Example sentences of "had be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman died in 1890 after a career in which he had been successively the most influential thinker in the Church of England , and then in English Roman Catholicism . |
| 2 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 3 | I also remember meeting Johnnie Cooper , then a subaltern , but a long serving ex-N.C.O. who had been probably the first man recruited to the infant regiment by David Stirling . |
| 4 | Her face had been just the same then — interested but inscrutable — and she had taken a fiver off all of them . |
| 5 | And for one veteran , from Cinderford in the Forest of Dean , the excitement of coming to London had been just the start of an amazing day . |
| 6 | Er now clearly if the if the members had si had been simply the highways committee had been deciding the preferred route simply on the basis of which gives the greatest traffic relief then on that basis they would have chosen an inner northern . |
| 7 | They had been marginally the more dangerous side , but there was nothing then to suggest that Bradford might not complete their third win of the season over Leeds . |
| 8 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 9 | He had been right the first time . |
| 10 | His interviews the previous night had been done with all his customary thoroughness , but the most productive one had been not the Fernies or young Curtis , those most directly concerned with the incidents which had taken him to Boundary Drive , but with Ted Morgan whom there was really no reason to interview at all . |
| 11 | All of that had changed in the course of five minutes in the ancillary staff 's locker room , and the sense of betrayal had been exactly the same . |
| 12 | Jessamy found herself remembering how it had been the very first time between them , it had been exactly the same , this sudden wanting . |
| 13 | The faculty argued that her treatment had been exactly the same as that of any other applicant , regardless of his or her race or colour , who sought to join the bar . |
| 14 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 15 | Above my head was a half gallery which I later discovered had been traditionally the sleeping-quarters of the miller 's apprentice . |
| 16 | Well , there had been neither the commanding tone nor the easy insolence from that couple ; and yet , in a way she knew her father was right in his summing up of the gentry . |
| 17 | He had been almost the first to express his belief in the certainty of a future Labour Government . |
| 18 | Apart from the South Wales Miners ' Federation , it had been almost the only major working class organization through which the Communists had consistently exercised influence . |
| 19 | It had been almost the unofficial waste basket papers were dumped there to be kept but no one had been through it carefully for perhaps a century . |
| 20 | If it had been only the Empress and a Court clique who desired war , things might have turned out differently , but given the wave of bellicosity which swept the entire nation , it would have required a miracle to produce a peaceful end to the crisis . |
| 21 | But that had been only the start : a test of the young man 's potential . |
| 22 | This seemed to strike and sober them … a thing which to all of them was so familiar , and to many had been only the subject of coarse jest . |
| 23 | But that , unusual though it was , had been only the outline , the skeletal framework of the man . |
| 24 | This had been especially the case in budgetary matters and the foundation of the CBO went some way towards correcting the situation . |
| 25 | Most people agreed that Pike had been out the night before working on it with an industrial fan . |
| 26 | Owen was not sure that whatever lesson Osman had learned had been quite the right one . |
| 27 | Slowing him down had been merely the preparation for the real poisoned phial . |
| 28 | On the YP he had been virtually the youngest photographer . |
| 29 | None of the five Moroccans had been down the Nfis and verbal information gleaned had been contradictory . |
| 30 | While they had been there the previous year there had been hardly any visitors . |