Example sentences of "[noun pl] had be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already discussed the improbability of the entire aircraft , its crew and its troops disappearing totally over land ; though , of course , had it come down in enemy-occupied territory , nothing might ever have been known of the matter if all the occupants had perished , and certainly not if any survivors had been disposed of ( which , given the purpose of their mission , would have been highly probable ) . |
| 2 | However , as I could now see , a vast area behind the shops had been cleared of housing and turned into an enormous shopping centre . |
| 3 | The defendants had been accused of orchestrating an illegal scheme to boost the value of Guinness shares above their normal market levels , at the time of Guinness 's ultimately successful takeover bid for the Distillers Company in 1986 . |
| 4 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 5 | Though the making of contracts with crews had been required of shipowners and masters for more than a century , these had , it seems , been corrupted by the inclusion of conditions which even the courts regarded as outrageous . |
| 6 | In December 1969 , after Conservative protests had been disposed of that Parliament was being asked to reach a decision at an unnecessarily early stage ( a General Election was in the offing ) , both Houses agreed that the 1965 Act should not expire . |
| 7 | Tass said Gazprom 's foreign customers had been warned of possible supply disruptions after Thursday . |
| 8 | Both businesses had been starved of investment for more than thirty years . |
| 9 | Prof Catford said two studies had been undertaken of family doctors ' attitudes to health promotion and their own health . |
| 10 | When the meal was over and the tables had been cleared of everything except the wine and the cups , one of the Altun stood up . |
| 11 | Earlier Rangers had been thinking of survival rather than victory as for the third weekend in a row the Glasgow giants found themselves seriously threatened by a club from the bottom half of the table . |
| 12 | Controlling the bureaucracy poses problems for all presidents and Ford was undeniably correct in arguing that presidents had been deprived of the sort of ‘ clout ’ they once had in matters of national security . |
| 13 | Chapter 5 , on the New Testament ( DV 17–20 ) , likewise partly consists of rather conventional summaries ; but it does deal , firmly yet flexibly , with questions of the historicity of the Gospels , and agrees that the development of the Gospel tradition was influenced by oral transmission and preaching ( for allowing which , responsible scholars had been accused of heresy ) . |
| 14 | Helpful though such measures were likely to be in domestic terms , the simultaneous resignation of the Soviet Chief of Staff suggested that not all powerful institutional interests had been persuaded of their necessity . |
| 15 | The colony 's German settler inhabitants had been accused of sexually abusing children , of torturing inmates and using them as slave labour , and also of acting as a torture centre for the DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup [ see also pp. 36346 ; 36932 ; 37490 ] . |
| 16 | Responding to foreign criticisms of the heavier sentences handed down to civilians as compared with those passed on soldiers following the massacre [ see pp. 38769 ; 38965 ] , the ABRI spokesman said that the civilians had been convicted of " subversive acts " against the Indonesian authorities , while the soldiers had been found guilty of acting beyond their authority in dealing with the demonstrators . |
| 17 | At the start of the trial 24 former politburo members had been accused of " participation in genocide " for their part in the politburo meetings of Dec. 17 and 22 , 1989 , as a result of which 1,033 people had been killed and 2,198 injured . |
| 18 | If the ships had been made of a material like glass they would have broken long before a crack became conspicuous . |
| 19 | The defendant occupiers were held not liable , as they could assume that sweeps would be aware of this particular danger and also because the sweeps had been warned of the danger . |
| 20 | At the time of my visit about half the men had been convicted of heterosexual offences , mostly rape ; about a quarter for offences against children and about a quarter were the ‘ grasses ’ or informers . |
| 21 | All three men had been accused of manslaughter and arson after Rebbecca and Emma Harper died in the barn fire at Uckington near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire last year . |
| 22 | For example , Britain lost just over one-third of her shipping tonnage ; pre-war overseas income had paid for one-quarter of imports , whereas , during the war one-quarter of overseas assets had been disposed of and other substantial assets were put out of commission ( such as plantations in the Far East ) . |
| 23 | The older houses had been built of a homely and native brown stock brick , and the farm buildings largely of wood . |
| 24 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 25 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 26 | The concrete paths had been cleared of snow and ice . |
| 27 | All four outgoing ministers had been accused of corruption and influence-peddling . |
| 28 | Residents had been warned of an explosion , he claimed , but had " acted like children " and failed to obey instructions given to them . |
| 29 | Bevin remembered the mistakes of the years after 1918 when , he felt , the returning soldiers had been cheated of the social and economic reforms they had a right to expect . |
| 30 | In 1985 , four soldiers had been convicted of the murder . |