Example sentences of "[pron] had be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’
2 It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents .
3 The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V.
4 The formal support came from the Signet Office , which had been given definite shape in the fifteenth century .
5 The resolution , which had been given provisional approval on Tuesday night , declared the Congress 's support for fundamental economic reform and pledged there would not be a return to the Communist administrative-command system .
6 A United States bill prolonging the provisions of the US aid and development programme known as the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) which had been given legislative expression in the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 [ see pp. 31565-71 ; 32622 ; 33849-50 ] was passed by President Bush on Aug. 20 , 1990 .
7 This focus on reconstruction put the CFLN in step with the resistance movements and the CNR , which had been discussing postwar renewal with increasing urgency ever since the American landings in North Africa .
8 On top of a cavity in the stone in which had been placed contemporary records and coins was placed a plate with the inscription :
9 We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House .
10 Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim .
11 As a result , two other trains from the North-East , which had been making additional stops in York at 7.34 and 7.53 , will no longer do so .
12 On Feb. 9 Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa announced that the security services had uncovered a fundamentalist group which had been compiling false reports on the human rights situation in Egypt to tarnish the country 's reputation abroad .
13 On Aug. 13 the government published a list of television companies which had been awarded official concessions and were thus entitled to continue broadcasting for the next six years beyond an Aug. 23 deadline .
14 Its chief executive , Neville Bain , said he is seeing many more inquiries from retailers currently buying from Far Eastern producers , while some continental suppliers which had been undercutting British producers are being forced to increase prices .
15 She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately .
16 She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust .
17 A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action .
18 She had been experiencing considerable feelings of grief about her husband and had been able to cry on occasions .
19 She had been named regional marketing services manager and expected the job to be confirmed .
20 Perhaps Ruth had done something especially stunning , as when she had been made chief maid of honour to the school 's May Queen .
21 She had been working full time in a local factory for the past 8 years and usually enjoyed good relationships with her friends .
22 She had been noting various titles during Joyce 's discourse ; there was a new book about bats that Edward would want , and one or two things she would like to get hold of herself — the sole perquisite of this trade was a surreptitious early pick of incoming titles before they went on the shelves .
23 Dr Henry Sacheverell was a High Anglican cleric who had been delivering violent attacks on Dissenters , occasional conformists and Low Churchmen for several years .
24 On Feb. 16 the Serbian LC further demanded that what it termed " illegal immigrants " from Albania should be repatriated , and that those who had been granted Yugoslavian citizenship should be stripped of their rights if they had acted against the constitutional order .
25 Nezzar , who had been appointed armed forces Chief of Staff in November 1988 following the previous month 's disturbances [ see p. 36506 ] , was replaced in that post by Brig.
26 On Oct. 22 Mohammad Ali Nazaran , the Iranian representative on the tripartite Iranian-Iraqi-ICRC commission charged with supervising the exchange of prisoners , demanded that Iraq " release immediately " Mohammad Javad Tondguyan , who had been appointed Iranian Oil Minister in September 1980 [ see p. 30630 ] and captured by an Iraqi military patrol shortly after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war [ see p. 31008 ] .
27 Hammadi , a Shia , who had been appointed Prime Minister in March [ see p. 38083 ] , was reported to have favoured greater political liberalization and a closer adherence to UN resolutions to end Iraq 's international isolation .
28 The resignation on July 29 of Vincenzo Scotti ( DC ) , who had been appointed Foreign Minister four weeks earlier , prompted widespread criticism .
29 Later that month , Dr. Harvey Goldsmith who had been appointed medical officer to the Poor Law Institution in 1900 , resigned .
30 In March 1991 Mohammed Shafi Qureshi was appointed as the new state Governor , replacing B. Satya Narain Reddy , the Governor of Uttar Pradesh , who had been given temporary responsibility for Bihar in February following the dismissal of Governor Mohammad Yunus Saleem [ see pp. 38006 ; 38102 ] .
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