Example sentences of "had been [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 2 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 3 | Mr Ashton told yesterday 's hearing that neither man had served a day of his sentence as both had been out of the jurisdiction . |
| 4 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 5 | Counsel for the ‘ Seventeen Towns ’ , claimed by Finch to be within the forest bounds , produced in rebuttal the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , and their confirmation by Act of Parliament in 1336 , urging also that these towns had been out of the forest by ‘ the long and constant Usage ever since . |
| 6 | Dari Sound was also occupied over hurdles but had been out of action since running slightly disappointingly in a two-and-a-half-mile race at Uttoxeter early in December . |
| 7 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 8 | But that had been out of the question , of course . |
| 9 | Just over 4 in 10 ( 42% ) dependent children in 1987 lived in a household where the head had been out of work for two or more years . |
| 10 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 11 | No rivets could be used that had been out of the refrigerator for more than two hours . |
| 12 | Her father , Ray Shepherd had worked in the shipyard until it closed and her elder brother , Steve , had been out of work since leaving school . |
| 13 | It had been out of the question to recognise — reluctance . |
| 14 | By then the Faulkner administration had been out of existence for some months and hostility to it no longer rallied the public . |
| 15 | But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) . |
| 16 | Owing to some essential repairs , the carriage in which Mr Dwerringhouse had travelled had been out of use from the day of his journey to his subsequent ghostly appearance . |
| 17 | The morning she had slammed out of the house and walked through the blitzed London streets to Goddy 's office she had been out of her mind ; shell-shocked , or something . |
| 18 | Did that , he was asked in the House of Commons , mean that he had been out of sympathy with the policies of the Government in which he served in the '80s ? |
| 19 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 20 | Deng Xiaoping had been out of circulation since being accused of provoking the Tiananmen Incident . |
| 21 | Jazzbeaux had been out of it for most of the fighting , but she could tell from the leavings that things had got serious . |
| 22 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 23 | Our basement had been out of bounds since the work started , as a large sign on the stairs informed me . |
| 24 | When he was a child , the loft had been out of bounds . |
| 25 | I found it hard to believe that , even if he had been out of the country , his family could have moved away without his knowing . |
| 26 | It was a very impressive comeback for Cross , who had been out of the game for six months with shin splints . |
| 27 | He knew very little of what had happened , had been out of touch since the first report had reached the Embassy in Rome and he had started running . |
| 28 | For a long time she had been out of control , unable to cope with the everyday demands of her new royal role . |
| 29 | Rothermere was in favour of Beaverbrook himself , and Hailsham and Robert Horne ( a surprising revival as lie had been out of office since the Coalition ) also emerged as occasional possibilities ; pace 1923 , no one seemed inclined to disqualify peers . |
| 30 | Others had been out of business for a while now . |