Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion . |
| 32 | His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion . |
| 33 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 34 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 35 | Nevertheless , around one in two Germans in both the American and the British Zones — and a percentage on the increase — thought that National Socialism had basically been a good idea , badly carried out , and were far more favourably disposed to it than to communism . |
| 36 | He was philosophical , not to say laid back about the inconvenience of being called out unnecessarily at the end of what had already been a long day . |
| 37 | There had already been a violent expression of xenophobic sentiment earlier in the year when China 's football team failed to qualify for the World Cup . |
| 38 | He had already been a first-year seminarian when Eduardo was five . |
| 39 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 40 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 41 | So we invoked that agreement , and Charlie said Winter Garden had set a precedent and we said No it had n't , it had just been a Cold War expedient and those days were over . |
| 42 | That had just been a lucky guess . |
| 43 | Any more than Sandra had just been a wholesome , beautiful , normal girl looking to settle down . |
| 44 | There had always been a continued physical Jewish presence there over the centuries ; it was for the Jews too an ancient homeland . |
| 45 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |
| 46 | Fishing had always been a major industry . |
| 47 | His religious faith , which had always been a rationalistic , brittle thing , simply broke apart . |
| 48 | Only Hatchards had hurt , he said , because it was then owned by Collins , Glasgow 's premier publisher , of whom his Smiths had always been a friendly , major customer . |
| 49 | British Merseybeat had always been a no-go era . |
| 50 | She had always been a confident , outgoing person . |
| 51 | Sport had always been a prominent source of news in its own right . |
| 52 | ( There had always been a certain lifelessness about Jane — I felt it even as a child . |
| 53 | Zambia had always been a black cloud in Jordan 's sky , but he could never work out why . |
| 54 | He could remember how , after moving out here and having been a city-dweller all of his life , he 'd come to realise that he 'd never known what true darkness was ; even away from houses and street lighting there had always been a faint , reflected amber cast to the sky , but here there was nothing . |
| 55 | In addition to art and history , travel of any kind had always been a powerful addiction . |
| 56 | William Langdon , Hodge 's political adviser , told Byrnes on 20 November that the Korean people had always been a distinct nation except for the short colonial period and possessed high literacy , cultural and living standards , when judged by Asiatic or Middle Eastern standards : if trusteeship was approved , it would have to be supported by force . |
| 57 | David had always been a great fashion person as well . |
| 58 | Theirs had always been a smoke-free household . |
| 59 | Darren had always been a good and well-behaved boy but once he had returned home he had been waking repeatedly in the night and been difficult to manage in the day . |
| 60 | He had always been a good and generous man . |