Example sentences of "had [adv] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 2 | Proposals by Dr Robert Rentoul for the compulsory sterilization of the unfit had already been given short shrift by the BMA in 1904 , on the grounds that they were contrary to medical ethics . |
| 3 | By 1920 the government had already been giving public support to 7,667,769 children in need . |
| 4 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 5 | The 22-year-old , in a coma since he was injured during the FA Cup semi-final at the Sheffield Wednesday ground on April 15 , 1989 , had not been given artificial help to survive since February 22 . |
| 6 | In the Federal Court , Beaumont J. held that the Cabinet decision to nominate Stage 2 for listing was void since the owners of the mining rights had not been accorded natural justice before the decision to list the area . |
| 7 | But the CLE had not been practising racial discrimination . |
| 8 | It had been a very different story with the earlier sell-off of the hotels where the managers ' interest had not been shown proper respect . |
| 9 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 10 | I had always been singing energetic music from the time I was just a little girl , and when I started getting songs like Sweet Nothings , I loved those songs , and I wanted to sing them . |
| 11 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 12 | Lily and the boy were standing by an old iron playhorse which had once been painted dark green but now was blotched with rust . |
| 13 | It had also been granted Special Development Orders by the government in order to bypass planning permission for its investigations . |
| 14 | While putting these changes in place , the BBC had also been developing local radio . |
| 15 | In its less dogmatic and more amateur way the ILP had also been giving serious consideration to the United Front . |
| 16 | Unlike previous texts , this book made an unreserved attempt to show how the phenomena of physical geography could be rationalized and perhaps given new significance and new coherence in terms of systems theory , and ‘ by avoiding the usual pot pourri of information about the earth and its atmosphere which had traditionally been termed physical geography ’ it was devoted to the identification and analysis of some of the more important systematic relationships with which modern physical geographers are concerned . |
| 17 | One of his crosses was Perdita Macleod , who had now been working full time for Ricky for nine months and felt she knew everything . |
| 18 | IBM had indeed been making OSI product announcements since summer 1985 , as had its rivals , notably DEC . |
| 19 | Patients who had initially been given chenodeyxholic acid as dissolution treatment had a significantly lower recurrence rate than those who had been treated , originally , with ursodeoxycholic acid ( 17.8 ( 5.8 ) % at 42 months by LTA compared with 67.1 ( 16.4 ) % ; p<0.05 ) . |
| 20 | Some reports suggested that the invasion was supported by large numbers of the estimated 400,000 Palestinian workers in Kuwait , all of whom had previously been denied Kuwaiti citizenship despite constituting the backbone of the country 's middle-management structure . |
| 21 | He was chairman of the Friends of Glenalmond and , having been a strong supporter of the Territorial Army , had recently been appointed Honorary Colonel of 32 ( Scottish ) Signal Regiment ( V ) . |
| 22 | On 26 August 1823 a new Governor , accompanied by a regiment of the Seventh Infantry , was sent to Madeira by King João VI , who had recently been proclaimed absolute monarch . |
| 23 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 24 | ‘ A prisoner , who it was alleged had recently been refused Compassionate Home Leave to visit a dangerously ill relative , had already been allowed three visits over a period of three weeks . |
| 25 | In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will . |