Example sentences of "had been [art] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thurmaston had been a typical Leicestershire village with all its farmhouses and cottages clustered together and surrounded by its huge open fields until the enclosure award of 1763 . |
| 2 | When he testified , he had already been characterized as Batman , and Superman and , most frequently , Rambo ( but ‘ a Rambo with all his clothes on ’ , as The Spectator put it ) ; he had been a composite Clint Eastwood type , part-lonesome cowboy , part Dirty Harry ; he had been James Bond and James Dean , ‘ the rebel with a cause ’ . |
| 3 | er , I said if it had been a normal Saturday I said we 'd have cancelled that you know , we 'd have met you in Duffley but er , I said my mum 's supposed to be dancing . |
| 4 | Joanna Lumley had always had a passion , as she put it , for Dirk Bogarde ; Dustin Hoffman was a fan of Sting ; John Lennon had been a great Monty Python fan , and so Yoko was delighted to meet John Cleese . |
| 5 | As the neighbours started to emerge later in the day , everyone agreed it had been a great San Juan . |
| 6 | Well , we 'd played with Kel Nagle , Peter 's best pal , and our opponents in the Canada Cup in Portmarnock had been a certain Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead . |
| 7 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 8 | A keen follower of fashions , he had been a notable Ted in his day , but had now abandoned the narrow trousers and sharp haircut in favour of golden locks curling on his shoulders worn with a loose striped robe bought in Egypt . |
| 9 | It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather . |
| 10 | There had been a dozen East European ‘ experts ’ around the breakfast table , advising Maggie on her Polish trip . |
| 11 | " So what would you normally have done as soon as you arrived if this had been an ordinary Thursday ? |
| 12 | It was far from clear to the pope how this could have been transmitted to the whole human race unless there had been an historical Adam and Eve , that is , a single set of parents . |
| 13 | Probably there had been an earlier Atlantic which came to an end with the Caledonian orogeny , but this was the beginning of the ocean that we have today . |
| 14 | One of the pilots had been the ace Al Deere . |
| 15 | Labour Minister , Lee Kim Sai of the Malaysian Chinese Association ( MCA ) who was moved to Housing and Local Government , was replaced by Lim Ah Lek , who had been the victorious MCA candidate in the recent Bentong by-election [ see below ] . |
| 16 | The first oilfield to come on stream had been the small Argyll field in mid-1975 , followed by pipeline deliveries from the Norwegian ‘ Ekofisk ’ field and the massive British Forties field later that year . |
| 17 | Greece had been the first EEC ‘ associate ’ member in 1962 and had already reduced tariffs and harmonised agricultural policies with the Community . |
| 18 | Rob McKinnon had been the only Hartlepool player not pilloried in that game , and the 23-year-old left-back was the most impressive player again . |
| 19 | It had been the only Atlantic refuge available to the battleship , Tirpitz . |
| 20 | From 1904 it had been the last Romanov 's main home . |
| 21 | The hit of the summer of 1964 in the London theatre had been the Royal Shakespeare Company 's Marat-Sade , theatre as revolution , and the dialogue between mind and politics . |
| 22 | It had been a village of thatched cabins , with virtually no other buildings at all , and had been the original Galway town before De Burgo came . |
| 23 | On 27 June Tan Malaka and other leading Communists were set free and Sjahrir was kidnapped just as Sukarno had been the previous August . |
| 24 | The fastest man had been the American Carl Lewis , with 9.99 seconds ; the slowest was Samuel Birch of Liberia , with 11.68 . |
| 25 | The messenger had been sent by a group of Annan citizens loyal to the Bruce connection ; after all , the late King Robert had been the sixth Bruce Lord of Annandale . |
| 26 | Until yesterday the favourite to partner McMahon had been the 22-year-old Michael Thomas of Arsenal , who has only made one appearance for England : a disappointing debut in Saudi Arabia late last year . |