Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [be] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the special character combinations had been replaced the file was iteratively refined . |
| 2 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |
| 3 | Up to then the UK and Irish entries had been fighting a tooth and nail contest . |
| 4 | After a dress rehearsal for a Symphony Hour show , I suggested , as producer , that in the adagio movement of the main symphonic item the violins had been taking the tempo slightly too fast . |
| 5 | Since mid century , philanthropists and social reformers had been urging the removal of the population of the inner-city slums to the more salubrious outskirts of the city . |
| 6 | The patrol of four unarmoured Land Rovers had been testing the safety of a Serb-held route to the northern town of Tuzla . |
| 7 | The engineers had been investigating a fault with overhead cables in the field at Bromyard in Herefordshire . |
| 8 | One dealer of the author 's acquaintance would keep telling his clients : " There 's been a lot of buying this morning " when what he really meant was the dealers had been selling the stock all morning . |
| 9 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 10 | One of Chaovalit 's many Cabinet responsibilities had been to head the government 's Counter Corruption Commission ( CCC ) . |
| 11 | Department officials had been monitoring the convoy which spent about two weeks at a roadside halt near Ardglass before slipping into Downpatrick overnight . |
| 12 | The Dorset industry must have continued from its Pre-conquest days up to the moment of expansion ; its potters had been supplying the army in the middle of the first century , as is evident from Waddon Hill ( Webster , 1960 , 93 , 95 ; 1965 , 142 ) . |
| 13 | The officers had been plotting a map , in changing colours , to show how the contras were fading out of Nicaragua ; suddenly it reversed its trend , and they were back . |
| 14 | Ross Chisholm , head of local planning and transport , said officers had been studying the effect of the traffic restrictions since they were introduced . |
| 15 | This act left him with an interest in the company that was for most practical purposes worthless since the previous practice among the three member-directors had been to take the money out of the firm in the form of directors ' fees rather than shareholders ' dividends . |
| 16 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 17 | All day the riddle of the wrecked laundry basket in the showers had been exercising the teacher 's faculty of deduction . |
| 18 | IF THE inflation figures had been published a couple of days earlier , the Labour party would no doubt have made the most of a fall which was far short of expectations . |
| 19 | The stretchers had been brought the couple of hundred yards from the hospital . |
| 20 | On Nov. 16 he testified before a parliamentary committee that orders had been given a month previously to freeze " Operation Gladio " . |
| 21 | Park official Fred Haala said some trippers had been harassing the crocodile . |
| 22 | The craftsmen of the local Guilds had been performing a play on the Feast of Corpus Christi for eighty years . |
| 23 | All hospital patients had been given a diagnosis of primary depression uncomplicated by any underlying condition such as alcoholism , but were also given a full clinical interview ( PSE ) by the research psychiatrist . |
| 24 | This result was not unexpected , given the relatively short period these patients had been following the gluten free diet before entering the protocol . |
| 25 | The youths had been holding a vigil for student Quaddus Ali , who remains ‘ critical but stable ’ after reportedly being attacked by a gang of white youths in Stepney , east London , on Wednesday . |
| 26 | Finally , up to one in five known heroin users had been injecting the drug during 1985–6 , a worrying increase on the previous year . |
| 27 | On Sept. 2 All-India Radio reported that Pakistani forces had been shelling the Punch sector in Jammu and Kashmir since Aug. 26 and that a woman and two children had been killed . |
| 28 | Security forces had been clearing the area when the bomb exploded . |
| 29 | Mr Poole said there was evidence that some ambulance workers in the shires had been breaching the ban at the request of managers . |
| 30 | During her time in Rhodesia , Army magazines had been celebrating the centenary of Booth 's own marriage and however dedicated his soldiers very few of the single women did not chafe against his restrictions when opportunity presented . |