Example sentences of "[noun sg] had be [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not think it necessary to tell him that the University administration had been obliged to circulate all members of staff with a memorandum asking them , if they had been on strike , to volunteer the information ( since there was no other way of finding out ) so that their pay could be docked . |
| 2 | But the test itself was also changed , from gross indecency , which like the deprave-and-corrupt test had been adequate to catch most child pornography , to the lesser test of indecency , the precise meaning of which is left to the jury to assess according to their own standards of propriety for children or young people . |
| 3 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 4 | Hitherto the government had been able to thwart all attempts by opposition leaders to form new parties , although the right to do so was formally enshrined in the Constitution . |
| 5 | What remained of the gardens was now given over to the university 's botany department , and so the building had been able to retain much of its outward character . |
| 6 | By 1989 JET had been able to exceed each of these values individually but had not achieved them simultaneously . |
| 7 | Over the course of two months , Ben had started to eat at meal-times and his mother had been able to introduce more variety into his diet and increase the quantity offered . |