Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explaining their resignations in terms of the desire to " recover [ their ] freedom " , Wade said that he and the other PDS ministers had been excluded from government action and had only been party to decisions over " trivial " issues . |
| 2 | Places such as Ceylon , Colombo , Port Said , the Suez Canal , had only been names in textbooks and beyond her wildest dreams . |
| 3 | Southeast of this elongated zone these sediments had already been overthrust by Precambrian and Palaeozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Blue Ridge and Piedmont provinces . |
| 4 | But it had just been part of Isabelle 's patient determination to make Sabine as bilingual as possible . |
| 5 | There had always been tension between fear of the process of dying and hope of a happy hereafter . |
| 6 | But he bore no malice , and on the way back to the hotel gave me quite a run-down on his cousin Ena , who he said had once been Queen of Spain . |
| 7 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 8 | Mr Stillings , 59 , had been Rector of Trefnant for 18 months and had formerly been curate at Rhosymedre and Minera , Vicar of Bagillt and Rector of Llanfynydd . |
| 9 | No less than five of them , men like Robinson and Locke , had also been members of parliament . |
| 10 | Trainer Paul Cole had also been second in Ireland 's big race on Saturday when well-backed Bright Generation was outgunned by Clive Brittain 's flying filly Sayyedati at The Curragh . |
| 11 | There had also been problems with leaflets for Newcastle North and Central , Redcar , Gateshead and North Durham . |
| 12 | There had also been talk of Wishart and Minton visiting America which , like Oscar Wilde , they hoped to take by storm . |
| 13 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 14 | Daniels , the first layman to become Headmaster of Stockport Grammar School , was a Cambridge graduate and a first-class Mathematician ( fifth Wrangler in 1891 ) , and had previously been Head of Physics and Head of Mathematics at Nottingham High School . |
| 15 | They met at a café near the opera , and Arnoux urged his political chief Albert Sarraut to meet this remarkable young man ( Sarraut had previously been Governor-General of Indo-China ) . |
| 16 | Sinan ( Emir Hasan ) , who appears to have served continuously from 959/1552 to Shawwal 964/August 1557 and who had previously been kadi of Aleppo : It is worth noting that the kadiliks in the list are divided into two distinct grades — though if Hezarfen is right , they do not seem to correspond , at least in the way one would expect , to " 300- and 500-akce " kadiliks — and it is no$ impossible that the order as given above represents the order of precedence , with Istanbul at the top and Baghdad at the bottom . |
| 17 | Another reader brought in the 1960 European Cup semi-final programme between Dundee and Milan to underline one of the connections Dundee manager Bob Shankly had previously been gaffer at Stirling . |
| 18 | There were related changes in the state sphere and a wholesale ‘ inter-nationalization ’ and associated ‘ de-industrialization ’ of areas and enterprises which had previously been strongholds of Fordism . |
| 19 | And in Sylvia s case there had certainly been causes for distress . |
| 20 | The County Council dismissed the charges , saying both the Corporation and the IIRS were making routine checks on Raybestos Manhattan 's waste and there had never been evidence of asbestos in the consignments that had been checked . |