Example sentences of "had be [verb] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His comments followed the announcement on the same day by the leading US credit rating agency , Standard and Poor 's , that the country had been assigned a BBB investment grade rating , making it the first of Latin America 's problem debtors of the 1980s to meet international standards of credit-worthiness . |
| 2 | We found a railway bridge that had been named the Chelmsford Bridge painted in drab brown colour . |
| 3 | For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge . |
| 4 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 5 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 6 | It was in his camp here that he was approached by a French envoy on behalf of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria , the same Maximilian who had been given the Palatine Electorate in 1623 , with a view to saving his lands from the depredations of Gustavus . |
| 7 | Volpe , Sidtis and Gazzaniga ( 1981 ) observed four left handed patients who had been given the Wada Sodium Amytal test . |
| 8 | The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King . |
| 9 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 10 | Cecil , who had been considering the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot , believes the prevailing soft ground will negate the speed of the specialist milers . |
| 11 | When they returned , the Burtons , who had been sharing the Simmons — Granger household , moved out to a minute bungalow which they rented from the James Masons . |
| 12 | She swung round rather abruptly , and recognised the young man as one of the detective constables who had been haunting the Lodge all day . |
| 13 | After some initial problems had been overcome the Garratts were outstandingly successful , running on all gauges from 2 feet to 5 feet 6 inches on gradients up to 1 in 20 or more , usually at modest speeds on heavily curved and graded routes , but capable of 75–80 m.p.h. on the Algerian expresses which were headed by probably the fastest articulated locomotives ( 4–6–2+2–6–4 ) ever built . |
| 14 | After this had been achieved the RPC turned its attention to formulating a revolutionary policy which would replace the gradualism inherited from the Labour Party . |
| 15 | In early December , Marjorie , Lady Lewis opened the Lewis Wing of the Law Faculty in the Wills Memorial Building , which was refurbished using funds raised form the local law practices to commemorate professor Martin Lewis , the first Professor of Law at the University , and his son Judge Sir Ian , Lady Lewis 's late husband , who had been elected a Pro-Chancellor the University shortly before his untimely death . |
| 16 | It had been operating a Ro-Ro service from inside the locks and undoubtedly was responsible for the major part of the heavy goods vehicle traffic . |
| 17 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 18 | SIX United Nations military hostages , including three Britons , were freed unconditionally yesterday by Cambodia 's Khmer Rouge , who had been demanding a UN pullout . |
| 19 | At one time Prime considered defecting to Russia where he had been promised a KGB colonel 's pension for life . |
| 20 | Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square . |
| 21 | He returned late that afternoon , eager with the good news that they had been awarded the Rouen-Dieppe contract . |
| 22 | He had been awarded the Hanseatic-Goethe prize but was unable to make the trip to Germany in order to receive it , and even now was attempting to prepare an address for the following year . |
| 23 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 24 | Aung San Suu Kyi 's expulsion from the NLD , some two months after she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize , was the latest attempt by the ruling junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , to undermine her position as the main symbol of opposition to military rule . |
| 25 | Diana had been blaming the Highlands for what was a far more fundamental malady . |
| 26 | For at least twenty-five years , Western policy had been to help the Shah destroy all alternatives to his own rule . |
| 27 | His first choice had been to combine the Tchaikovsky concerto with a complete recording of the composer 's Souvenir d'un lieu cher ( Op. 42 ) , in the orchestrated version by Glazunov . |
| 28 | It was after he had been spending a Sunday with her that the accident happened . |
| 29 | NRA forces were reported to have committed atrocities against the civilian population in Soroti district in the east , where the government had been fighting the Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) , led by Peter Otai ; in September it was reported that 30 NRA personnel had been arrested for the killing of 60 civilians in the area . |
| 30 | Its aim in threatening to intercept the Dae Hung Ho had been to underscore the US position against missile proliferation in the region . |