Example sentences of "[noun pl] had be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Auxiliary pumps came on but vital valves had been left shut and they were ineffective . |
| 3 | Until that time the convention in painting nudes had been to omit pubic hair altogether . |
| 4 | Defence lawyers claimed that several injured defendants had been denied medical attention and that many others had been tortured while in custody . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Chintz-covered cushions had been ripped open , left lying on the floor , stuffing scattered . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His sandals had been scraped clean but they still looked pretty dingy . |
| 10 | All the flats on the way up were empty and boarded up , though most of the boards had been prised open . |
| 11 | Individually , the two bands had been doing OK but nothing outrageous . |
| 12 | News that the Islands ' social workers had been given professional stress therapy astounded the families and their support organisation . |
| 13 | But if some of our constituents had been offered other options , they would not have chosen residential or nursing care . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That would only be necessary if the troops had been requisitioning other people 's equipment . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Two cement graves had been smashed open , apparently several decades earlier . |
| 20 | But Mr Karsten said almost two years had been lost due to Mr Foecke 's unwillingness to continue with the university 's internal appeal procedure . |
| 21 | More and more frequently the assaulting infantry discovered that French machine-gun nests had been left untouched by the artillery . |
| 22 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 23 | A Guardian report of June 13 to the effect that underground bunkers containing conventional and nuclear weapons had been left unattended at Clark produced denials from US service sources and the Philippine government . |
| 24 | Now the family 's fears had been proved groundless , the bungled pay-off could be dismissed as just another example of clumsy incompetence on the part of the police , the latest in a long list of blunders . |
| 25 | Only scavvy and looter gangs roamed the accumulated choking filth of that undercity — where , mostly buried under debris , but sometimes still exposed , antique ports had been welded shut millennia ago . |
| 26 | The expenditure plans revealed in January 1992 showed that increased resources had been made available for health , housing , education , and law and order . |
| 27 | The development officers had been given approximate hourly costs ( or costs per visit ) of other home services and had to calculate , using these figures , the existing expenditure on each client . |
| 28 | Ashrawi had said on Jordan on Nov. 9 that she and her fellow delegates had been given diplomatic protection by the USA and the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | Then the bonger had struck the hour and it was only three bongs , and my feet were numb with cold , the Bibles had been kicked askew . |
| 30 | Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district . |