Example sentences of "[conj] had [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It meant that that summer , despite the pressure of finals , I was able to enjoy human company and gain succour from it , in a way that had previously been denied to me . |
| 2 | Lowland fear of the Highland Scots was another powerful motive for Union , but the effect was to give eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotsmen opportunities in the British Empire that had previously been closed to them . |
| 3 | But it seems more likely that ninth-century landlords , still using ( why not ? ) the old terminology of the Roman fiscal system , were exacting on their own account dues that had once been owed to the state , rather than acting as tax-collectors on the state 's behalf . |
| 4 | It operated also with regard to lands and rights that had once been given to God or the saints : the gift could never be withdrawn or diminished without sin . |
| 5 | Standing in a corner of the half-landing was an old mirror with chipped edges : a tall narrow sheet of glass that had once been pinned to the inside of a wardrobe door . |
| 6 | The reality represented the truth about movie-making itself , and a final shattering of all the illusions that had ever been presented to a cinema audience , for , seemingly , he had not realized that he had built into his masterpiece a piece of self-destruct mechanism . |
| 7 | It was the best excuse that had ever been offered to a radio reporter in search of an interview ; ‘ No , I 'm sorry , I ca n't speak to you . |
| 8 | The boldness of this interpretation lies in allowing the validity of the trust even though it had not been addressed to the daughter and had not been intended to be paid by her . |
| 9 | He had been called up briefly in 1940 , and had not been returned to School for very long before his death , which came as a great shock . |
| 10 | The accountants ' error lay in receiving and acting upon a further claim which had not been in their terms of reference and had not been notified to the other party . |
| 11 | From 1966 to 1969 he was a fellow of Balliol College , Oxford , and had just been appointed to a readership at the time of his death . |
| 12 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 13 | We met in Bologna and while discussing the painting I informed him that the original had turned up at Wildenstein 's in New York , and had recently been sold to a New York private collector and that an article of mine was in proof , publishing the New York picture as the original . |
| 14 | One lady who was working in the Smithy and had recently been directed to Wolverton , kept pestering him for one , and at times was quite verbal about it . |
| 15 | Among those who were released , 19 of them serving life sentences , was a prominent lawyer , Pap Cheyassin Secka , who was among those found guilty of complicity in the abortive coup of 1981 and had initially been sentenced to death [ see pp. 31165-66 ; 31684 ; 32957 ] . |
| 16 | A mountainous enclave of about 4,400 square kilometres , Nagorno-Karabakh had originally been assigned to Armenia but had then been transferred to the jurisdiction of its traditionally Muslim neighbour . |
| 17 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |