Example sentences of "[adj] had be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been formed by Captain Buck and consisted of a dozen Jewish immigrants to Palestine , all of whom spoke fluent German . |
| 2 | Indeed in its 1964 election campaign this had been merged with Labour 's ambitious promises to develop a multiracial Commonwealth as an alternative to membership of the EEC . |
| 3 | This had been accepted as the " party line " over much of the world . |
| 4 | In May 1647 they even prepared a draft peace-treaty in French ; and if this had been accepted by the other powers involved it would have marked an important stage in the establishment of the language as that of international relations , at least in western and central Europe . |
| 5 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'll leave arrangements of stones , ’ suggested Floy , and Snodgrass had said that he believed this had been done on Earth . |
| 7 | The acquisition contractor was Geoteam Exploration , using the vessel Nordic Explorer to deploy four 3000 metre streamers — the first time this had been done in the North Sea . |
| 8 | In Rutland the jurors swore on 25 July that a great part of the county had been afforested by Henry II , though there is evidence that this had been done by Henry I. Subsequent returns for Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and Somerset also demanded extensive disafforestments . |
| 9 | Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House . |
| 10 | This had been provoked in part by uncertainty following the suspension of the IMF standby agreement of September 1988 [ see p. 36279 ] when the economy failed both the June and September 1989 tests [ for waiver of December 1988 test following hurricane see p. 36930 ] . |
| 11 | By the 14th century there was a mill in the vicinity , then called Slaughter Mill , and by the 18th century , this had been separated from the manorial estate . |
| 12 | This had been built during the American War when he toured England to rally support among Radical and Nonconformist circles for Lincoln 's armies . |
| 13 | There were stringent language qualifications for citizenship applications , and objections to this had been raised by the Russian Democratic Movement in Estonia ( RDME ) . |
| 14 | Can you even remember whether this had been volunteered to you , weeks or months before or is this something you found out by asking around that day ? |
| 15 | At a short distance from Monarch Hill towards the hills we find Blackman 's Dane , by 1731 this had been altered to Hickman 's Dane , the term having the same meaning as Dene . |
| 16 | This had been arranged by Bart Pragnell , the arts department head of that institution . |
| 17 | All except Lord Diplock founded their decision on the ground that the LTE was under a general duty to run its operations on ordinary business principles and that this had been breached by the reduction of fares without regard to those principles . |
| 18 | This had been made by Dad some time previously , it was a beautifully constructed scaled-down version of the wooden barrows in use at that time . |
| 19 | This had been assisted by the existence in abundance of certain forms of animal life in the foundations : ants , cockroaches and flies had done their bit , but the mice and rats had had their flesh encounters too . |
| 20 | This had been demonstrated by the rise in US imports of manufactured goods , which rocketed by 27 per cent in 1972 following a 20 per cent rise in 1971 : ‘ it was evident that industry abroad was making major adjustments and marketing efforts to enlarge its share of the US market ’ ( Gilbert , 1980 , p. 105 ) . |
| 21 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 22 | It was only after the women had left that she thought to check the receipt book to make sure it had not been her duty to collect payment for today 's four lunches , then sighed with relief when she saw that this had been attended to at lunchtime by Jean . |
| 23 | This had been documented in health studies , and is the daily experience of any worker with travellers on unauthorised sites . |
| 24 | But this had been followed by a sense of personal outrage , an emptiness and then a surge of melancholy , not strong enough to be called grief but keener than mere regret , which had surprised him by its intensity . |
| 25 | But in mid-1942 , at Bir-Hakeim in the Libyan desert , Free French forces had scored their first significant victory against German forces , and this had been followed by other successful actions in North Africa . |
| 26 | By coincidence this had been followed by an orchestrated campaign in the gutter press stirring up fears about asylum seekers |
| 27 | A placing in which selected shareholders ( usually investing institutions ) are invited to buy up to 15 million ( this had been limited to 3 million until 1986 ) of additional equity . |
| 28 | This had been caused in part by the introduction of tax reforms without measures to take account of the loss in revenue . |
| 29 | Because this had been stated in the debate , Mr Sproat explained , it had legal standing and could not be overturned at a later date . |
| 30 | This had been cooked with mint , lime and enough coriander to give a sneaky kung fu blow in the back of one 's throat . |