Example sentences of "[noun] had be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw nothing of them : the eight-yard-high obelisk was swathed in wooden bandages , as impenetrable as Scott 's Monument had been in Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 3 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 4 | And Widnes general manager Frank Myler , insisted that no club had been in contact regarding a possible move by Davies from Naughton Park . |
| 5 | ‘ I was angry and upset to read that somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 6 | Crosby blew his top after learning of the Coppell link and said yesterday : ‘ I was angry and upset to read somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 7 | In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made . |
| 8 | No one could tell she and Nevil had been in it . |
| 9 | The training of the vernacular clergy had been in the hands of Arthur Dilworth , the first time that a missionary had been completely set aside for this important task . |
| 10 | In his reply , the Chief Executive told Councillor Matheson that the Social Work Department had been in the process of compiling guidelines when ‘ the present difficulties ’ arose . |
| 11 | The kids had been in the car and there was a water pistol on the shelf under the dash . |
| 12 | Ronnie had been in F1 since 1971 , he was recognized as one of the sport 's quickest ever drivers , he had given Lotus four years of loyal service during relatively lean years and he thought he thoroughly deserved the reward when Lotus came good . |
| 13 | The PDC had been in opposition since leaving Endara 's government in April 1991 ; Arias had remained in the constitutional post of First Vice-President without attending Cabinet meetings . |
| 14 | Most of his full-scale skirmishes had been in NoGos or Urban Blight areas . |
| 15 | For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death . |
| 16 | At the same time a change in the industrial mix had been in progress with traditional energy intensive industries in decline and service-based , high technology industries on the increase . |
| 17 | Nizan was convinced that the novel in the contemporary period was as significant a genre as tragedy had been in the classical period . " |
| 18 | The government were not reassured to learn that Branson had been in consultation with Robert Beckman , the New York lawyer who was fighting the anti-trust action on Laker 's behalf . |
| 19 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 20 | Mr Fallon said he had talked to the longest serving officials in his department who said the expansion rule had been in place as long as they had been there . |
| 21 | Harbour had been in the middle of telling Freddie that in his opinion it was almost a blessing that the theatre would have to close . |
| 22 | As fast as he undid them I did them up again , so that when he got to my waist and sighed he recoiled with indignation and astonishment to find that his labour had been in vain . |
| 23 | The future of the Swiss nuclear industry had been in doubt for a number of years , particularly since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union [ see pp.34460-62 ] , and in 1988 the government had halted plans to build a nuclear power station at Kaiseraugst near Basel [ see p. 36499 ] . |
| 24 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 25 | The Archdeacon did not , diplomatically , point out that the Bishop had not consulted Lord Dersingham when the living had been in his gift . |
| 26 | Moynihan had been in his time a University cox and a flyweight boxing blue , and barely came up to her elbow . |
| 27 | Miloš knew that Karadjordje had been in contact with the representatives of the Greek nationalist organisation Philike Hetairia ( Society of Friends ) , which was planning a general rising of all the sultan 's Christian subjects . |
| 28 | how useful the review had been in producing proposals for institutional c change . |
| 29 | His first action had been in Greece in late 1940 : ‘ We soon went to the border , and the Germans invaded from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia which they had romped through . |
| 30 | Now fantastic rumours started to circulate to the effect that the Virgin of Fatima might appear again — her last apparition had been in Portugal on 13 October 1927 . |