Example sentences of "had be [verb] [prep] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First George Escolmbe , an Oxford graduate , had been appointed on 14th September 1691 , and then on 20th January 1693 the Goldsmiths " unanimously agreed that William Dickens shall be appointed schoolmaster of the said town in the room of Timothy Dobson " . |
| 2 | A new head of History had been appointed for next term to release the pastoral coordinator from a ‘ caretaker ’ role as head of History , a scale 3 second in department for English had been appointed by promoting an existing member of the department and an early retirement application had been granted . |
| 3 | In 1987 the Long Gilt future accounted for more than half the trades on LIFFE but , while still trading strongly , it had been relegated to third place by 1990 , having been outstripped by both the new German Government bond ( " Bund " ) contract and the Short Sterling contract in importance . |
| 4 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 5 | The four persons against whom the murder charges had been announced on 6th January 1973 had likewise been travelling in a motor car in which an unlicensed pistol had been found . |
| 6 | No part of it had been exercised at 31st March 1991 . |
| 7 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 8 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 9 | The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year , but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993 . |
| 10 | The new vessel was one of the last ships to be built at Philips Shipyard , Dartmouth and had been launched on 14th February , 1962 by Lady Crombie , wife of the Chairman of the Board . |
| 11 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 12 | The show , which cost the band $100,000 , had been postponed from last May after objections from Seattle 's city council . |
| 13 | Only the owner was excluded from the common knowledge at Kempton that day : that her horse had been wrestled into second place by an apprentice who could n't anticipate the obvious . |
| 14 | On 19th May Edward moved into the Tower of London to await his Coronation , which had been set for 22nd June . |
| 15 | But they had been issued with first class tickets . |