Example sentences of "[noun sg] had be [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
| 2 | In their study of 115 rape victims , Burgess and Holmstrom found that vaginal penetration by the penis had been accompanied by forced fellatio in 22 per cent . |
| 3 | The three parties had disagreed on major issues and the coalition had been undermined by national discontent over recent austerity measures . |
| 4 | It claimed that very few of those who had died in the violence had been killed by traditional weapons , that 75 per cent of deaths were caused by bullets and 20 per cent by hacking with weapons which could not be described as traditional . |
| 5 | Unlike its neighbours which were built of local stone , the vicarage had been encased in grey stucco early in its life . |
| 6 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 7 | This wave of opposition had been echoed in Muslim and Third World countries . |
| 8 | Not that the air was very bad anywhere now since most of the roof had been removed by round shot and considerable holes had been made in the walls . |
| 9 | All the lead from the roof had been stolen by official vandals , and bushes were growing through the floor of the entrance hall . |
| 10 | The success of the party 's resistance to Home Rule had been founded on absolute faith that it was the most important issue , but by 1914 this was no longer the case . |
| 11 | When her body was discovered on waste ground in Hertfordshire her neck had been crushed with great force . |
| 12 | Here , it seemed , some labour had been applied to physical comforts , although there was little evidence of efficient housekeeping . |
| 13 | This was particularly so where , as here , the applicant had been charged with serious disciplinary offences which would result in a loss of liberty . |
| 14 | In addition the gas industry had been investing in expensive pipeline and other transportation systems to import gas from Canada , Mexico and Algeria , in anticipation of a continuing supply shortfall which the Natural Gas Policy Act effectively removed , in the short term at least . |
| 15 | It was only some years later , when the over-expansion he had forecast had materialised , and some of the more obscurantist leaders of the industry had been replaced by new men , that the industry came to terms with the problem ( see pp. 212–17 , below ) . |
| 16 | Secondly , the case became representative of the whole thrift scandal , where the newly deregulated savings and loan industry had been pillaged through ruthless speculation and outright fraud . |
| 17 | A total of 44,000 Soviet troops plus vehicles and materiel had been withdrawn from eastern Germany between Jan. 1 and May 12 , 1991 ; a further 22,000 service personnel left in June . |
| 18 | Kendall never claimed , of course , that this method could ever be accurate enough to pinpoint where the archaeologist should sink his spade , but rather that it could help in choosing between a number of possible locations to which the search had been restricted on other grounds . |
| 19 | ‘ It worked for me , ’ Feherty said , confessing that he had not seen the back nine of the course before because his practice had been restricted by bad light . |
| 20 | Earlier , this obsession had been carried to absurd lengths with the determined pursuit of Sarah Tisdall and Clive Ponting . |
| 21 | The rendering of figures in action had been developed in pedimental sculpture , and perhaps extended occasionally to an independent group in the later sixth century : a fine marble torso from the Acropolis , under life-size , These us fighting one of his opponents , seems not to be from a pediment . |
| 22 | They were concerned about the cruel manner of the uplift of the children , and that such action had been taken without proper investigation . |
| 23 | The report , citing diplomatic sources , said that the deal had been signed in late 1990 and provided for Myanma to pay at least half the price in rice and timber . |
| 24 | Last year I examined the way in which bone mass screening had been assessed in published work . |
| 25 | A liaison had been struck with Spanish designer Juan de la Cierva for G & J Weir to licence build his autogiros . |
| 26 | In the second appeal the contemnor had been prohibited by injunctive orders , issued with an attached power of arrest under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 , from assaulting , molesting or harassing his wife or from entering the premises where she lived . |
| 27 | The words and their phrasing left no doubt that the princess had been placed under considerable pressure to speak out publicly for the first time since her marriage to Prince Charles . |
| 28 | This portfolio had been held by Prime Minister Charles Haughey since October 1990 , when he dismissed Brian Lenihan ( whose successor as Deputy Prime Minister was John Wilson — see p. 37868 ) . |
| 29 | The book of poetry had been produced from real trees and the pages had a feel of genuine paper . |
| 30 | His 1932 work had been greeted with great interest and in 1958 he rightly decided that the news from ZETA merited a press conference . |