Example sentences of "had be [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 2 | This year BGS enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site on Triassic sandstones where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 3 | The matter had been raised in a petition to the parliament of 1305 , but was only confirmed now , presumably because , the papal see then being vacant , Edward was waiting to employ the statute as a lever on the new pope . |
| 4 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 5 | The judge found that the police had been engaged in a trick or deceit , had not acted as agents provocateurs or incited crime , had provided no market which would not have been available elsewhere , and had had grounds to suspect that each appellant had committed an offence by the time when the first sale by him was transacted , but that he had not been cautioned . |
| 6 | Ramos proposed that the CPP-ML — which , through its military wing , the New People 's Army ( NPA ) , had been engaged in a guerrilla war with the government since 1968 — should be allowed to " compete freely , openly and peacefully in the political , economic and social arena " . |
| 7 | Among those released were Romulo Kintanar , the alleged head of the CPP 's military wing , the New People 's Army ( NPA ) , which had been engaged in a guerrilla war with the government since 1968 . |
| 8 | Only a quarter of the French believed this , and yet their government had been engaged in a series of clashes with the Reagan administration on issues ranging from star wars to Nicaragua . |
| 9 | Like the hon. Gentleman , I well recall the Second Reading debate of the Shops Bill 1986 which followed upon the discussions and deliberations of the Auld committee which , since as long ago as 1985 , had been engaged in a series of debates about Sunday trading . |
| 10 | It was as if menacing music had been played in a film , accompanying a scene of innocent happiness . |
| 11 | The security firm Chubb said yesterday that further copies of the document had been discovered in a West Country shopping precinct . |
| 12 | " Mouses making buns , " Deborah had said the afternoon before when flour and raisins had been discovered in a corner . |
| 13 | ( A claim by the US military that 50 kg of cocaine had been discovered in a house used by Noriega for voodoo rituals was retracted on Jan. 22 when it was admitted that the substance was in fact tamales , a central American foodstuff , wrapped in banana leaves . |
| 14 | The Manchu also wore a flowing cloak , and his hair had been dressed in a style which was similar to that normally adopted by the Altun . |
| 15 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 16 | After Enkidu 's death Gilgamesh wandered far and wide in his grief encountering among others the proverbial survivor of the great flood , Utnapishtim , who told him how he had been warned in a dream by a god of the imminent deluge , and instructed to build a great boat into which he was to take the seed of all living creatures . |
| 17 | Wiltshire , a known drug dealer had been stabbed in a fight at a flat in Conduit Street in Gloucester . |
| 18 | He opened by expressing his gratitude to all present that the discussions during the previous two days , ‘ though at times exhilaratingly frank ’ , had been conducted in a spirit of friendship and the desire to see good prevail . |
| 19 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 20 | Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks . |
| 21 | They had been moving in a group , or trying to : actually , they had straggled widely at times . |
| 22 | It was understandably difficult for those whose views had been formed in a period of high unemployment to shift them radically and swiftly . |
| 23 | In a religiously-divided country such as the Netherlands , trade unions had been formed in a period of strong Protestant and Catholic religious revival when a socialist trade union movement was regarded as implying a secular view of society . |
| 24 | The Consultative Council ( majlis al-istishari ) had been announced in a HCS decree of Feb. 4 . |
| 25 | Minutes before three youths had been seen in a car driving at high speed … as they crossed a junction they collided with another car and spun into Mr James . |
| 26 | The government on Dec. 4 announced the arrest of an unspecified number of people who , it said , had been implicated in a coup attempt on Nov. 27 . |
| 27 | Fateh-ul-Mulk had been poisoned in a court intrigue well before 1857 , but his six-year-old son , the Princess 's father , had survived both this and the Mutiny . |
| 28 | The lesson had been given in a lay-by near Kendal on a soaking wet afternoon in February with an audience of coach-trippers on day release from the Satanic Mills . |
| 29 | A plaintiff could proceed by means of the actio iudicati if he wished , although this was available only where the judgment had been given in a sum of money . |
| 30 | This became for cognitio the standard form of execution where judgment had been given in a sum of money . |