Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] had be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The turnout , across the Soviet Union as a whole , was 80 per cent , and of those who voted , 76.4 per cent declared in favour of the question that had been asked of them . |
| 2 | She knew who he was , for she had observed him at lectures and had been informed of his parentage . |
| 3 | While this latter disqualification had not prevented the marriage of the Duke d'Orléans , son of Louis-Philippe , with Helen of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , it had in practice proved to be inconvenient , as the duchess did not change her faith and had been accused of pushing ‘ the Protestant interest ’ . |
| 4 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 5 | The night seemed light , the moon was scudding between white clouds , showing up the white world beyond the drive that had been cleared of snow . |
| 6 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |