Example sentences of "had been most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in these industrial areas on the east side of the city that the damage caused by Allied bombing had been most extensive . |
| 2 | Members agreed that the past year 's social events had been most successful . |
| 3 | Exit-poll findings and election returns showed that Tyminski had been most successful in the countryside and small towns , where the benefits of the economic reforms had so far been negligible , and among young people waiting for housing and workers concerned about their jobs . |
| 4 | Hugh Fraser predictably had been most anxious to join his friend and colleague in the dock . |
| 5 | The barman had been most amenable , what with his new TV show coming up and everything . |
| 6 | The Poor Law had been most effective in forcing all those who could to be self-helping . |
| 7 | The public had been most incensed at the relative simplicity with which the Royal Mail company had been relieved of their entrusted money . |
| 8 | The general situation had been most unsatisfactory right from the start in 191 7 , even amongst the proletariat of Petrograd , the core of Bolshevik support . |
| 9 | I felt I had to comply , out of gratitude to one who , with his wife , had been most hospitable ; and , no doubt detecting merits which were not there , I forwarded it to Eliot . |
| 10 | As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 : |
| 11 | The American audiences had been most receptive , and generous as Americans always were . |
| 12 | They had returned on the late theatre train , and it had been most pleasant walking down from the railway station and along the seafront so late at night ; ah , to have a pretty girl by one 's side , and the touch of her lips on yours . |
| 13 | Late in 1941 a memorandum to the National Executive indicated , as might have been expected , that the main area of loss of membership was London and the home and eastern counties , where it had been most necessary to evacuate the population . |
| 14 | Nowhere was the impact of this clumsy sleight of hand more evident than in the inner cities , where voluntary organizations had been most active , and where the Government was most anxious for them to mop up unemployment . |
| 15 | My friend the builder ( I met him , once , and he was ever such a nice bloke ) had been most creative in his choice of rubble . |
| 16 | They had spent a pleasant evening , and James had been most solicitous when he took his leave . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cissie had been most reluctant to surrender her independence and take up employment in Moll Sutton 's flower shop . |
| 19 | Trevor Hammond , Fund Raising Officer of the A4 Locomotive Society , told SRN that the visit to the Severn Valley Railway had been most enjoyable . |
| 20 | It had been most enjoyable with a tremendous amount of flying : I had been in every part of the Command — Persia as it was in those days , down the Gulf and all the way round the Gulf to Bahrain , Salalah , I took part in the search for the Imperial Airways Argosy airliner City of Glasgow that landed on the beach and was literally lost for a couple of days before one of the Shaihah crews found it away down beyond Sulwah Wells . |
| 21 | The funeral was over ; Paul need not trouble to come down , everything had been arranged ; Colonel Carteret , who lodged with her , had been most kind , and had seen to everything . |
| 22 | Yet , before , on their secret dates , Rab had been most punctual — a big smile and hug for her — while she , to have him more keen , had hung back a little late . |
| 23 | Recession in Argentina , Brazil and Peru had been most significant in producing this fall . |
| 24 | These were the very employers who , in the past , had been most likely to include their workers in occupational pension schemes ( Government Actuary , 1958 , 1966 , 1968 , 1972 , 1978 , 1981 ) . |
| 25 | Linnet had been most positive about it . |
| 26 | Though she had slept longer , her dreams , if not alarming , had been most unpleasant , and she woke feeling unrested . |
| 27 | He said she had received threatening phone calls and that the whole experience had been most unpleasant . |
| 28 | Which way round had they come , and which had been most important to the killer ? |
| 29 | He had been most concerned with the inequality of provision between rural and urban areas which made tests of attainment a massive handicap for rural or impoverished urban children . |
| 30 | 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 . |