Example sentences of "had [adv] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty , denounced by Wijeratne in 1990 as a " terrorist organization " , had hitherto been denied access to Sri Lanka , most recently at the height of the JVP insurgency in 1989 [ for December 1989 , September 1990 Amnesty reports see pp. 37353 ; 37711 ] . |
| 2 | The specialist reassured him plans were being worked out by his colleagues even as they spoke , and it had all been taken care of . |
| 3 | He knew nothing of her trip to Bath , and supposed she had only been to visit Liddy . |
| 4 | Coun Williams said he had merely been following council policy . |
| 5 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 6 | Erm cos I think a lot of the , I mean a lot of land redistribution had already been taking place in since about the since about January of nineteen forty six , so I think the May the fourth directive is just erm an official , well a secret official acceptance of this . |
| 7 | Its polythene wrapping looked vaguely torn and grubby , as if members of the Waitrose staff had already been playing catch with it . |
| 8 | The bill had already been taken care of , she found out as she asked a porter to help with their bags . |
| 9 | He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany . |
| 10 | Alan Smith had just been appointed editor and was about to change the whole face of the paper , ditching those who revered Cilla as the greatest swinger on the block . |
| 11 | Ken , who although he had just been appointed Bishop , was still a Royal Chaplain , remained beside the bed of the dying King for three days and nights , ‘ watching at proper intervals to suggest pious and proper thoughts and ejaculations on so serious an occasion ’ . |
| 12 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 13 | It was his grandson who , in 1831 , enlisted the help of a Lambton , who had just been made Earl of Durham , to prove his claim to the Earldom of Perth . |
| 14 | In a radio broadcast on 1 October 1936 , the day he was officially invested as Head of State , Franco hinted at how he envisaged the organization of the as yet non-existent state of whose equally non-existent government he had just been made leader . |
| 15 | The West had just been sending gold straight to Stalin 's coffers . ’ |
| 16 | The point of the alternative foreign policy had always been to prevent war , not to prepare for it . |
| 17 | Perhaps I was just being a ridiculous prig , behaving quite differently from anyone else who had ever been taken prisoner . |
| 18 | The play had still been called Funeral Games up to this point . |
| 19 | He had also been made steward of Tottington , Rochdale and Penwortham just two weeks before the grant to Gloucester . |
| 20 | He had also been made steward of Tottington , Rochdale and Penwortham just two weeks before the grant to Gloucester . |
| 21 | To rally support the government had raised the pay of military personnel by 20 per cent in 1989 , and civil servants had also been awarded pay rises . |
| 22 | Christmas Eve brought us the good news that we had also been awarded Phase II of the East Merthyr Reclamation Scheme , known as Great White Tip . |
| 23 | Much of the technology used in the Macintosh came via Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre where they had also been investigating page printing technology and methods of transferring complex graphics between screens and the printed page . |
| 24 | The UK apparently had also been exerting pressure on Commonwealth member countries with MNR sympathies , notably Kenya , to convince the rebels that they should accept a peace package . |
| 25 | We got a tremendous shock of course and I was extremely upset because the love of my life had nearly been made part of the road surface . |
| 26 | It had originally been refused permission by the government on the grounds that commercial exploitation of natural resources in a National Park is illegal . |
| 27 | David Ashford , who 's a teacher , had even been given permission to take twelve weeks off work . |
| 28 | They had even been giving trouble during the morning and had still not been put right . |
| 29 | Shinjuro Yamamura , the chairman of the Diet budget committee , was stabbed to death on April 12 by his own daughter , who had reportedly been receiving treatment for a psychiatric condition . |
| 30 | After all , there must have been many comfortable nursing homes in Sydney where her father , who had then been having difficulty in telling even night from day , would have received the sort of care and attention which he had needed . |