Example sentences of "had [been] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product . |
| 2 | She 'd learned about that back when she was Jessamyn Amanda and nine-year-olds had been worth a gallon of potable water on the streets of the NoGo . |
| 3 | She had n't really thought he would agree to stay in the car , but it had been worth a try . |
| 4 | It was reported , for instance , that of the nationally mixed marriages in Turkmenia from the 1920s to the 1970s , not a single one had been between a Turkmen girl and a Russian man . |
| 5 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 6 | She was very tidy and had been as a child , she said ‘ I 'm obssessive ’ . |
| 7 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 8 | Climate Changer is an intriguing choice , since its business to date has been developing applications for the air-conditioning industry — its previous link to OCT had been as a large user of the machines . |
| 9 | The dock was fenced off , but not the way it had been as a real dock , with real cargoes to steal . |
| 10 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 11 | This was attributable mainly to an increase in the number of branches , from 158 in 1953–54 to 189 in 1957–58 ; losses in Bedfordshire ( 15 branches down to 11 ) and the Fenland ( 23 down to 15 ) , both of which had been without a tutor-organiser for much of the period , were more than offset by gains everywhere else , notably in Essex ( 27 branches up to 40 ) and Suffolk ( 14 up to 32 ) . |
| 12 | Of managerial and professional workers unemployed in 1985 , 18.1 per cent had been without work for up to six months , compared to 12.2 per cent of those who had been without a job for between two and three years . |
| 13 | His nomination for chair of the National Bank was rejected ( the Bank had been without a chair since the scandal in August 1991 , when the previous chair had been dismissed — see p. 38399 ) . |
| 14 | Mr Milburn , whose comments have been supported by consultant Sheila Shearson , said Darlington had been without a fulltime accident and emergency consultant even though money was allocated for the post two years ago . |
| 15 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 16 | If no organic being excepting man had possessed any mental power , or if his powers had been of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed . |
| 17 | The fact that they have been invited shows me how stone-cold almost sure Conrad Black had been of a Tory victory . |
| 18 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 19 | Lately , he had been of a mind to trace his son Arnold Thomas , but until such a day as he might be fortunate in that respect , he had no one except the lily-livered David . |
| 20 | Even the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) , though working to a different agenda from that of other critics of the official line , felt that the Libyan contribution to the Lockerbie disaster had been of a low-level technical nature . |
| 21 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 22 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 23 | He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers . |
| 24 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |
| 25 | In 1902 he founded the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club and although this was snobbishly restricted to those who had been to a British public school , the club was instrumental in establishing winter sports as a popular type of holiday . |
| 26 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
| 27 | Princess Diana had been to a sumptuous EC dinner of salmon and pheasant on the Royal Yacht Britannia . |
| 28 | Mr Leslie had been to a railway staff party in a pub called the Flint , which is situated across the road from High Wycombe Station . |
| 29 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 30 | Dynasticism was not dead ; for some rulers , promoting family interests was as important as it had been to a Tudor or a Valois . |