Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun] had be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum , Frankie and Liza had been the first to go , before Dad saw them . |
| 2 | The well-tried Roman policy of divide and rule had been the basis of Augustan diplomacy and continued during the conquest . |
| 3 | One of the main concerns that Vernon had was the mess that was caused by throwing , his words , the bales down , and they were breaking open . |
| 4 | Prior to this , the maintenance of law and order had been the concern of the wakeman , the chief of a body of aldermen , who were the appointed guardians of the people 's rights and custodians of secular property . |
| 5 | In his report Sir Edward said that planning matters and roads had been the association 's major considerations . |
| 6 | Letelier and Moffit had been the victims of a car bomb in Washington , but Chile 's Supreme Court had twice refused requests from the US government for the extradition of Contreras and Espinoza , and military courts had repeatedly refused to re-open proceedings against them . |
| 7 | Around the time of the bombing , Megrahi had been security chief for Libyan Arab Airlines and Fhimah had been the airline 's station officer in Malta . |
| 8 | Christians and Muslims had been the victims of sectarian assassinations . |
| 9 | He knew everyone who mattered , and it was luck as much as anything else — what if reggae or jazz-funk had been the dominant force then ? — but Parsons was still capable of grabbing the opportunity when it knocked . |
| 10 | Mr Chambers ' name and virtues had been the main topic of her mother 's conversation for the last two months , and no matter how many times Honor expressed her dislike of the man , Flora continued to press the subject . |
| 11 | Irons and radios had been the only appliances owned by the majority of consumers before the War and they were joined by electric fires at the end of it . |
| 12 | Procrastination , compromise and delay had been the response of successive governments of both political parties . |
| 13 | It was ironic to Victor and the colleagues sitting round the table that morning that Gorbachev had been the KGB choice as leader . |
| 14 | Only a month before Mikael had been the proudest chief in Abyssinia and it must have been a bitter moment for him to be led in triumph before the hated Shoans . |
| 15 | ‘ The style that EVO had was the one I particularly picked up on ’ , says Miles . |
| 16 | Up to this period , mining had been essentially a hand-craft where , as in farming , man-power and horse-power had been the chief means of winning the product . |
| 17 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 18 | Rivers and canals had been the main means of transporting goods , particularly heavy or bulky goods , but at the beginning of the nineteenth century , railways began to appear . |