Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secretary of the Commission was Geoffrey Cockerill , who had been Private Secretary to Boyle and , for a short while , Crosland . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister told the Head of the Civil Service ( who was still nominally in charge of the Cabinet Office , too , to avoid a conflict of status between Brook and General Sir Hastings Ismay , who had been Military Secretary to the Cabinet throughout the war and did not leave Whitehall till 1947 ) what he wanted as the ingredients of reform : |
| 3 | There had been strong opposition to the scheme from the national park authority , Cumbria County Council , English Nature and the Council for National Parks . |
| 4 | NICHOLAS Baring ( above ) , chairman of Commercial Union , told the annual meeting yesterday there had been minimal disturbance to the insurer 's services following the IRA bomb last Friday . |
| 5 | In Latin America , in North and South Africa , in some parts of Asia , and in the Australasian colonies , there had been tentative beginnings to railway-building in the middle of the century , but the great explosion of lines was not to come until its last decade . |
| 6 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 7 | There had been occasional mutterings to himself over his cigarettes , but nothing spoken to them . |
| 8 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 9 | There had been considerable hostility to the new ministry since its establishment in July [ see p. 38995 ] . |
| 10 | In 1985 , there had been local opposition to US moves to find base sites on the islands as an alternative to the Philippines . |
| 11 | He had been Private Secretary to my uncle when he was Viceroy , and later Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier of India before he went to the Sudan . |
| 12 | He had been chief engineer to the Central Electricity Board , and would have preferred the division of duties to have left the control of generation and transmission to the ex-CEB engineers and himself . |