Example sentences of "[noun sg] had be [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports in early September indicated that the Bush administration had been conducting an ongoing but indirect correspondence with the Iranian regime . |
| 2 | THE magician and his talking parrot had been working an ocean liner , until one day the liner went down in fog . |
| 3 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 4 | It is perhaps possible that they might fail to mention that a purely functional muftilik had been made an for Hizir Bey ; but it seems unlikely in the extreme that they should fail to mention his having held a post which , as has been suggested in the previous chapter , was already one of great prestige and which , by Taskopruzade 's time less than a century later , was certainly one of considerable power . |
| 5 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 6 | The New Right had been showing an interest in Labour 's support for lesbian and gay rights for some time , and a number of organizations such as the National Front , the New Patriotic Movement . |
| 7 | Her husband had been having an affair with Suzanne Regan . |
| 8 | Desperate Jatinder Puri said she had been left with no alternative after her husband had been refused an entry visa three times . |
| 9 | He got a job in insurance and the marriage lasted about three years and three months , then Bunny found out that his quiet , dutiful wife had been having an affair with her boss at the food research place where she worked for roughly three years and two months . |
| 10 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 11 | That invention had been awarded an English patent but B did not mention that fact to the plaintiffs , and after he left he acquired it . |
| 12 | All that scuffling had been to move an armchair round to the front of the desk . |
| 13 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 14 | Until the start of reforms in late 1990 a beard had been considered an " alien manifestation " , and bearded men had been liable to arrest , but the Guardian of Feb. 9 , quoting an opposition activist , reported that beards were no longer illegal . |
| 15 | It was in here , on the north side of the Kremlin , that Myeloski had been given an office . |
| 16 | The high point of his year had been winning an ‘ expression session ’ ( an out-of-competition contest ) in Japan . |
| 17 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 18 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 19 | Their task had been to raid an enemy landing strip at Marble Arch , the British nickname for a vast triumphal arch erected by Mussolini in the middle of the desert to mark the border of Tripolitania . |