Example sentences of "had been [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have a superior front five , although the Pontypridd lock Mark Rowley had been getting the better of several big names lately and will relish the prospect of testing himself against Tony Copsey . |
| 2 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 3 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 4 | The king 's original intention , goaded by the Pope 's refusal to grant him a divorce , had been to effect a greater lay control of an uncertain church . |
| 5 | It was agreed the method of the selling of tickets for future occasions should be considered but that once the quota had been reached no further participants should be admitted . |
| 6 | In later life , Jaq understood that this particular Black Ship had been carrying a higher percentage of individualists hailing from less longstandingly pious worlds , than most such shipments . |
| 7 | With the 8 mm clast sizes , exposed edges of bone began to become chipped within the first hour of abrasion and some loss of molars occurred ( Fig. 1.10A ) , but once the weaker bone had been removed no further breakage occurred . |
| 8 | If Leeds had been playing a better team they would n't have won but such is the game that you ca n't play the big boys everyday ( thank God ) and Leeds eventually , to the fans relief , and mine too , registered their first win in four games and hopefully gained a confidence booster both for their defence and for our new goalkeeper Beeney who was called on to make only two saves , important as they were . |
| 9 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |