Example sentences of "had be [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had forgotten that before the war there had been no Women 's Auxiliary Air Force to build barrack blocks for , as the Force only came into being in 1939 . |
| 2 | By the sound of it , World War III was breaking out behind her and after the race there had been a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 3 | Milton Goldman had been an actors ' agent for nearly 40 years . |
| 4 | Son of Gifford Tate , the painter , he had been the Garlands ' doctor since , at his father 's death , he had returned to Falmouth and set up practice in the family house . |
| 5 | The show that underlined changing days was the Oxford review , Beyond The Fringe , with its mild demolition job on national pretensions which had been the Conservatives ' stock-in-trade since 1951 . |
| 6 | Parents had , inevitably in a Direct Grant school , always been closely involved since they were , numerically , the biggest source of income for new building projects , which could not be financed from fees ; but the only formal organization had been the Ladies ' Committee , in whose capable hands the Autumn Fairs and Scandinavian Evenings had prospered over the years . |
| 7 | They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis 's workshop in what had been the grooms ' quarters . |
| 8 | The seizure of power in the capital had been the rebels ' primary objective since 18 July . |
| 9 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |