Example sentences of "[adj] had be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Treasury issued a counter-statement saying that nothing improper had been asked of civil servants by ministers . |
| 2 | The underlying problem was , perhaps , that too much had been expected of the Queen . |
| 3 | The latter had been informed of L Detachment 's successes and was amenable to the further plans for action which Stirling was ready to put to him . |
| 4 | ‘ Solid , thorough , plodding , even , ’ ( that had been said of him by a Bromberg once to Frau Nordern — — but once only ) ‘ but kind in his shy way and decent to the very core . ’ |
| 5 | All four had been accused of involvement in the murders of two Australian lawyers on holiday in the Dutch town of Roermond in May 1990 [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 6 | Meanwhile on Jan. 9 the Supreme Court ordered a retrial of 10 members of the opposition Liberia Unification Party who in October 1988 had been convicted of plotting against the Doe regime [ see p. 36610 ] . |