Example sentences of "had been [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " In many of the projects surveyed , consultation with affected populations and local non-governmental organisations ( NGOs ) had been limited at best . |
| 2 | reported that a quotation for insurance cover for all members had been obtained at 3.50 per head . |
| 3 | Inevitably , many of the young men Crawford had been engaged at great expense to coach found themselves in khaki instead of cricket whites . |
| 4 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 5 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 6 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 7 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 8 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 9 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 10 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 11 | A meeting had been called at one of the local schools , another in a series of as yet fruitless attempts to persuade businesses not to abandon the area to inner-city rot . |
| 12 | Although the talks had been called at short notice in an attempt to reduce bilateral tensions , particularly in the light of recent failures in official negotiations , they were felt by press observers to have produced only ambiguous results . |
| 13 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 14 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |
| 15 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 16 | Sliding hiatel hernia had been seen at preoperative cineradiography in 16 of 21 patients with follow up endoscopy , but no paraoesophageal hernia . |
| 17 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 18 | The eagle had been sighted at various points all over the British Isles by enthusiastic birdwatchers , most of them amateurs . |
| 19 | No part of it had been exercised at 31st March 1991 . |
| 20 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 21 | The accord replaced the 1983 Defence and Economic Co-operation Agreement [ see p. 32588 ] which had expired in December 1988 but had been extended at six-monthly intervals since then in view of the political uncertainties in Greece . |
| 22 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 23 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 24 | It had been made at one of those long , heart-searching breakfast conversations over pancakes and imported Vermont maple syrup . |
| 25 | He spoke to the officer on desk duty who said that a complaint against Russell had been made at another station . |
| 26 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 27 | Whether the production work sharing is something that is still to be decided er at the start of that phase but on the equipment , we were er originally entitled to thirty three percent of the common equipment er when we last gave evidence to the committee the U K work share for equipment stood at some thirty six percent of those that had been selected at that time . |
| 28 | The teachers had been trained at two training colleges in Kemmendine , those for primary schools studying for one year and those for middle schools for two years . |
| 29 | His depression had been caused at first by what he considered to be the disturbing condition of the victors after the war : he was uneasy about the foreign policy of both England and the United States , as well as about the intentions of Russia . |
| 30 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |