Example sentences of "had been [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 2 | In so saying , Fortescue had all but admitted that Henry V had been ahead of his time . |
| 3 | Real income per head of the UK population was lower in the mid-1980s than in eleven other advanced capitalist countries , while even in 1953 only three ( the US , Canada and Sweden ) had been ahead of the UK . |
| 4 | She had been right of course . |
| 5 | She had once been a warm Methodist and so too , probably , had been most of her followers . |
| 6 | The earlier specification of the ‘ liberal arts ’ had been primarily of branches of knowledge . |
| 7 | It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability . |