Example sentences of "had been [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember one Monday morning , just after we went into the Boys ' School , he came into Standard One and brought with him , from our class , Jim Weeks , who had been absent when the registers were called . |
| 2 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 3 | Retrospective radiological review showed that this lesion had been present when an initial diagnosis of coeliac disease had been made 12 months previously and a detailed description of the natural history of the lymphoma during this period was thus available . |
| 4 | It would be interesting to learn who had been present when the fastidious Miss Easterbrook had had her accident with the tea . |
| 5 | It is not known how long the 54-year-old , who lived in Squarehouse Lane , Crossens , had been unconscious before the alarm was raised . |
| 6 | A belated denial that any subsidies had been paid to Neophane did not materialise until June 1991 , when the Italian government explained that extensive inquiries had been necessary because the original allegations lacked detail . |
| 7 | He thought that the prairie grassland climax had been stable since the last ice age and could be restored at any time even after interference by humankind . |
| 8 | The post had been vacant since the resignation of Chedli Klibi ( Tunisia ) in September 1990 , when inter-Arab divisions heightened by the Gulf war had contributed to controversy over the timing of the proposed relocation of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis back to Cairo [ see p. 37726 ] . |
| 9 | But there was some comfort in the figures for the Government and for an already hard-pressed pound , which could have faced another battering if the deficit had been worse than the expected £1.5billion . |
| 10 | The other man had been chain-smoking since the doors closed , his rich cough gurgling between pulls on the cigarette . |
| 11 | It had been Fei Yen 's idea to have a midnight picnic and Tsu Ma had been delighted when the two girls had come to them with blankets and a basket , interrupting their talk . |
| 12 | Mr Smith , they added , had been depressed since the death of his father 11 years ago , and he found it hard to work the farm alone . |
| 13 | Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found . |
| 14 | Relations with India , which had been difficult since the 1987 coup , deteriorated further in 1990 as a result of the discriminatory nature of the proposed constitution . |
| 15 | Tess had been calm since the baptism and she remained calm . |
| 16 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 17 | His fascination with anything to do with space and spaceflight bordered upon obsession and he had been horrified when The New Hope had been blown out of the sky by the Seven . |
| 18 | Hampstead had already brought her sharply into his mind — that had been obvious when the name had leapt into view on our arrival . |
| 19 | The British view of developments in Korea , upon which Britain was rarely approached by the United States — and this had been true since the Yalta conference — was that American policy was blundering and General Hodge inept . |
| 20 | The women had been amused though the men , especially Dadda , embarrassed , when its movements , or so Joanne averred , had bounced a plate off her lap . |
| 21 | The requirement against memory ‘ bundling ’ had been important when the EC first looked at the complaints back in 1977 ; but in the period 1977–84 memory prices dropped so steeply as to make the point relatively trivial . |
| 22 | Everything had been fine until the nightmares . |
| 23 | Women had rarely previously been members of Friendly Societies , the extent of their ill-health had been unknown when the Act was framed , and administrators were unprepared for it . |
| 24 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 25 | She well knew Richard Sharpe 's reluctance to dance , which was why she had been surprised when the message came from the Prince of Orange 's headquarters informing her that Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe would be attending His Royal Highness at the Duchess of Richmond 's ball , in anticipation of which His Royal Highness took pleasure in enclosing a ticket for Madame la Vicomtesse de Seleglise . |
| 26 | She had always imagined drug-pushing to be a male-dominated business and had been surprised when the prim-looking blonde in a navy blue duffel coat had approached her . |