Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] had be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 2 | One of the highest-ranking Mafia figures ever to testify for the authorities , Gravano claimed to having participated in 19 murders , and insisted that those committed during the last 10 years had been on the orders of Gotti . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , if this six weeks had been with U2 or Faith No More , we 'd obviously be doing better than we are . |
| 4 | But , of the 600 men arrested after the failure of the latest rising , only six others had been in similar trouble before . |
| 5 | There were furious debates in respect of schemes for Oxford and Bath , but the biggest single reversal of policy concerned London , where for many years three ringways had been in mind . |
| 6 | In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters . |
| 7 | Against the Alan , as many as twenty tumans had been in operation , their movement co-ordinated with incredible accuracy . |
| 8 | It was then revealed that the two brothers had been on the brink of a merger with a hotel group , a highly respectable one with over fifty good solid hotels in the provinces . |
| 9 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 10 | That evening the two defendants had been in the Peace Gardens with Mrs McMullen , her mother , Annie Williams , and brother , Terence Morton . |
| 11 | The jury was previously told by John Griffith-Williams QC , prosecuting , that the two defendants had been in the Wrexham Peace Gardens with Mrs McMullen on the evening of her death , where McLean later claimed to have found her body . |
| 12 | In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools . |
| 13 | Police believe the two men had been in the area for some time possibly in a blue transit van which had ladders on its roof . |
| 14 | By April 1986 , 186,711 men had been without work for more than five years , a sum nearly five times greater than the same group four decades earlier . |
| 15 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 16 | Jack was in his studio , and the two women had been in the drawing room watching a video-recording of Alison 's play about the ballet school . |