Example sentences of "[conj] had be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul had done less well than had been expected of him at Balliol , not through his own fault . |
| 2 | The turnout , across the Soviet Union as a whole , was 80 per cent , and of those who voted , 76.4 per cent declared in favour of the question that had been asked of them . |
| 3 | The night seemed light , the moon was scudding between white clouds , showing up the white world beyond the drive that had been cleared of snow . |
| 4 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 5 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 6 | He had all their attention now , every eye was wide and bright upon him , Herluin and Robert irresistibly moved to hoping against hope , but very wary of disappointment , Nicol interested but bewildered , for nothing had been said to him of the loss of Saint Winifred 's reliquary , or the possibility that he might have had it aboard his wagon , and had been robbed of it with all the rest . |
| 7 | Many of his acquisitions had eventually bored him and had been disposed of by auction , but the most accomplished and entertaining individuals were rewarded , once they became too old or unattractive to perform their requisite duties , by unconditional liberation from the household and a generous pension . |
| 8 | While this latter disqualification had not prevented the marriage of the Duke d'Orléans , son of Louis-Philippe , with Helen of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , it had in practice proved to be inconvenient , as the duchess did not change her faith and had been accused of pushing ‘ the Protestant interest ’ . |
| 9 | He told me that , many years before , she had been jealous of her husband and another woman , and had been accused of murdering this woman . |
| 10 | She knew who he was , for she had observed him at lectures and had been informed of his parentage . |
| 11 | He said that when the hijacker commandeered the plane over Austria , he had at first ordered the crew to fly directly to New York , but had been persuaded of the need to refuel . |