Example sentences of "had [been] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin 's position in the firm had been between the two . |
| 2 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 3 | The dock was fenced off , but not the way it had been as a real dock , with real cargoes to steal . |
| 4 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 5 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 6 | Climate Changer is an intriguing choice , since its business to date has been developing applications for the air-conditioning industry — its previous link to OCT had been as a large user of the machines . |
| 7 | When Scarlet attempted to disagree , albeit feebly , Constance cited the scandals in the City and pointed out that the gap between the highest- and the lowest-paid was greater now than it had been since the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | Between 1950 and 1975 the female proportion of the working population rose from 33 per cent ( which it had been since the 1890s ) to over 40 per cent ( Hunt , 1975 ) . |
| 9 | In his later career he was hard-working and respected , especially by those in whose interests he was acting , but not innovative , as he had been during the heroic period of sanitary reform . |
| 10 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 11 | It was easy to pin-point the period of time within which the theft must have occurred , and not too difficult — was it ? — to find out where the great majority of you had been during the crucial forty-five minutes . |
| 12 | He was happier than he had been during the seven bad years between 1976 and 1982 , still self-assured but now far more reasonable . |
| 13 | Enjoying widespread support in the constituencies , the supporters of the tariff threatened to become a danger to Baldwin 's leadership — as they had been during the 1929–31 period . |
| 14 | Even the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) , though working to a different agenda from that of other critics of the official line , felt that the Libyan contribution to the Lockerbie disaster had been of a low-level technical nature . |
| 15 | The fact that they have been invited shows me how stone-cold almost sure Conrad Black had been of a Tory victory . |
| 16 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 17 | Auntie 's exceptional eyesight had been of no particular help to her in her job : she was a filing-clerk in a block of offices , for ever sorting other people 's dull letters and dull memoranda . |
| 18 | Rachel Esthart , a famous actress of her day , and a patron of Stella Pinero 's just as the then Chief Inspector Dander had been of the young Coffin , had left her Greenwich house to Stella . |
| 19 | Its chairman was John Grierson who had never been particularly interested in responding to the requirements of the commercial market-place , and production control was in the hands of John Baxter , a onetime director whose films had been of the prosaic but worthy variety . |
| 20 | He asked for prayer about the journey to Jerusalem , knowing the tensions that existed between the Christians who had been of the Jewish faith , and those who were converted Gentiles . |
| 21 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 22 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 23 | Since joining the BDDA he had been to every one of its Congresses and his inclusion as third member of this select trio was extremely popular . |
| 24 | The Thracians and Illyrians had been to a great extent Hellenised during the fourth century BC , when the Macedonian empire of Philip and Alexander flourished . |
| 25 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 26 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
| 27 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |
| 28 | Princess Diana had been to a sumptuous EC dinner of salmon and pheasant on the Royal Yacht Britannia . |
| 29 | In 1902 he founded the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club and although this was snobbishly restricted to those who had been to a British public school , the club was instrumental in establishing winter sports as a popular type of holiday . |
| 30 | But whereas Futurism had been to a large extent aimed at and against Paris and Parisian painting , the Germans were content to remain on the receiving end of things and their work , in the pre-war years at least , had little or no influence back on French art . |