Example sentences of "had a [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had a final draft been posted ? |
| 2 | Why this 1% of 17 year olds still had a non-retractile foreskin was not stated , but data from a subsequent study suggest that they were probably suffering from balanitis xerotica obliterans . |
| 3 | In the normal run of things , had a verbal warning been necessary — which it certainly was n't — then it was without question that Naylor Massingham would certainly not have wasted his precious time on such trips , but would have delegated one of his underlings to do it . |
| 4 | we had a strong room were some of the very confidential matters , estates and all that kind of stuff , er was kept and some money kept . |
| 5 | He was a great melodist , but he had a real struggle being caught up in the machinery of making hits . |
| 6 | A curfew was imposed after nightfall , but it was ill-observed , and almost anyone who had a reasonable excuse was permitted to walk the streets without hindrance . |
| 7 | The girl who would only appear in school plays if she had a non-speaking part was now centre stage . |
| 8 | So when would a rule or practice which had a discriminatory effect be ‘ justifiable ’ ? |
| 9 | It is strange therefore that the signal box instruments revealed it as clear , the signal must have been at green , or had a heavy weight been lying across the signal wire ? |
| 10 | This time my reaction to the knowledge that in all probability cancer was back with me and that I had a dreaded secondary was quite different from my reaction on first being told of the disease six months earlier . |
| 11 | Our finding that only one in 10 asymptomatic patients with know connective tissue disease had a manometric abnormality is at variance with previous studies in patients with scleroderma and mixed connective tissue disease . |
| 12 | Had a sexual history been taken at the time of his first visit , it would have emerged that , although he had a long-lasting and stable sexual relationship with one person , his partner was of a promiscuous nature and was known by Philip H. to have had several casual sexual encounters over the preceding year . |
| 13 | The Avila press believe , as do we , that had a proper search been conducted from the beginning , Jeremy would have been found alive . |
| 14 | Young single women with children are overwhelmingly likely to be living in local authority housing , and those who married early and/or had a pre-marital conception are more likely to do so as well . |
| 15 | This view will be related to the determinate sentence that would have been passed but for the element of mental instability and/or public risk which led the judge to pass a life sentence and will also take account of the notional period of the sentence which a prisoner might expect to have been remitted for good behaviour had a determinate sentence been passed . |
| 16 | But hardly had a white part been exposed before blackness covered it again . |
| 17 | The grafted cells which had a proximal character are now in the progress zone again and so acquire more distal positional values . |
| 18 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 19 | The fact that it had a happy ending was immaterial to me . |
| 20 | I suppose it would be when they well when they dressed that was the night they had a big celebration was n't it . |
| 21 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |