Sentence examples for had been bright from inspiring English sources
The day had been bright and clear, the weather unseasonably warm; the night cooled the neighborhood off, but not unpleasantly so.
At such times, a dark, heavy shadow can cast itself over a bar that had been bright and buzzing only hours earlier.
He had been bright enough as a child to be talked of as one of the students who could be sent abroad for schooling.
The Brazilian had been bright in the opening period, converting his side's opener crisply into a gaping net after the impressive Kenedy's own backheel and Cesc Fàbregas's square pass.
And after Serdar Aziz's header bounced dangerously over the Dutch goal, Wesley Sneijder had a great chance to equalise for the visitors, once again Van Persie providing the layoff, though the final shot was tame.Memphis Depay had been bright for Holland, his crosses causing trouble on occasion, but Turkey negated that with a second goal on 25 minutes.
And the result was put beyond doubt when Stewart, who had been bright throughout, picked up a pin-point long ball and cut inside before moving into the box and slotting past a helpless Scully.
In January 1996, the brightness of 1989ML had been brighter than 20-magnitude in R-band and we succeeded to observe it using a 1.05-m schmidt telescope with 1K CCD detector at Kiso Observatory, Japan.
But there have been bright spots.
The sessions have been good - the lads have been bright, the atmosphere has been positive and there has been lots of good football".
Economic data has been bright lately, but not sufficient to erase worries about the health of the jobs market and the chronically troubled housing market.
Faded and streaked with water damage and pigeon droppings they show hands shaking across the ocean in what would once have been bright, cheerful colours.
