Example sentences of "had [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the borders had officially been closed on May 2 , 1989 , they had since been crossed by large numbers of Somali refugees , some of whom were now returning home . |
| 2 | Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia . |
| 3 | If the household was identical to the register entry , the elector on whose account the address had been selected had effectively been selected at random , and was therefore nominated for interview . |
| 4 | The offer had effectively been rejected by Palestinian negotiators at the April bilateral round . |
| 5 | Moreover , for large numbers of individuals the new per capita charge represented a considerable increase over their equivalent share of the rates which had hitherto been based on notional values of the homes which they occupied . |
| 6 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 7 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) was heavily defeated in two by-elections , on Feb. 9 and on March 5 , in what had hitherto been regarded as safe LDP constituencies . |
| 8 | It sounds to a man 's understanding as if women had hitherto been kept in disagreeable subjection to the stronger and sterner sex . |
| 9 | At the IMF 's suggestion , the government was to consider introducing burley as a cash crop for small farmers ; production had hitherto been restricted to commercial estates . |
| 10 | It is true that there were still considerable patches of open field left in some parts of the country : at Castor , which adjoined Helpston on the south , the fields remained open until 1898 : but the Helpston fields had all been enclosed by 1820 . |
| 11 | The new plants were defined as those which had begun operations after 1980 while the older organisations had all been established before 1975 . |
| 12 | By the eighteenth century these four or five classes had grown to twelve : the and classes had all been divided into two , for example , and other classes had been added . |
| 13 | It was possible that , like many of the casual spectators , the key members of the crew had all been frozen into temporary immobility by the looming presence of the ovoid , but Rostov was inclined to suspect the convenience of such a coincidence . |
| 14 | And the buildings looked as derelict as if they had all been lifted by some force and dropped again . |
| 15 | Swirling snowclouds and rain strengthened the illusion that there was no outside world anymore , and that they had all been transported to some frozen Hell . |
| 16 | Only a few years earlier , the new universities had all been started through academic planning boards which established in general terms their objectives … |
| 17 | A corresponding survey , carried out in Sweden in 1981 , found that orientation courses had only been evaluated in 8 libraries of 34 , one-third of the libraries had evaluated courses in manual information retrieval and about half the libraries with courses in computerized information retrieval had carried out some form of evaluation . |
| 18 | Pennethorne incorporated this building , which had only been completed in 1832 , into his scheme by adding another storey and possibly linking it by an arch to the Foreign Office . |
| 19 | He said that the message that " environment means business " had only been understood by few companies , and that small and medium-sized ones in particular had been slow to recognize the opportunities . |
| 20 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 21 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 22 | Benjamin 's mother was lying paralysed in Shoreditch Workhouse even as the portrait was being executed , and he himself had only been saved from abject poverty after his father 's premature death by the generous good offices of his uncle , Samuel Hasted . |
| 23 | The Roman Emperor Constantine had only been converted in 312 , and not till 433 did St Patrick go to Ireland . |
| 24 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 25 | Plenty of them had only been raped over one period of 24 hours but never less than by six or seven men . |
| 26 | A typical example is the 1978 Tremadoc Guidebook comment after the first ascent of Fingerlicker in 1975 , where alone in that guide it was pointed out that the route had only been climbed after two ‘ Yo-Yo 's ’ ( according to the 1975 definition of a Yo-Yo ) . |
| 27 | What 's more , she was on top of the Poll , and had obviously been supported by many men members . |
| 28 | Both pieces of equipment had obviously been rebuilt with meticulous and loving care and shone with glossy new paint of the dark green picked out with gold which I always associate with the more impressive railway engines . |
| 29 | A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building . |
| 30 | The national church organization had long been accepted in central Europe : bishops were the crown 's natural advisers , the crown 's civil servants . |