Example sentences of "who had been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They called themselves the Clamshell Alliance after the local clam fishers , who had been particularly upset by the plan . |
| 2 | As he ended , there was an enormous cheer on our side and I saw one of our backbenchers who had been particularly critical over the weekend waving his order paper in enthusiastic support . |
| 3 | However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house . |
| 4 | It seemed that Maidstone , who had been completely sober at ten o'clock when he left the bar , returned at about midday , still sober , but immediately started drinking heavily . |
| 5 | In the 1980s , search won many new customers ; but these were precisely the companies who had been most reluctant to call on headhunters , and most cautious in using them . |
| 6 | And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony . |
| 7 | What Alexander had decided to do was to send the British Resident Minister , who had been intimately involved in the crisis , up to Venezia Giulia to brief the senior army commanders on every aspect of the delicate political situation which surrounded it . |
| 8 | In fact the use of the phrase " verbal directive " is a further indication that this signal was not drafted by someone who had been intimately involved In the events of the previous ten days , as Brig Low had been . |
| 9 | He was attempting to comfort Cleo , who had been uncharacteristically silent since their encounter with the children . |
| 10 | Sad that his country had fallen from the top of the European industrial league , to joint eighth out of nine , and bitter toward the foolish leaders who had been largely responsible for its decline . |
| 11 | Being also part of the ‘ old guard ’ who had been somewhat resentful of Sydney Newman 's wind of change , Kine issued a flat ‘ No ’ when he was asked , by Mervyn Pinfield , to take on the enormous effects requirements of Doctor Who 's science fiction stories . |
| 12 | She explained that she had not been able to bring herself to discuss things with them , although she had managed to speak to her married brother , who had been very supportive and helpful . |
| 13 | There was a deliberate garden party atmosphere as the picnics came out and corks popped among the invited audience and the locals who had been very keen to see the new happening within their midst . |
| 14 | Some years ago she had gone to stud , with her colt foal at foot , to be served by a stallion who had been very successful on the race track . |
| 15 | Greek theologians who had been trained in Italy and who had been very impressed by Aquinas and his Aristotelian Christianity were opposed and defeated by St Gregory Palamas , who refused to consider God in any sense as a concept , however inspiring , that could be rationally discussed and analysed . |
| 16 | To avoid too much fuss , Anna had gone further than she intended , told her mother that she had seen Griselda 's corpse and talked to the offending motorist who had been very distressed . |
| 17 | ‘ And then Crom Croich eats the hearts , ’ said the soldier , and Cathbad , who had been very busy all afternoon supervising the skinning and jointing of an ox and had been planning to serve braised ox heart for tomorrow 's midday meal , turned quite green and tried to remember if they had any salted pig left . |
| 18 | Loreto supporters , who had been very vocal up until then , were silenced . |
| 19 | The defence counsel , Robert Henderson , QC , said that Mr Buckley 's death had been a great shock to Sutherland who had been very lucky to escape with his life . |
| 20 | Robert , who had been very silent , said suddenly , ‘ I know it 's too soon , but your little daughter might feel her loss less deeply if you gave her another dog . |
| 21 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 22 | Perhaps West who had been very conscious of social needs , had had an influence on his thoughts on such matters . |
| 23 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 24 | But in this case , Everett argued , Guinness Mahon could take up the slack as the company fully expected other investors who had been too slow to meet the deadline to come in . |
| 25 | He denied it but after she had an abortion allegedly confessed to his wife , who had been too afraid and embarrassed to go to the police . |
| 26 | For Mr Yeltsin , who had been under great pressure all week , it was a victory achieved with the smallest of concessions — a vague promise to loosen monetary controls and grant extra help to Russia 's poorest . |
| 27 | Among the thirty-eight who had been politically active , there were more than twice as many Conservatives as anything else — nineteen were Tories , seven Liberal and eight Labour . |
| 28 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |
| 29 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 30 | Catherine , who had been more reliant on her sister than doctors realised , died of heart failure while under sedation on a life support machine . |