Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 2 | The two other presidential candidates , Alfonso Santos of the Christian Democratic Front and Guadalupe de Seita , an independent , announced at the end of February that they were withdrawing from the ballot , complaining that government funds had been made available for the Trovoada campaign . |
| 3 | An astonishing repair of sorts had been effected some time in the last century : a young fruit tree was nailed vertically to the back of the panel and held in place with iron bands . |
| 4 | I 've often wish 'd , for the honour of our Sex , that these Subjects had been exhausted seventeen hundred years ago ; but am afraid that seventeen hundred years hence , we shall have the same false Corydon 's , and the same complaining Sylvia 's . |
| 5 | It was the decisive end of an imagination whose bounds had been set wider and wider , the doom of the crystal palaces of the rails , the ferrovitreous stables of the champing iron horses . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , some recorded samples were lost because the children were outside in the playground or on excursions from the home , so when the recordings had been transcribed seven samples only were picked for analysis , a random procedure being used to make the selection where more than seven had been recorded . |
| 7 | Auxiliary pumps came on but vital valves had been left shut and they were ineffective . |
| 8 | Until that time the convention in painting nudes had been to omit pubic hair altogether . |
| 9 | Defence lawyers claimed that several injured defendants had been denied medical attention and that many others had been tortured while in custody . |
| 10 | He had spent many pleasant evenings here ; and Catherine 's parents had been trusting enough to withdraw to the morning room , leaving them alone together . |
| 11 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 12 | There was , however , an insidious corollary to the belief that God might intervene to save His chosen people and prolong the lives of deserving individuals ; it was that where He did not intervene to save life , those who lost their lives had been found unworthy . |
| 13 | However , these occasional tensions had been kept private until Robert and Samuel Wilberforce chose to make some of them public in the life of their father they published in 1838 . |
| 14 | Mr Crawford added more than 600 illegal nets had been seized this year . |
| 15 | Chintz-covered cushions had been ripped open , left lying on the floor , stuffing scattered . |
| 16 | Rovers had been feeling better on Monday , November 1 , when the F.A . |
| 17 | The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah . |
| 18 | For as to the last oracle , the Gospels had been left open , and there was a wind blew through from the south doorway and ruffled the pages over , turning back from John to Matthew . |
| 19 | US negotiators had been seeking such an agreement since shortly after Endara 's government was installed following the overthrow of the Noriega regime by US military intervention in December 1989 . |
| 20 | His sandals had been scraped clean but they still looked pretty dingy . |
| 21 | All the flats on the way up were empty and boarded up , though most of the boards had been prised open . |
| 22 | Individually , the two bands had been doing OK but nothing outrageous . |
| 23 | News that the Islands ' social workers had been given professional stress therapy astounded the families and their support organisation . |
| 24 | But if some of our constituents had been offered other options , they would not have chosen residential or nursing care . |
| 25 | Their contents were pathetic though the assassin had made his presence felt ; two battered coffers had been prised open , tawdry jewellery cast aside along with scraps of parchment and a thumb-marked Book of Hours , but none of these proved of any value . |
| 26 | Some 8-10,000 Sri Lankan troops had been landed 9 km further east on July 14 and gradually fought their way to Elephant Pass , supported by naval shelling of LTTE positions . |
| 27 | That would only be necessary if the troops had been requisitioning other people 's equipment . |
| 28 | This was prompted by reports that the two governments had been providing logistic support for UNITA — South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , hitherto a negotiator in the conflict [ see p. 39129 ] , had been declared persona non grata on Nov. 6 , apparently in response to these reports . |
| 29 | In part , this is because the country 's main coal-fired power plants had been awarded free permits for 75 per cent of their " baseline " output ( calculated on the basis of their average emissions in the 1980s ) . |
| 30 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |