invasive manometric techniques or ionising radiation . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's none of your damned business ! ’ she snapped half-heartedly , yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain , because Ryan had only been ardent at first ; after that , it had been she who had made the advances . |
| 22 | She had only been mad at Dan , because he had brought up Patrick 's name when she wanted him to be a secret . |
| 23 | This had especially been true of the larger members . |
| 24 | But he had obviously been right about Damian Flint . |
| 25 | At best , however , the feudal summons could produce a cavalry force of little over 500 men , and even in Edward I 's reign it had obviously been insufficient in itself as a means of raising an army . |
| 26 | The attackers had obviously been surprised by the ferocity of their defence . |
| 27 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 28 | It had long been traditional for offices to hold an annual dinner for staff in the winter and an outing or picnic in summer . |
| 29 | Most Conservative opinion had long been opposed to the system whereby a trade union could contribute to the Labour Party a proportion of each member 's subscription , unless the member specially contracted out . |
| 30 | The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities . |