Example sentences of "had be [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had disliked Colin since their first meeting ; the relationship , at a glance , had been fixed in the stereotyped antagonism between newly acquired fiancée and slightly disreputable old schoolmate and drinking partner . |
| 2 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 3 | Previously , they had been presented in the basic , unaffected prose of fanzines but knew they had officially arrived in the real world of music journalism when Neil Taylor asked them to pose outside Buckingham Palace . |
| 4 | The Scropes owned extensive estates in Wensleydale ( whose value had been increased in the late sixteenth century by mineral exploitation ) and at Langar in Nottinghamshire . |
| 5 | On 17 July 1991 D. began staying access with his mother , and the mother was telling the social services and the guardian ad litem who had been appointed in the juvenile court proceedings that her relationship with the father was over . |
| 6 | Loxford New Rectory was redbrick and had been built in the early sixties . |
| 7 | Even as the company got bigger , the familial atmosphere on which Virgin had been built in the early Seventies stayed strong , a flame that was kept alight by those who had been with Virgin since the earliest days , until it became a myth , self-perpetuating and strong enough to touch any newcomer to the organisation , strong enough to have even Richard Branson in its grip . |
| 8 | Isvik had been built in the Canadian Maritimes for an American millionaire who wanted to emulate Staff Sergeant Henry Larsen of the Royal Canadian Mounties who , in the years 1940 — 42 , had sailed the schooner St Roch from west to east through the North-West Passage . |
| 9 | It had been built in the late eighteenth century , two storeys high , shallow slate roof , red brick , seven windows set in ashlar along the upper floor , six below and the front door set centrally under a portico and pillared porch . |
| 10 | The machine , which had been built in the late nineteen sixties , had been delivered to Mrs Handy 's home on May the fourteenth after she had bought it through a relative . |
| 11 | We were standing in the baroque foyer of the hotel , which had been built in the great European hotel age during the peaceful years preceding the first World War . |
| 12 | Intelligence reports had indicated that such a reactor , the plans and equipment for which could have been supplied by China in 1990 [ see p. 38548 ] , had been built in the northern mountains . |
| 13 | Bewilderedly she struggled to remember the words Guy had been muttering , but they had been lost in the half-sleeping state which had dulled her mind , and , later , barely heard over the unfamiliar demands of newly awakened desire . |
| 14 | A further fifty had been lost in the old days , as they were swung into place by teams of sweating slaves ( and there had been slaves aplenty , in the first days of the Power ) and the great rings had gone crashing into the depths , dragging their unfortunate manipulators with them . |
| 15 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in answer to an earlier question of mine to his colleague at the Department of Employment , I was told that 25,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost in the past 12 months in Yorkshire and Humberside ? |
| 16 | The subject had been explored in The Trumpet-Major and stories such as ‘ The melancholy hussar of the German legion ’ but it now began to take shape as a verse drama of epic proportions in which the historical story of Napoleon 's rise and fall was set against a reflective commentary on man 's ‘ place in the universe ’ . |
| 17 | Also , of course , the ferment in the universities was in part a revolt against the technocratic role which they had been assigned in the Wilsonian scheme of things . |
| 18 | Reports at the turn of the year 1942–3 referring in the usual glowing terms of undiminished confidence of the people in ‘ its beloved Führer ’ and claiming that ‘ the person of the Führer was as always put beyond criticism ’ had been speaking in the conventional exaggerations of the regime 's apparatchiks . |
| 19 | Despite the immediate success of the new fleet of 125mph trains which brought new standards of safety and on-board comfort firstly on the Western Region services out of London ( Paddington ) and then on the East Coast main line from London ( King 's Cross ) , so much of what had been gained in the late 1970s was lost as the economic recession started to bite . |
| 20 | It was felt that whatever dramatic realism had been gained in the sociological breakthrough was now being sacrificed . |
| 21 | First , we had the idea one autumn of writing to all those who had been bereaved in the past three years and had had contact with the church . |
| 22 | But it has been shown that few of the innovations of this period were without precedent in the policies of earlier years , and that much of the crucial thinking about the form these new institutions should take had been done in the inter war period . |
| 23 | Works had been done in the adjoining street by the Commissioners for executing the Act , the expenses of which , under the provisions of their Act , they charged on the owners of the adjoining houses . |
| 24 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
| 25 | However , a preservation society had been formed in the mean time to come to am arrangement with the Company to secure its future operation . |
| 26 | It was announced on the same day that " political committees " had been formed in the Occupied Territories . |
| 27 | It had been noticed in the inner city that many vowel variables could be described in terms of sub-scales according to following consonantal environments ( as in table 4.5 ) ; we attempted , therefore , to operationalize this perception by distinguishing following environments roughly based on the sonority scales discussed by Taylor ( 1973 ) and others adapted to an ‘ allophonic length ’ dialect ( J. Milroy , 1976a ) . |
| 28 | No such brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration had been seen in the Soviet Union since at least the early 1960s , strengthening rumours that the action , directed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs rather than by Georgian officials , might have been covertly encouraged by Kremlin conservatives intent on discrediting Gorbachev and the policy of perestroika . |
| 29 | In 1613 , for example , the king married his daughter Elizabeth to Frederick of the Palatinate , one of the leading figures of European Calvinism ; similarly , in 1618 four representatives of the English church attended the Synod of Dort , the conference called to resolve the bitter dispute which had been raging in the United Provinces over the doctrine of predestination . |
| 30 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |