Example sentences of "[noun] had [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | History might have been different if Cleopatra 's nose had been longer or Napoleon had been taller . |
| 2 | Once again , Allah had been generous . ’ |
| 3 | It appeared to make no difference whether the borough had been charge-capped . |
| 4 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 5 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
| 6 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 7 | LIBF director Brian Bradford said this week that demand for stands had been considerable and the fair was already close to being a sell-out . |
| 8 | that the LEA guidelines had been inadequate ; |
| 9 | The Association had been first instituted in 1380 and given the status of Corporation in 1555 by Mary of Lorraine who founded Trinity Hospital . |
| 10 | Members of the University Lecturers Association had been due to take part in a second one-day strike at the university in Aberdeen . |
| 11 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 12 | Darwin and Spencer had been wrong to argue that women were in a state of arrested development . |
| 13 | On the field at Culloden , the last of the Boyd clan horse had been disarrayed and the strength reduced to footsoldiering . |
| 14 | The fight was broken up by the housemaster , whose ears had been open in anticipation for some days . |
| 15 | Gradually she had come to terms with it , accepted it as a fact of life , though the grief had been longer in going and the sadness was still sometimes there , an echo in the night . |
| 16 | Richard Rowntree , the chairman of the bench , told Mr Smith that if they had taken the view that the ill treatment of his stock had been deliberate , their decision would have been a lot different . |
| 17 | He had been employed before 1917 in the archives of the foreign ministry and one of his ancestors on his mother 's side had been Russian ambassador in Vienna during the 1814 – 15 congress . |
| 18 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 19 | And again she found herself thinking that maybe Jeff had been right and Guido was simply an insufferable bully , the type of man it would be all too easy to fall out with . |
| 20 | ‘ Up to then , the fans had been tolerant , but they began to get on my back after that . |
| 21 | One of these writers , the poet Hölderlin , claims our particular attention here for the new attitude towards Germany that his commitment to the Greek ideal entails — and also for his intuitive awareness of a greater complexity underlying " the spirit of Greece " than Winckelmann or his immediate successors had been able to recognize . |
| 22 | Corbett had been alone with her for five minutes when she died , but Mr Justice McKinnon told the jury ’ You simply could not be sure that in the short time Danielle was under his control he caused her death . |
| 23 | Shelley gazed as he sang , wondering if Dr Rafaelo had been right in saying that this act was only showmanship , with no genuine feeling or emotion in it . |
| 24 | All 3,700 US forces currently remaining in Kuwait had been due to leave in September , and the US announcement thus revived reports of the Kuwaiti government 's continuing interest in securing a Western military presence in the country [ see p. 38407 ] . |
| 25 | Kuwait had been wary of Iraqi territorial ambitions ever since it gained independence from the UK in 1961 . |
| 26 | By closing down Polish educational institutions ( notably the university at Vil'na and the lycée at Krzemieniec ) , by suppressing the Uniate Church ( in 1839 ) , by abolishing Magdeburg Law in Kiev ( in 1835 ) and the Lithuanian Statute throughout the region ( in 1840 ) , by promoting the publication of history books which argued that the western provinces had been Russian from time immemorial , by depriving many Poles of noble status , by promoting the interests of their Ukrainian and Belorussian serfs , and by insisting that local administration be conducted in Russian , he sought to make clear what he meant by allowing " Nationality " , narodnost' , to be attached to " Orthodoxy " and " Autocracy " in the celebrated circular of 1833 . |
| 27 | Hitherto the republics and provinces had been unable to agree on a budget and international financial institutions had accordingly blocked credits . |
| 28 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 29 | Andrew Neil had been charming . |
| 30 | Dr Neil had been busy with a small epidemic of low fever which had fortunately missed Vetch Street , and Matey had decided to do some summer cleaning , spring cleaning having been missed out , due to the deficiencies of Sally-Anne 's predecessor . |