Example sentences of "had been in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government was well aware that the very survival of the church had been in no small degree due to the coherence and discipline imparted by the episcopate . |
| 2 | They had been in no hurry to get away but intended to wait until the beginning of daylight before entering the forest . |
| 3 | Emily Faithfull herself rather naively replied to one questioner : Suppose a printer receives from 30s to 36s a week and suppose his wages were reduced 10s per week , and his daughters who before had been in no employment receive each 10s , 12s or 15s … |
| 4 | But even on a cursory examination the doctor had been in no doubt . |
| 5 | Pre-Astrid , Jay had been in a dead job , art workshops with utterly disillusioned teenagers , every morning she coughed she rang in sick , malingering Mondays , rain seeped in the doors of the empty bus every morning , the bus to the High Street for the next bus , hoping to be early enough to miss the screaming leering sneering schoolgirls she had to face all day . |
| 6 | Jasper had been in a road accident a few months before the diagnosis . |
| 7 | Edwards , Manchester United 's chief executive and major shareholder , was at pains to emphasise that Knighton had been in a position to complete the deal , but had not done so ‘ in the interests of the club ’ and had at no time sought compensation . |
| 8 | But she had been in a coma , she was n't mad . |
| 9 | If Cullam had been in a fit state to observe behaviour he might have thought the chief inspector bored or preoccupied . |
| 10 | In one study , body weight as well as general development progressed more in a group of premature babies living in a hospital nursery which imposed light/dark and noise/quiet rhythms than in a group who had been in a ward with less emphasis on the differences between night and day . |
| 11 | Shortly before the wedding Edward Adeane , Charles 's private secretary , had been in a dining club with the artist ; he pushed a packet of cigarettes across the table towards him . |
| 12 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 13 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 14 | She had been in a state of shock . |
| 15 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 16 | An analysis by marital status and number of children showed that for the married the main difference was between those with no children , 17 per cent of whom had been in a residential home , and those with one or more , for whom the proportion was 5 per cent . |
| 17 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 18 | ( People who had been in a hospital for all the year before they died have been excluded from these comparisons . ) |
| 19 | But if the comparison between those who had been in a home and others is confined to those for whom relatives , neighbours or friends were interviewed , there is still a difference : 31 per cent against 19 per cent . |
| 20 | Among this older group 46 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more were admitted , 75 per cent of the others . |
| 21 | The daughter of a woman with Huntingdon 's chorea who had been in a nursing home described the care she got there as |
| 22 | The other factor that was related to assessments of quality of life was whether people had been in a residential home for a year or more or for a shorter time . |
| 23 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 24 | Since the Headmaster had been in a bad mood almost everything anyone did was at the risk of being punished . |
| 25 | If these new inputs had been in a form that small farmers in marginal areas could practically use , it could be hypothesised that the resulting extra incomes would encourage soil-conserving investments and would take the pressure off farmers to over-exploit the environment . |
| 26 | The old Union station had been in a rambling neo-Romanesque style , but the new one was to match the grandest of the American Beaux-Arts school , and in some ways surpass them . |
| 27 | I remember one British Open at Turnberry , we were playing the 16th and Tom had been in a burn . |
| 28 | You can get wetter than if you had been in a winter shower . |
| 29 | The biggest loss I recorded was 11oz in a 9lb 5oz bream which had been in a keepnet for nine hours . |
| 30 | I remembered how once when I had been in a crowd teasing an awkward boy at school I had noticed his terror and been glad I was not him . |