Example sentences of "had [be] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather had been kind for Boz 's wedding but it was less so for Tom and Dolly . |
| 2 | The Irish Industry Minister , Des O'Malley , stressed that a key factor in winning the project had been availability of computer scientists . |
| 3 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 4 | He had the medical advice of Sir Daniel Davies , who had been physician to Lloyd George and indeed to a number of misguided dignitaries who were influenced by his great reputation . |
| 5 | Since July 1400 he had been archdeacon of Dorset , absentee but perhaps not without interest . |
| 6 | Before the War , many large consumers had generated their own electricity ( 45 per cent of industrial electricity came from self-generation in 1938 ) , and some of the larger firms , such as ICI and Ford , had been pioneers in generation technology . |
| 7 | There were accusations of plagiarism , of cheating , of fabricating data ; there was name-calling in public as Fleischmann and Pons were called ‘ incompetent ’ and ‘ deluded ’ ; there were deep politics , paranoia and , by the end of the year , threats of writs being issued against the editor of a leading scientific journal and against one scientist whose experiments suggested that there had been errors in Pons ' laboratory . |
| 8 | Before Rope Thrower subdued the Great Chief Manuelito — among whose lieutenants was Hawk 's many-times-great grandfather Armijo — the Navaho had been herders of horses and cattle , cultivators of corn , pumpkins , wheat and melons and famous for their groves of peach trees . |
| 9 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 10 | Three whites were appointed : Dennis Norman , who had been Minister of Agriculture in 1980-85 ; Chris Anderson , the outgoing Minister of State for Public Service ; and Timothy Stamps , one of five ministers new to the government . |
| 11 | He was succeeded on June 22 by Javier Solana Madariaga , 50 , who had been Minister of Education and Science since 1988 and was regarded as a close associate of Prime Minister Felipe González . |
| 12 | Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs . |
| 13 | Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs . |
| 14 | These were the principles underlying the creation of the University of Keele ( as it later became ) , whose founding Vice-Chancellor , A. D. Lindsay , had been Master of Balliol College , Oxford , and closely associated with the powerful group that promoted Cumberland Lodge . |
| 15 | Another reflection of this could be the twelfth-century belief in the abbey of Ely , where Brihtnoth was buried , that he had been earl of Northumbria . |
| 16 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 17 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 18 | The Davises had originally come from Grenada and the Carlsons had got to know them because their eldest child and Daryl had been friends at school . |
| 19 | Casaroli , 76 , who had been Secretary of State since 1979 [ see p. 29852 ] , was widely regarded as the architect of the Vatican 's " Ostpolitik " , stressing closer ties with eastern Europe and the creation of diplomatic links with the Soviet Union [ see pp. 36830 ; 37129 ; 37258 ; 37394 ; 37899 ] . |
| 20 | At an extraordinary session of parliament on July 8 , held to discuss the programme of the new government , there had been criticism from Islamist and nationalist deputies and the Constitutional Bloc , a new parliamentary grouping formed by 13 deputies on July 14 , had declared its intention of joining the Moslem Brotherhood in opposing the government in a vote of confidence . |
| 21 | Still , there had been unity of sorts . |
| 22 | Mr. J.T. Stanley had been Head of Art since 1949 , and as Form Master of 1A for most of those thirty years , was the introduction to School for almost half the annual intake . |
| 23 | Mba , hitherto governor of the regional bank , the Banque des états de l'Afrique centrale ( BEAC ) , replaced Léon Mebiame who had been head of government since 1981 . |
| 24 | Mobutu had been head of state and head of the sole legal party , the Mouvement populaire de la révolution ( MPR ) , since taking power by means of a coup in 1965 . |
| 25 | He had been Head of Geography from 1919 until his retirement in 1953 , and later became a Governor , representing the staff of the School . |
| 26 | It was known that he had been archbishop of Canterbury between 1006 and 1012 , and that he had been killed by the Danes for refusing to pay Danegeld . |
| 27 | Lynn had been Editor of BROWNIE for over four years . |
| 28 | Yakovlev had been editor of Moskovskiye novosti , a newspaper which had extended the boundaries of freedom of speech during the perestroika period , and had taken over the chairmanship of All-Union Television and Radio ( which became Ostankino in December 1991 " see p. 38655 ) in August 1991 after the failed coup [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 29 | Substantial parts of the urban population were better off in material terms and there had been changes in attitudes . |
| 30 | There had been changes in technology , in the workforce and in the class system . |