Example sentences of "[verb] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 140 people listed had been detained in a wave of arrests in Nouakchott and Nouadhibou beginning in November 1990 . |
| 2 | There was apparently an agreement between Pickard and Wasbrough allowing the latter to use the crank , and the engine-builder who was most incensed at the patenting of a device which he maintained had been known for centuries was James Watt [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | The bill was reportedly designed to restore the government 's Islamic credentials which its critics maintained had been undermined by Pakistan 's participation in the Western-dominated multinational force opposing Iraq in the Gulf [ see pp. 37639 ; 37641 ; 37694 ] . |
| 4 | Investigators from the Mine Safety and Health Administration ( MSHA ) report that in many cases dust had been vacuumed or blown out of sampling devices prior to being sent to inspectors . |
| 5 | If this is so , then these facilities are urgently needed , because it is intended to produce the revised OED in serial form , which means that forward cross-references could be rendered incorrect by revisions undertaken after the fascicles in which the cross-references appear had been published . |
| 6 | She had done a great deal of hiking in her university years , and using whatever cover nature provided had been the order of the day . |
| 7 | Britain 's willingness to compromise had been far less marked . |
| 8 | None of the five Moroccans had been down the Nfis and verbal information gleaned had been contradictory . |
| 9 | The judge ruled that the whole operation including the obtaining of fingerprints on the receipts had to be considered as a whole , and , since the evidence at the shop had admittedly been obtained from the appellants by a trick after the offences charged had been committed , he had a discretion at common law to exclude the challenged evidence if its admission would prejudice a fair trial . |
| 10 | In the present case the judge decided that , since the evidence from Stardust Jewellers had admittedly been obtained from the appellants by a trick and after the offences charged had been committed , he had a discretion to exclude the evidence if its admission would prejudice a fair trial . |
| 11 | Although , by now , many of the arguments it used had been well aired , the letter created a great impression . |
| 12 | Nearly one in three credit buyers said that the type of credit they used had been a standing arrangement , and so something they used virtually automatically . |
| 13 | The weapon used had been an imitation one . |
| 14 | This is to the effect that General Loehr prefers to surrender his forces to an Anglo-American command and not to Marshal Tito or Russian command in order to " save members of Croat armed forces and his own troops from Tito and the Bolsheviks " " On 7 May this appeal had been firmly rejected . |
| 15 | Witnesses reported that both he and the Bf109 he had first attacked had been seen to come down , and he was credited with one victory . |
| 16 | Chant might have applauded had be possessed two workable hands , but the flea 's message of corruption was spreading with agonizing speed . |
| 17 | " Coventry 's tenants are the worst in the country , " blurted out a Coventry councillor , But when some of his colleagues on the council , together with fellow Labour Party activists , surveyed the extent to which repairs correctly reported had been made good by the council on several large estates , they found that 70 per cent had not been carried out . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman will know , or at least his advisers will know , that regulation 72 was originally introduced in April 1987 to provide for the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases where an error in the determination of entitlement to benefit had been made by an official of the Department . |
| 19 | If the equality constraint to be added had been then just replacing the RHS of C with 4 would have changed the resource column entry in row ( b ) of P1/T1 to no pivoting would take place . |
| 20 | His solicitor , Mike Allan , told Sheriff Alexander Jessop that Say had been completely devastated when he arrived home to find a note from his wife , telling him their marriage was over . |
| 21 | In 1944 we may have had shattered limbs and horrendous wounds but we were young and until we were wounded had been fit . |
| 22 | Its awe-inspiring interior space was to an extent destroyed by the exhibition display demonstrating how the urge to discover and explore had been expressed throughout the ages . |
| 23 | A piece of pastureland adjoining had been given by the Laird , so dense was the population of the dead in that rank square ; but the people would not use it , they would rather return to the hallowed earth of the dead from whose collective and immortal life they had themselves briefly emerged … ‘ |
| 24 | A significant number of companies had been forced into liquidation , and potentially viable businesses capable of being rescued had been closed down , for want of such a floating charge . |
| 25 | For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son … |
| 26 | There had been rumours lately that the new owner was going to stop even local people from using the estate , because poaching had been going on , and some of the deer had been found wounded . |
| 27 | ‘ I had worked on Doctor Who since the middle of 1963 , the work involved had been very hard and I felt exhausted . |
| 28 | The matter would then have been dealt with in the ordinary way , after all counsel involved had been consulted . |
| 29 | More than two thirds of people surveyed in Gloucestershire said they were dissatisfied that the offender involved had been cautioned . |
| 30 | Indeed , well before it assembled , the governments involved had been quite aware that quarrels over precedence would be the first obstacle to peace-making and by no means the least serious . |