Example sentences of "the [noun pl] had be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But several readers had pointed out that if evil could not create , was only good perverted , then presumably the orcs had been by nature good and might in some way be saved ; Tolkien certainly balked at calling them ‘ irredeemable ’ , see Letters , pp. 195 , 355 . |
| 2 | I think the Germans had been after ‘ Salt Peter ’ , but they got the empty coal yard and one or two small buses instead . |
| 3 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 4 | He had been waiting there since hearing from Bartocci , less than an hour earlier , that the kidnappers had been in touch and that the car would be leaving as soon as it got dark . |
| 5 | The teenagers had been on their way home from a party just after the outbreak of hostilities and , according to one military policeman , had tried to crash the road block , almost running down one of the MPs . |
| 6 | Unusually , one of the schools had been in receipt of two Minor awards in successive years . |
| 7 | The kids had been in the car and there was a water pistol on the shelf under the dash . |
| 8 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 9 | But as some of the books had been through more than one library , the actual figures that emerged were 260 books from 292 libraries . |
| 10 | So there was evidence that the beggars had been on the bank that morning . |
| 11 | Although it was found that the defendants had been at fault , Atkinson J. considered that , irrespective of this , the defendants would have been liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 12 | It might have been very nearly normal if the movements had been like that . |
| 13 | In making the change , the Church effectively admitted that on these points the Reformers had been in the right . |
| 14 | The rats had been at it , the body is already half-gnawed . ’ |
| 15 | As though the mice had been at it . |
| 16 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 17 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 18 | As such , its loss of support was part of the continuing legacy of the Fitzgerald inquiry into corruption within the Queensland government , where the Nationals had been in power for 30 years until defeated in 1989 . |
| 19 | Note that the measurement period commenced after the plants had been in the new environment for a short while , not immediately on removal from the controlled conditions of the growth cupboard . |
| 20 | Although the tapes had been in the possession of the Walsh investigating team for some time , their significance concerning Fiers had apparently surfaced only recently when the investigators turned their attention away from members of the administration of former President Ronald Reagan in favour of concentrating on the connection between senior CIA officials and the Iran-contra affair . |
| 21 | Several of the deals had been with Bill Coleby : ‘ Got 2/6 off Coleby for Yugoslav note worth 1s ’ was one which Peter did not remember . |
| 22 | On the journalists ' evidence , if the directives had been in force during the previous twelve months the effect on air time would have been minimal . |
| 23 | This was offset by the fact that all the farmers had been on courses but in a family farm situation , where over half the wives were expected to carry out farm work in the case of their husbands ' sickness , some training should be beneficial . |
| 24 | The mineworkers had been on strike since Nov. 30 , demanding pay rises of 300-600 per cent . |
| 25 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 26 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 27 | The patients had been on treatment for more than six months and although the type of NSAID varied , all had been established on one drug continuously for over six weeks . |
| 28 | That day her bridal gown had been delivered , and the servants had been in a flurry of activity preparing the wedding banquet . |
| 29 | Prosecuting solicitor Mr Peter Brown said the items had been on TV and in newspapers to try and track the owners . |
| 30 | The tears had been for himself , for Arabella and for a child who would never be born . |