Example sentences of "[noun] had be [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within two hours eight battleships and over 180 aircraft had been either destroyed or severely damaged , and there were over 3000 casualties . |
| 2 | My intervention , such as it was , became well known and earned me the enmity of two or three people whose awards had been either altered or struck out . |
| 3 | When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed . |
| 4 | In both instances it was the sister whose earnings had been substantially restricted or reduced . |
| 5 | But , whether the woman had been heavily accented or not , Fabia felt a small let-up in her tension that here was someone who spoke her own tongue . |
| 6 | Kenamun 's deadline came and went , but Taheb , with her ease of access to information , heard nothing to suggest that the Medjay captain had been either dismissed or taken off the case . |
| 7 | Disgruntled Conservative agriculturalists and imperialists resented Bonar Law 's dropping of the ‘ food taxes ’ in the winter of 1912–13 , and although he survived the initial furore sparked by this decision it was not clear that the ill feeling had been fully dissipated or his leadership wholly secured . |
| 8 | Before this , however , potential rivals had been either ignored or treated ruthlessly by the BUF . |
| 9 | Moreover , the officer of arms making the visitation was directed to enquire into the lives of all those using a title of honour or dignity such as knight , esquire or gentleman , and if such a title or coat of arms had been falsely assumed or usurped , the offender was to be publicly denounced by proclamation . |
| 10 | Sadly , the rest of his collection of paintings and furniture had been badly charred or destroyed . |
| 11 | Death sentences had been judicially imposed or carried out in 1990 in 90 countries ; the death penalty was retained by every country in the Middle East , with Iran showing the region 's highest number of death sentences ( estimated at more than 700 ) , while in China the report recorded 750 executions , the highest number since 1983 . |
| 12 | Post mortem examinations were carried out to discover if the girls had been still born or died later . |
| 13 | The report was careful also to underline atrocities committed by rebel movements , particularly in Peru and Sri Lanka , where , it claimed , innocent civilians had been indiscriminately murdered or maimed . |
| 14 | Whereas on earlier occasions where bad news or unfavourable developments had occurred , the view had prevailed — at least in public utterances — that the Führer had been badly counselled or had been kept uninformed , in the case of Stalingrad Hitler was directly implicated in the catastrophe . |
| 15 | There were no bridges left standing between Verona and Rome and , according to Eric , who from now on was to travel this way once a week , every village south of Florence on the main road to Viterbo and Rome had been either destroyed or severely damaged . |