Example sentences of "had be [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had hurt him again , killing el-Meshad in Paris in 1980 , and frightening off the Italian companies who had been engaged to deliver hot cell boxes . |
| 2 | The wider operations were the responsibility of Task Force Atlantic , which included naval forces and troops which had been sent to reinforce Southern Command earlier in the year . |
| 3 | On the morning of 9 November , Sydney sighted Emden and pinned her to the shore of Keeling Island , one of the Cocos group , on which a German party had been landed to destroy essential cable and wireless installations connecting Australian , African and Indian telegraph systems . |
| 4 | On the nights previous to the murder he had been seen lurking outside party headquarters . |
| 5 | He had been trying to put inorganic chemistry into an intelligible form for his students at the University of St Petersburg , when ( in common with various contemporaries in various countries ) he realized that if the elements are set out in order of increasing atomic weight , they display periodicity : similar elements recur at regular intervals . |
| 6 | Although a number of influential parties had been trying to have New Year 's flay changed from the old style 13th of the month to 1st , the majority of the natives were loath to change and both days were partially observed . |
| 7 | At the conference a successful effort had been made to invite informed opinion not only from the educational community but from many interest groups within Nigeria , an initiative which met with a splendid response and which led , with the help of some skilful chairmanship and competent editing to the production of a useful and sensible working document . |
| 8 | The results which management felt had been achieved included improved productivity , reduced time to market for product innovations , decreased inventory and rapid and more effective decision making . |
| 9 | Beccaria 's ideas had been fated to win great praise but achieve less by way of practical influence in the running of penal systems . |
| 10 | The Frasque had been scheming to sponsor civil war in the system , setting world against world . |
| 11 | But even they had been known to take direct action when driven to desperation . |
| 12 | Although Keating , as Treasurer , was responsible for much of the current economic position — it was widely accepted that in 1987 he had allowed the economy to overheat , and had been forced to use high interest rates to cool it , thereby exacerbating the impact of the world recession — he was also widely perceived as the only Cabinet member with the experience and stature to provide an alternative to the leadership of Hawke . |
| 13 | Carrie 's parents and their youngest son Danny had been forced to find alternative accommodation and they ended up in one of the most dilapidated tenement blocks in Bermondsey . |
| 14 | In April and May of this year , the Junior Minister of Health , in April Tom announced from the shared platform with David , the Tory MP for Havant , but better known as a leading member of the Tory think tank , that regulations had been lifted to allow private capital to have free access to the N H S. |
| 15 | The Location of Offices Bureau , which for many years had been attempting to move commercial development out of London , was given the task of promoting office employment within the cities , including London itself . |
| 16 | DPP ( 1954 ) D , who was sexually impotent , was taunted about his impotence and kicked in the groin by a prostitute with whom he had been attempting to have sexual intercourse , whereupon he lost self-control and killed her . |
| 17 | We have already seen that not only was forest the natural primeval vegetation of Britain , but also that enormous areas had been felled to create arable land by the Bronze Age and that woodland management probably existed by the Neolithic period . |
| 18 | ‘ And then Crom Croich eats the hearts , ’ said the soldier , and Cathbad , who had been very busy all afternoon supervising the skinning and jointing of an ox and had been planning to serve braised ox heart for tomorrow 's midday meal , turned quite green and tried to remember if they had any salted pig left . |
| 19 | These had received pre-training in which the CS had been used to signal electric shock — pre-training designed to interfere with the final stage of appetitive conditioning . |
| 20 | The plan was also attacked by the Phalangist Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia which noted that Hezbollah guerrillas operating in the south had been allowed to retain heavy weaponry . |
| 21 | We have won the City 's support to raise the money , as we did for Staley and our other North American acquisitions — and as we would have done if we had been allowed to buy British Sugar . ’ |
| 22 | We had been told to wear thin summer frocks , although it was November . |
| 23 | This was the ultimate culmination of all the measures since the 1927 Cinematograph Film Act that had been designed to involve American finance in British films . |
| 24 | These students had also undergone a careful process of scrutiny , and most of them had been required to sit special matriculation examinations . |