Example sentences of "had [adv] be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiffs contended that they had thereby been deprived of the opportunity to bid for H.F. Co. but pill J. rejected their claim because while the law certainly allowed a freedom to bid for property that was neither a ‘ business asset ’ of the plaintiffs ' nor a legal right which the law would protect . |
| 2 | Heads of departments had thereby been deprived of ‘ a large measure of independence ’ . |
| 3 | Accordingly the defendant had effectively been deprived of his right to have the breath specimen replaced by a specimen of blood or urine in accordance with section 7(4) and , as in Anderton v. Lythgoe , the breath specimen had been inadmissible . |
| 4 | Only a much less comprehensive record had hitherto been kept of business done in Parliament . |
| 5 | dissertation the young Prince Louis de Broglie proposed a way in which waves might be associated with objects like electrons which had hitherto been thought of in purely particle terms ( see Appendix , A2 ) . |
| 6 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 7 | But John Bullock , senior partner at Deloitte UK , admitted that Touche Ross had only been informed of his decision not to merge with them ‘ a few days ago ’ . |
| 8 | Praising Webster for his " integrity , effectiveness , and insight " , Bush stated that he had only been informed of the development on May 7 . |
| 9 | The first change they noticed as a result of the Revolution was the indiscriminate and wasteful hacking down of the woods by the peasants : large trees had merely been deprived of their thinner branches . |
| 10 | It had already been stripped of the lighting side of its business , the more profitable side , and now the tramway undertaking was to be absorbed into the unified transport system , of which so much had been heard . |
| 11 | AT US insistence the existing agreement , which had come into force in 1987 , had already been stripped of its provisions to intervene in the market . |
| 12 | He said most ticket-holders had already been warned of the cancellation and would be given a full refund . |
| 13 | A particularly important decision was that in R. v. Thomson Holidays ( 1973 C.A. ) where the defendants had already been convicted of an offence under section 14 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 by making false statements in a holiday brochure . |
| 14 | Thirty-six defendants had already been convicted of fraud in relation to housing in Washington DC . |
| 15 | Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died . |
| 16 | Quite apart from his own necessities , Gould was beleaguered by requests from acquaintances to deliver letters to people in Sydney , even to trace a young man who had gone to Australia three years earlier and had not been heard of for more than a year . |
| 17 | He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany . |
| 18 | When Keynes had talked of the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ he had not been thinking of cricket , but the MCC had to face the reality of the decline of the leisured classes . |
| 19 | This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham . |
| 20 | Rain had not been thinking of doing that . |
| 21 | The Full Federal Court allowed the appeal on the ground that there had been no breach of natural justice as the respondents had been given a hearing and , in the opinion of one Judge , had not been deprived of any present benefit or advantage . |
| 22 | The Privy Council rejected the argument that there was not theft because the companies had not been deprived of anything . |
| 23 | Yet when , after Poindexter 's first day of testimony , the story-line reached its conclusion — no , the president had not been told of the diversion of funds to the contras — viewers fell away . |
| 24 | Mr Maclean was answering an emergency question from the area 's MP , John Cunningham ( Lab , Copeland ) , who had visited Sellafield on Thursday and Friday but complained he had not been told of the leak . |
| 25 | Most local hoteliers and guesthouse owners , who said they had not been told of this , left before the vote was taken . |
| 26 | The district controller of the Portland Coastguard , Donald McDonald , said he had not been told of the trip by the canoeing group but that the sea conditions were ‘ quite favourable ’ and should not have caused any problems . |
| 27 | It was clearly foreseen , though not stated , that these would be drawn mainly from the workhouses , either because the relatives of the dead could not pay for interment , or because they had not been notified of death . |
| 28 | The one disappointing feature was that the legal profession had not been notified of this event despite the Bar 's recorded interest . |
| 29 | This enables the interviewer to burrow much further into the complexities of some situations and may well introduce him to relevant factors which had not been thought of before at all . |
| 30 | They found that Darwin W/T station had not been informed of their flight in time to warn Koepang W/T station to be on the air the following morning . |