Example sentences of "[num] [noun] had be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the previous rules fourteen hours had been the maximum shift allowed . |
| 2 | The vote was seen as of particular significance because in the late 1970s California had been the source of the political campaign to reduce taxes , a policy which achieved national application when former governor Ronald Reagan became President in 1981 . |
| 3 | In the four decades since the break with the Soviet Union in 1948 Yugoslavia had been the most open and liberal communist state , but in the wake of the recent overthrow of communist monopolies across Eastern Europe it now found itself , as The Times of Jan. 19 noted , " at the tail-end of East European reforms " . |
| 4 | The marriage which he contemplated for Matilda was with one of the most powerful of the new barons of the Conqueror , Count Alan Rufus , lord of Richmond , who for twenty-five years had been the greatest man in the north of England and one of the most constant witnesses of English royal charters : a central character , therefore , in the government of England , but a potential menace in the semi-conquered North . |
| 5 | From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands . |
| 6 | Clara 's one solace had been the cold , tight dignity of her case , and this had been stolen from her , robbed from her by an elderly woman 's few words of casual humanity . |
| 7 | One grandmother had been the orphan daughter of a silk merchant , ‘ taken into care ’ and sent as a young woman into service . |
| 8 | So the Fosse Way , which at one time had been the main road from medieval Coventry to Leicester , was ordered in the Sharnford award of 1765 to be ‘ of the same width as it hath heretofore usually been ’ . |
| 9 | His return represented a landmark in the rehabilitation of the Uniate Church , which for more than 40 years had been the world 's largest banned religious organization . |
| 10 | Until the sixties the headquarters of the Legion had been at Side Bel Abbe s in Algeria , the country which for 150 years had been the Legion 's home . |
| 11 | If the first of the two roads had been the right one to take , that would be an end of the matter . |
| 12 | An FMLN communiqué issued by the FMLN leadership on Nov. 26 claimed that the Nov. 19-20 offensive had been the first action of its newly proclaimed professional " National Army for Democracy " , a merger of its five previous organizations into a conventional rank structure . |
| 13 | The first two years had been the hardest — there was hardly a piece of equipment in the kitchen that did n't have a hospital properly stamp on it somewhere — but things had grown steadily better since . |
| 14 | The last eight miles had been the worst up to that point , and yet I had gone faster than ever before . |
| 15 | Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy . |