Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In official talks begun on June 10 , however , the then Romanian Environment Minister Simion Hincu told his Bulgarian counterpart , Aleksandur Aleksandrov , that the offending factory had been closed in 1988 , and that atmospheric emissions had since been within permissible limits . |
2 | The implication was that the slaughter had all been in vain . |
3 | And she had n't got whatever it was he wanted , so it had all been in vain . |
4 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
5 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
6 | The OEO Agent had obviously been in continuous pain by the end of their long , slow hike , and Bernice was able to boost the feed of chemicals provided by Defries 's combat suit . |
7 | Litigants were likely to be neighbours who had long been on hostile terms . |
8 | Thus the death in 1751 of the Prince of Wales , who had long been on bad terms with his father , led to a virtual collapse for the time being of all political opposition . |
9 | The principles of variation ornamentation , thematic reshaping , and so on — had long been in common use . |
10 | I also think he had been slightly influenced by Father D'Arcy , with whom lie had apparently been in recent touch . |
11 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
12 | Surely Faye had already been through enough ! |
13 | Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance . |
14 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
15 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |
16 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
17 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
18 | It had not been at all like that . |
19 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
20 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
21 | So far though the viewers had not been at all suitable . |
22 | But things had not been at all what they 'd seemed — though she was bound by her promise never to reveal the truth . |
23 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
24 | There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy . |
25 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
26 | Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d . |
27 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
28 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
29 | And equally clearly , concealed in the base of the box , it had not been for public view . |
30 | Alice hoped it was not on account of Jasper though , clearly , to make that emotional speech had not been to clever . |