Example sentences of "had [adv] been [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 2 | His father 's brother , Gloucester had hitherto been loyal to a fault . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They had all been lucky to be seen out with him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 7 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 8 | This process had already been invaluable to industry and proved to be so for penicillin . |
| 9 | Great-Aunt Alicia had always been susceptible to good-looking men , Sara reflected , and then had to admit to herself , but never feeble-minded about them . |
| 10 | To lie in bed wakeful had always been intolerable to him . |
| 11 | The open fields themselves had always been subject to piecemeal enclosure , even as early as the fourteenth century . |
| 12 | He did n't know how to cope with someone who was nice to him all the time because all the other people that he knew best ( including his parents ) had always been unkind to him . |
| 13 | Fleur Adams had spoilt Dana in every way she could , to the exclusion of Claudia , who had always been closer to her father . |
| 14 | He had always been close to her . |
| 15 | But Jane had always been close to her mother and , almost inevitably , there came an evening when Mrs Connachan inadvertently prised open the floodgates . |
| 16 | Grunte was ancient , but he had always been nice to her . |
| 17 | Police said the dog had always been protective to Clare 's father , a worker at Gosport Navy base . |
| 18 | Half-way down the great boulevard a fakir shouted up to Dara that previously he had always been generous to the poor ; but now he understood that Dara had nothing to give . |
| 19 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 20 | In 1976 , in response to a White Paper on devolution to Scotland and Wales , the CNAA commented that it had always been sensitive to the specific conditions and needs of Scotland , and that it might be appropriate for the CNAA to set up a Scottish Committee . |
| 21 | Shipbuilding had always been important to Saltash , which was chosen as the site for a Royal Naval base and dockyard . |
| 22 | Animal welfare and health had always been important to the Danes , he said . |
| 23 | Since the 1916 Rising in Dublin , the organization , which had always been prone to spies and informants , had grown very security conscious . |
| 24 | If , of course , he had ever been nearer to Longner , that night , than this disastrous place . |
| 25 | Harvey wondered whether he had ever been able to , even in the beginning . |
| 26 | A country that had once been central to itself was on the periphery : it needed to become central again . |
| 27 | He wrote to Viola again , saying that a spiteful florist he had once been kind to had put the card in the flowers . |
| 28 | The Communist Party had originally been opposed to such a proposal . |
| 29 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 30 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |