Example sentences of "had be [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only good news to offset my ‘ disgrace ’ was that Father had proved such a success at Marconi 's that he had been appointed an assistant manager in the research department dealing with radio materials . |
| 2 | The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable . |
| 3 | The year before , she and the Prince of Wales had been sent an unusual gift . |
| 4 | He had been using an ingenious method . |
| 5 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 6 | In March 1990 , Miklos Nemeth , then Prime Minister , alleged during a parliamentary debate on the January 1990 Danubegate scandal [ see p. 37194 ] that former leaders of the HSWP with the help of the hard-line Czechoslovak and Romanian regimes had been plotting an armed takeover of power in Hungary in the summer of 1989 . |
| 7 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 8 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 9 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 10 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 11 | Anthony John Allen , aged 23 , of Huyton , Liverpool , was cleared by the appeal judges , along with William Willis , aged 23 , who had been given an 11-year sentence for his alleged part in the attack three years ago on a Southampton publican , his wife , and a barmaid . |
| 12 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 13 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
| 14 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 15 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 16 | She was a dignified octogenarian aristocrat who had been made an honorary Chief-Corporal in the Regiment since she had served with it in World War Two . |
| 17 | He had been elected an Honorary Fellow in 1850 , and it is clear that Hope 's wealth and position were still of sufficient value to the profession that he became the only amateur , apart from Grey , to be the Institute 's President . |
| 18 | Mr Justice Otton was told they regretted helping to give currency to the allegation that John Major and Miss Latimer had been conducting an adulterous relationship . |
| 19 | He had been receiving an extraordinary number of new birds from Elizabeth 's brothers , Stephen and Charles Coxen , who had emigrated to Australia some years before . |
| 20 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |
| 21 | On May 7 the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry claimed that Armenia had been waging an undeclared war on Azerbaijan , and that in over 300 cross-border attacks since the beginning of the year a total of 61 Azerbaijanis had been killed . |
| 22 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 23 | Although Dmitrii Miliutin 's predecessor as War Minister , General Sukhozanet , had been considered an unimaginative choice for the position at the time of his appointment in 1856 , he had instigated or been obliged to accept " Literally hundreds of changes " in the conduct of military affairs . |
| 24 | I had been allocated an efficient back-up team from the Civil Service : Jane Benham ( promoted near the end and replaced by Martin Howarth ) , Michael Phipps and Jenny Bacon , all of whom impressed me with their loyalty to me and their diplomatic skills . |
| 25 | When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp . |
| 26 | That invention had been awarded an English patent but B did not mention that fact to the plaintiffs , and after he left he acquired it . |
| 27 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 28 | While he had been talking an Arabic serving-woman had silently entered the room . |
| 29 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 30 | At the time ASEAN was created in August 1967 Soviet officials had been anticipating an American attempt to construct a broader alliance to replace the decrepit SEATO . |