Example sentences of "had [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been the curious tale of the Argentinian scrap metal merchants who had landed on the island of South Georgia , where the United Kingdom had exercised sovereignty since it was discovered by Captain Cook in I775 . |
| 2 | It had been the early evening of the day after polling day , 1983 . |
| 3 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 4 | However , it was subsequently discovered that the real target had been the Interior Minister Moussa , the attack being carried out by the Islamic fundamentalist group Al Jihad , allegedly in retaliation for the killing of two Islamic leaders by the security forces in August and September . |
| 5 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 6 | Education had been the final tie that bound them , and forever parted them from their contemporaries . |
| 7 | If that had been the final outcome , question marks over the ability of sterling to maintain its value against the Deutschmark would have been raised and there would have been a prospect of a rise in interest rates to protect the pound . |
| 8 | In April of 1925 a vacancy for the post of superintendent nurse was advertised and the appointment went to Miss May W. Hall , who was 32 years old , and had been the assistant tutor and deputy superintendent nurse at St.James ' Hospital , Chester . |
| 9 | Of the two doctors it was undoubtedly Dr Dunstaple who had the largest number of adherents ; he had been the civil surgeon in Krishnapur for some years and was known to everyone as a kindly and paternal man . |
| 10 | Many of the predators mentioned in the previous section function equally well as scavengers ( Hewson , 1981 ) , and the modifications they produce are the same as if they had been the primary predators . |
| 11 | Of the rest Matthew Cooper played as a fledgling in the All Blacks ' scamper through Japan in 1987 ; Jon Preston had one game in the World Cup last year ; Kevin Schuler appeared briefly as a replacement in France in 1990 ; and Graham Dowd had been the reserve hooker for the World Cup and the home series against the World XV and managed a short time on the field when Richard Loe was injured in the second half of the First Test against Ireland . |
| 12 | This appeal is by the local authority , with the leave of the judge , from an order made by Sir Gervase Sheldon , sitting as an additional judge of the High Court , on 20 December 1991 , whereby he granted to the foster mother , who had been the foster mother of four children in the care of the local authority , leave to apply for a residence order in respect of those children . |
| 13 | The most heavily affected during the barometer 's six-year life , had been the financial institutions with reported frauds totalling £490 million . |
| 14 | Official sources were quoted by the Agence France-Presse news agency ( AFP ) on Jan. 14 as alleging that Aref had been the financial backer of an attempt to assassinate political and military leaders ; if the plan had succeeded , they claimed , a " civil war " between the Afar and Issa communities " would have been inevitable " . |
| 15 | At the time , however , the Committee — judging that a vital influence over the confused development of credit law had been the strong preoccupation of English law with exactly who owns what — set out two ‘ fundamental points ’ as the basis for its legislative proposals , which might be paraphrased in layman 's language like this : |
| 16 | The squad I ran became what can only be described as more ‘ disordered ’ and ‘ polluted ’ than had been the accepted norm , and we exhibited many verbal and nonverbal signals of this divergent nature . |
| 17 | Jacob Epstein had been the unwitting means of introducing Nina Hamnett ( Miss Hamlet to Montparnasse ) to Modigliani by recommending Rosalie 's restaurant to her . |
| 18 | Before long , the diocese appointed a sub-warden , a Canadian priest with a splendid knowledge of the Old Testament , and a ‘ ’ young'' Anglo-Indian priest whose main study had been the New Testament . |
| 19 | I knew if it had been the other way round , if it was Robert I had to ask , he would have said , ‘ On yer bike . ’ ’ |
| 20 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 21 | Only when that has been fully experienced can the bereaved person take what had been the good parts of the lost relationship and find a new relationship into which those positive feelings can be renewed . |
| 22 | He had once been the leader and she had been the unquestioning follower , but all that had changed now . |
| 23 | There had been the long drift through cold spring into hot summer ; the long sinking into the mercies and bossiness of her friends and thence into the arms of the medical profession ; the final humiliation of accepting , because she was too inert to refuse , money from Rachel . |
| 24 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |
| 25 | His first choice for composer had been the imperial court composer Salieri , who for complicated reasons was obliged to decline the offer . |
| 26 | Mayall had undoubtedly become the largest specialized cotton spinner in England ( and the world ) , but in this period the bell-wethers of cotton industrialization had been the combined spinning and weaving firms . |
| 27 | ‘ Richard Cawston 's film could not have had a better critical reception if it had been the combined work of Eisenstein , Hitchcock and Fellini , ’ wrote the critic in the Evening Standard . |
| 28 | One of the pilots had been the ace Al Deere . |
| 29 | Ever since the post-war beginnings of the atomic dream , it had been the received wisdom that nuclear power was an unquenchable , reliable and , above all , cheap source of electricity . |
| 30 | The speeches of Finbar O'Doherty and Eamonn Melaugh were more militant in tone but they did not demur from Hume 's denial of what had been the central purpose of the DHAC — the unity of the working class around a material grievance . |