Example sentences of "had be a [adj] experience " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a strange experience and he had felt how different this magical rite seemed compared with the church services he remembered from home . |
| 2 | The distinguished chemist Lord Dainton described recently how the finding of a book on valency at his public library in Sheffield had been a seminal experience in his life . |
| 3 | West Germany was still loathed abroad , economic reconstruction had only begun , large numbers of refugees had swollen the numbers of the unemployed , many politicians were inexperienced in office , the government lacked full sovereignty , and the division from the East had been a traumatic experience . |
| 4 | For Dick Pountaine , fresh out of his Imperial College science degree , and moving within Notting Hill 's underground milieu , a visit to the RSSF 's inauguration had been a gloomy experience . |
| 5 | It was Willans who advised Rolt 's parents to apprentice him as a mechanical engineer , and it was with great enthusiasm that in 1926 the boy left Cheltenham College , which had been a miserable experience for him , to serve as a pupil at Bomfords , an agricultural engineering firm at Pitchill near Evesham . |
| 6 | Whether I 'd stuck to my guns or not , it had been a harrowing experience and I felt abused . |
| 7 | He had written it under the supervision of James Blackadder , which had been a discouraging experience . |
| 8 | The waxed calabashes of oils and spices , the pouches of prepared tobacco , the bricks of indigo and necklaces of shells and seeds they offered Kit and his party betrayed how important a stake he had unwittingly obtained ; it had been a remarkable experience , he had to admit , receiving the embassy . |
| 9 | Seeing Nicky again had been an unsettling experience , for two reasons . |
| 10 | I could see that it had been an upsetting experience . |