Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the grey dew had gone from the grass , pats of dung steamed where the cattle had been standing , and Cameron , in his shirt-sleeves with a cloth tying back his long black hair , was supervising the winching up of timbers for the roof . |
| 2 | The prompt action by South Pacific countries to deal with the drift-net plague provided a marked contrast to the situation in the North Pacific high seas , where the US had been dragging its heels as the Asian drift-net fleets continued to pillage the salmon , tuna , and squid resources , and kill tens of thousands of marine mammals and hundreds of thousands of sea birds , many of them in Alaskan fisheries waters . |
| 3 | However , as was pointed out by the Court of Appeal in Coward v Comex Houlder Diving Ltd ( 1988 ) ( reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-322 ) the conventional percentage does not necessarily apply where the wife had been earning a considerable sum herself prior to her husband 's death or presumably where she had a substantial private income : see also Davies v Hawes ( 1990 ) reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-323 . |
| 4 | NRA forces were reported to have committed atrocities against the civilian population in Soroti district in the east , where the government had been fighting the Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) , led by Peter Otai ; in September it was reported that 30 NRA personnel had been arrested for the killing of 60 civilians in the area . |
| 5 | ‘ There were claw marks up the bank side where the badgers had been trying to get out . ’ |
| 6 | She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from . |
| 7 | A conviction ensued where the supervisor had been drinking with the driver who was seen to swerve from side to side ( Crampton v Fish ( 1969 ) , 113 SJ 1003 ) . |
| 8 | Fellatio was particularly common where the assailant had been drinking and was unable to sustain an erection or reach orgasm . |
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| 10 | A survey of the wreckage was said to have proved that the helicopter had been carrying combat weapons and armed personnel as well as civilians ; the Georgian side attributed the crash itself to overloading , with 64 passengers on a 24-seat helicopter . |
| 11 | Thereafter it gradually emerged that the firm had been issuing ‘ uncovered bills of exchange ’ to the tune of at least 250 billion dinars , but perhaps as much as 400 billion dinars ( Politika , 20 August 1987 ) . |
| 12 | They passed each other in the corridor soon afterwards , and each could see that the other had been crying . |
| 13 | And of course he knew as well that the Admiral had been stirring it . |
| 14 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 15 | An autopsy revealed that the pilot had been suffering from severe coronary artery disease . |
| 16 | But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal . |
| 17 | Fran watched the raindrops running down the glass panes , wishing foolishly that the sun had been shining again as a sort of omen . |
| 18 | A UK-based Indonesian human rights campaigning group , Tapol , claimed in its June bulletin that the army had been carrying out public executions of alleged members of the Free Aceh Movement ( FAM ) in northern Sumatra . |
| 19 | If anyone had doubted that the gods had been smiling on British athletics that August week in Stuttgart , the final event must have convinced them . |
| 20 | She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer . |
| 21 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 22 | It appeared that the officer had been admiring the fish swimming about in the water of the Orne when a Royal Marine Commando asked him if he would like some for his supper . |
| 23 | And he remembered that the boy had been fiddling with them . |
| 24 | It is believed that the gang had been watching the property from a nearby field . |
| 25 | Now all this hinted , I 'm sure you 'll agree , that the split had been brewing , indeed planned for some time . |
| 26 | Basically er the broad overall description would be to compensate for the conditions that the tenants had been living in prior to the move . |
| 27 | Kathleen went out that evening and had a drink with a girlfriend , and got back to be told by one of her neighbours that the phone had been ringing . |
| 28 | During the trial the court heard that the vessel had been travelling from Libya to the Republic of Ireland with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA , the previous four having got through undetected . |
| 29 | Saying that the council had been pressing the Scottish Office for a long time to commit itself to a new bridge , the administration leader , John MacDougall , said while welcoming their decision , it was vital that the views of users would be taken into account . |
| 30 | However , now that the papers had been reporting the recent news of her husband 's return from Australia — apparently determined to impress his name and tough personality on the City of London — it was obviously about time that she came to a decision about her future . |