Example sentences of "had [adv] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip Greaves , had the portfolios of Public Works and Communications added to his existing responsibilities ; he was also Leader of the House of Assembly Warwick Franklin had hitherto been Agriculture Minister , where his tenure had been a controversial one . |
| 2 | He was replaced in an acting capacity by his arch-rival , the anti-communist Croatian Stipe Mesic , who had hitherto been Deputy President and who had anyway been due to succeed Jovic in May 1991 . |
| 3 | Much of this came from the abolition of fallow , much from the farming of what had hitherto been moor , heath or marsh , much , unfortunately , from the destruction of woodlands . |
| 4 | It had all been Mum . |
| 5 | Ralph had planned it but they had all been party to his evil . |
| 6 | Then it had all been defeat and misery . |
| 7 | It had all been rubbish , all of it . |
| 8 | Jerzy Milewski , head of the National Security Office at the Presidential Chancellery , said that the plans had only been discussion documents , but on April 13 Walesa admitted that plans existed . |
| 9 | In Ecgfrith 's case , by the same principle , if he was killed in the fifteenth year of his reign and had only been king fourteen years , he may have become king in 671 and certainly could not have done so before 21 May 670 . |
| 10 | Where once upon a time there had only been fishing boats , now bobbed the magnificent yachts of international millionaires . |
| 11 | Explaining their resignations in terms of the desire to " recover [ their ] freedom " , Wade said that he and the other PDS ministers had been excluded from government action and had only been party to decisions over " trivial " issues . |
| 12 | There was nothing so dead as an old love , and what they had shared had only been desire on his part . |
| 13 | Increasingly they used the principle of partible inheritance ( which had long been characteristic of some other European societies ) , where the estate was divided between the surviving spouse and children . |
| 14 | An almost unquestioned belief in the street people had long been part of It 's rhetoric , with or without the romanticization of the drop-out , from Kerouac through to Emmett Grogan . |
| 15 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 16 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 17 | In March , sworn depositions and subpoenaed bank statements revealed the extent to which what had seemed a normal transaction with a Japanese museum had apparently been part of a deliberate swindle into which Feigen 's gallery had been drawn . |
| 18 | It had already been love at first hearing . |
| 19 | In France there had already been speculation , followed by disaster , when John Law persuaded the government to unite all the French colonies into a single vast Company for trading up the Mississippi and in the Indies , which was then used as the base for a wild expansion of the French currency . |
| 20 | I had already been part of the theatre working as an ASM at the Cambridge Arts Theatre , not with the University but with the |
| 21 | It was also to assimilate the various discontents and disaffections into the one comprehensive sense of outrage , and further to inflame opinion so that what had already been enthusiasm , to the point of violence , for reform , now became passion . |
| 22 | In November there had already been press reports to the effect that UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar had yielded to Moroccan arguments for a broadening of the criteria for inclusion on the list of voters . |
| 23 | The air , though foul , had already been clement . |
| 24 | In those who , at the point of entry into the trial , had already been stone free for > the nine month median , there was a significantly lower recurrence rate ( 12.7 ( 6.0 ) % at 42 months by LTA ) than in those who had been stone free for |
| 25 | At trial entry , 19 of 28 patients ( 68% ) in the placebo group had already been stone free for equal to or >nine months — compared with only eight of 23 ( 35% ) in the ursodeoxycholic acid group . |
| 26 | Southeast of this elongated zone these sediments had already been overthrust by Precambrian and Palaeozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Blue Ridge and Piedmont provinces . |
| 27 | There had already been uproar when the darling of the Motel , Meg , played by Noele Gordon , was sacked in 1981 . |
| 28 | In addition the head office buildings in Liverpool had not been purpose built to suit the needs of the company and they had become too small . |
| 29 | Self-confidence had not been part of her education so , despite her brief period of employment at de Levantiére 's , she felt insecure and nervous when she met new people . |
| 30 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |