Example sentences of "had [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been the curious tale of the Argentinian scrap metal merchants who had landed on the island of South Georgia , where the United Kingdom had exercised sovereignty since it was discovered by Captain Cook in I775 . |
| 2 | It had been the early evening of the day after polling day , 1983 . |
| 3 | I decided to give her Arsenicum Album LM1 in a 100ml bottle and within 1 month she was feeling much better , her period had been the best she could remember and she 'd even been out to a party . |
| 4 | Nicholson especially won some excellent notices although Fonda reckoned that Dennis Hopper 's performance had been the best of the three . |
| 5 | There was some good news , too : the harvest had been the best for over thirty years , and after much anxious waiting there was a victory to celebrate from the war front — Nelson had trounced the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile . |
| 6 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 7 | It had been the best day yet . |
| 8 | Sally-Anne took the kiss and the last sight of him standing in the parlour in his beautiful evening clothes up to bed with her , and agreed with him — for really the end of the evening and their happy supper together had been the best thing of all . |
| 9 | He wandered into his dressing room , climbed into his costume — really , buying Mandrika 's old wardrobe had been the best investment he 'd ever made . |
| 10 | In some ways those had been the best days , if she was honest with herself . |
| 11 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 12 | However , it was subsequently discovered that the real target had been the Interior Minister Moussa , the attack being carried out by the Islamic fundamentalist group Al Jihad , allegedly in retaliation for the killing of two Islamic leaders by the security forces in August and September . |
| 13 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 14 | Education had been the final tie that bound them , and forever parted them from their contemporaries . |
| 15 | If that had been the final outcome , question marks over the ability of sterling to maintain its value against the Deutschmark would have been raised and there would have been a prospect of a rise in interest rates to protect the pound . |
| 16 | In April of 1925 a vacancy for the post of superintendent nurse was advertised and the appointment went to Miss May W. Hall , who was 32 years old , and had been the assistant tutor and deputy superintendent nurse at St.James ' Hospital , Chester . |
| 17 | Of the two doctors it was undoubtedly Dr Dunstaple who had the largest number of adherents ; he had been the civil surgeon in Krishnapur for some years and was known to everyone as a kindly and paternal man . |
| 18 | Many of the predators mentioned in the previous section function equally well as scavengers ( Hewson , 1981 ) , and the modifications they produce are the same as if they had been the primary predators . |
| 19 | One tripper on 1960 had been the future Black Dwarf journalist , feminist and socialist , Sheila Rowbotham , fresh out of Yorkshire Methodist boarding school and en route to Oxford . |
| 20 | The issue which provided the main focus of disagreement , and which had also thwarted progress on the CFE and START negotiations , had been the future political and military status of a united Germany . |
| 21 | Of the rest Matthew Cooper played as a fledgling in the All Blacks ' scamper through Japan in 1987 ; Jon Preston had one game in the World Cup last year ; Kevin Schuler appeared briefly as a replacement in France in 1990 ; and Graham Dowd had been the reserve hooker for the World Cup and the home series against the World XV and managed a short time on the field when Richard Loe was injured in the second half of the First Test against Ireland . |
| 22 | This appeal is by the local authority , with the leave of the judge , from an order made by Sir Gervase Sheldon , sitting as an additional judge of the High Court , on 20 December 1991 , whereby he granted to the foster mother , who had been the foster mother of four children in the care of the local authority , leave to apply for a residence order in respect of those children . |
| 23 | Official sources were quoted by the Agence France-Presse news agency ( AFP ) on Jan. 14 as alleging that Aref had been the financial backer of an attempt to assassinate political and military leaders ; if the plan had succeeded , they claimed , a " civil war " between the Afar and Issa communities " would have been inevitable " . |
| 24 | The most heavily affected during the barometer 's six-year life , had been the financial institutions with reported frauds totalling £490 million . |
| 25 | It was certainly better than the sandwich and a can of beer that she 'd expected ; if this had been the late and unlamented Eddie she 'd probably have been faced with a walk to the nearest carry-out to find that he 'd finished off the beer in her absence . |
| 26 | At the time , however , the Committee — judging that a vital influence over the confused development of credit law had been the strong preoccupation of English law with exactly who owns what — set out two ‘ fundamental points ’ as the basis for its legislative proposals , which might be paraphrased in layman 's language like this : |
| 27 | The squad I ran became what can only be described as more ‘ disordered ’ and ‘ polluted ’ than had been the accepted norm , and we exhibited many verbal and nonverbal signals of this divergent nature . |
| 28 | Jacob Epstein had been the unwitting means of introducing Nina Hamnett ( Miss Hamlet to Montparnasse ) to Modigliani by recommending Rosalie 's restaurant to her . |
| 29 | Before long , the diocese appointed a sub-warden , a Canadian priest with a splendid knowledge of the Old Testament , and a ‘ ’ young'' Anglo-Indian priest whose main study had been the New Testament . |
| 30 | I knew if it had been the other way round , if it was Robert I had to ask , he would have said , ‘ On yer bike . ’ ’ |