Example sentences of "had be [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One alternative option had been to preserve the house as a burnt-out ruin . |
| 2 | On one occasion after they had been to see the film Odd Man Out , thick fog prevented Bobby returning home to Blackheath . |
| 3 | He remembered the last time he had been to see the dentist . |
| 4 | She had been to see the inspector in charge of her father 's murder case . |
| 5 | The 17-member Co-Ordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls ( COCOM ) , the body whose main role had been to regulate the sale of Western technology to communist countries , agreed in Paris on June 1-2 to invite the former Soviet republics to join its newly established COCOM Co-Operation Forum on Export Controls . |
| 6 | This act left him with an interest in the company that was for most practical purposes worthless since the previous practice among the three member-directors had been to take the money out of the firm in the form of directors ' fees rather than shareholders ' dividends . |
| 7 | The man of the world was not as interested as he should have been ; I had become quicker in some respects , mostly practical , but the price for this had been to lose the ability to make other connections . |
| 8 | Laing 's response to this extraordinary solidarity from a colleague , and in outrage at losing his money , had been to spend the night in the Jeddah branch falsifying the records to ‘ prove ’ that a much larger sum had been embezzled with the co-operation of Steve Pyle himself . |
| 9 | The intention had been to give the premiere of Sea Change at Sadler 's Wells to open the Theatre Ballet 's new season there , but it was thought that by then John would already have left for New York to take part in the Sadler 's Wells Ballet 's first American tour , so the decision was made to present the ballet first on 18 July 1949 at the Gaiety Theatre , Dublin , where the company concluded its summer tour . |
| 10 | His charm , his little anecdotes , even this scene played in the velvet darkness — all of it had been to answer the challenge she 'd so foolishly set before him . |
| 11 | He retorted that the choice had been to close the paper and he wished he had done that because it would have been remembered as a decent publication . |
| 12 | Clearly Dorothy 's principal intention had been to record the apple harvest — a prodigious one ; Helen 's presence was incidental , like one of those figures introduced for purposes of scale or composition . |
| 13 | A captured guerrilla said that the aim of the attack had been to undermine the visit of Pope Jean-Paul II which was due in early September [ see p. 37732 ] . |
| 14 | He added that the MBR 's task at the time of the coup had been to establish the basis " for a profound transformation … in the juridical-political and socio-economic areas " . |
| 15 | It was not so much a guidance note as a review ; the Committee 's terms of reference had been to consider the design and layout most appropriate to various types of roads in built-up areas , with due regard to safety , the free Mow of road traffic , economy and the requirements of town planning , and to make recommendations . |
| 16 | He did n't tell her how difficult it had been to withstand the pain they inflicted on him . |
| 17 | It is incredible that my challenge in tournaments so often during this time had been to make the cut . |
| 18 | This was a backward step , since one of the goals of the Ministry had been to increase the proportion of trained teachers through in-service training to upgrade ‘ empirical ’ teachers , as well as by initial teacher training . |
| 19 | The most nerve-racking part in the end had been to locate the site of the graves . |
| 20 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |
| 21 | Godard 's intention had been to accompany the reading with its author descending stairs , naked , in order to confront the viewer , it was assumed , with the contrast between argument , theory , and the sexual objectification of women . |
| 22 | One of Cromer 's first acts had been to abolish the use by government officials of the curbash , the whip , as a means of enforcing obedience . |
| 23 | One of Chaovalit 's many Cabinet responsibilities had been to head the government 's Counter Corruption Commission ( CCC ) . |
| 24 | The application was renewed to the full court ( Taylor L.J. , Waterhouse and Kennedy JJ. ) on 5 March 1992 and was granted , the grounds of appeal being , that conversations between the undercover police officers and the appellant were interviews and , therefore , the rules in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( s. 66 ) Codes of Practice ( ‘ the PACE Codes ’ ) ought to have been but were not observed , that the effect of the police operation had been to trick the appellant and his co-accused into self-incrimination , and that pursuant to Reg. v. Sang [ 1980 ] A.C. 402 the court ought to have excluded the evidence under section 78 of the Act of 1984 . |
| 25 | As implied above , another effect of generally high crude prices earlier on had been to encourage the economics of developing oil accumulations discovered outside the OPEC countries — not only in the industrialized world , in places like the North Sea , but also in some countries close to OPEC members , like Oman and Mexico . |
| 26 | One major American aim at the conference had been to limit the power of the Japanese , who since their victories over China in 1895 and over Russia in 1905 , had made increasing demands on China . |
| 27 | Strange , how easy it had been to accept the harshness of the training depot and the lessons she had learned . |
| 28 | This implies that Robertson 's response to Kirk 's querying of the definition of " Chetniks " had been to remove the term altogether , and simply to word his instruction in general terms that " all surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Yugoslav forces . " |
| 29 | Considering the effects of language on delicate sensibilities , John Mortimer — whose main concern had been to keep the Sex Pistols as far away from court as possible — pondered that the word Maidenhead did not appear to cause the inhabitants of that town any problems . |
| 30 | His constitutional plan had been to secure the election of his son , the young Frederick , as king , but as soon as the emperor was known to be dead the wisdom of upholding the election of so young an heir was questioned . |