Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those results would suggest that the other tumours were in fact new tumours , rather than persistent tumours which had been missed at the first cystoscopy . |
| 2 | Four cottage almshouses had been built at the eastern end of Strand-on-the-Green , in the first half of the eighteenth century , and dedicated ‘ for Ye use of Ye poor of Chiswick for ever ’ . |
| 3 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
| 4 | At the former , stone-robbing had effectively removed the crucial junction on the steeply sloping ground ; at the gate , it remained unclear whether the wall was already in existence or whether it had been constructed at the same time . |
| 5 | In an unexpected coda to a recent art saga , the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth announced in December that the original frame to Thomas Eakins 's ‘ The Swimming Hole ’ had been discovered at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , which donated it to the museum . |
| 6 | Tite and Donaldson closed the meeting with a half-hearted suggestion that a new competition could be organized among the prize-winners as had been done at the new library at Cambridge . |
| 7 | When we got in touch with the Colonel a surprisingly easy task , the military communications network superbly efficient — it turned out we had been landed at the wrong port . |
| 8 | Malcolm Kennedy had been jailed at the Old Bailey in September 1991 for allegedly kicking to death his cellmate , Patrick Quinn , at Hammersmith police station in west London early on Christmas Eve , 1990 . |
| 9 | The man who had been seen at the Black Friar with MacQuillan was Ron Barron . |
| 10 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |
| 11 | The gastric mucosa was inspected 0 and 180 minutes after ethanol had been given at the macroscopic , light , and scanning electron microscopic level . |
| 12 | The Billabong had been saved at the eleventh hour . |
| 13 | Eddy was working with mathematician Aram Boornazian on a study of measurements of the Sun 's diameter which had been made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory between 1836 and 1953 . |
| 14 | Mark Allen , aged 23 , of Stockwell , south London , had been acquitted at the Old Bailey on Thursday of murdering Victor Johnson , 57 , and his wife Audrey , 54 , but convicted of manslaughter , incitement to arson and attempting to pervert the course of justice . |
| 15 | He had been trained at the Douai seminary and had been taught the art not only of argument but also of secrecy . |
| 16 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 17 | The figure summarises information on timing of father 's employment in the nuclear industry and radiation exposure , in relation to the birth of his child , for the seven fathers ( four cases and three controls , of whom three and two respectively had been employed at the atomic weapons establishments in the area ) who were issued with dosimeters . |
| 18 | According to some reports Li 's speech had been revised at the last moment to bring it in line with the current Dengist campaign . |
| 19 | He had been writing at the big desk , and had come round it to examine the patient . |
| 20 | Representatives from the 51 member states , including 29 Presidents and 10 Prime Ministers , discussed an agenda which had been prepared at the 55th session of the OAU Council of Ministers on June 22-27 , also held in Dakar . |
| 21 | Representatives from the 51 member states , including 29 Presidents and 10 Prime Ministers , discussed an agenda which had been prepared at the 55th session of the OAU Council of Ministers on June 22-27 , also held in Dakar . |
| 22 | Nothing was said , but his Lieutenant knew he had been reprieved at the last minute . |
| 23 | The ban on commercial whaling , agreed by the IWC in 1982 with effect from 1985 [ see pp. 31828 ; 34717-18 ] , had been upheld at the 1990 IWC meeting in Noordwijk [ see p. 37630 ] . |
| 24 | Yet she felt , unable to help herself , a certain irrational joyfulness , as though an end and a beginning had been reached at the same time . |
| 25 | Agreement on the establishment of the AFTA had been reached at the fourth ASEAN summit held in Singapore in January 1992 [ see p. 38729 ] . |
| 26 | Precisely this eventuality had been considered at the highest level in the days just before the war ended . |
| 27 | Carrington was directed to a nearby farmhouse where ‘ a tall , dark German airman had been arrested at the sharp end of a pitchfork ’ to find only another crowd of excited neighbours and a labourer called Davie Maclean who was getting fed up with the whole affair . |
| 28 | The four named officers had been arrested at the same time as Beattie and had already appeared before ‘ Diplock ’ tribunals and been released . |
| 29 | Only aerial defence depicted in the film was the efforts of two Air Corps pilots , George Welch and Kenneth Taylor , in their P–40s which had been parked at the auxiliary field at Haleiwa and not received any attention from the Japanese . |
| 30 | Valenzuela 's only real friend was another recruit named Bratti Cornejo who had been drafted at the same time . |