Example sentences of "[adj] had [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had already been explained in Sheffield , by Daniel . |
| 2 | ( In reality this had already been demonstrated by the JustText composition program but not released . ) |
| 3 | This had already been established in the White Paper , The control of land use , ( Cmd. 6537 ) in 1944 , with the unequivocal statement : But this matter was part of a wider exercise . |
| 4 | Made at Billingham , this had traditionally been handled by Agricultural Division [ one of the precursor divisions to form C&P ] . |
| 5 | The large Fiat saloon parked in the piazza looked ridiculous with a yellow child 's cot strapped to the roof , but this had seemingly been stipulated by the gang to make it easier for them to identify the car . |
| 6 | Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia . |
| 7 | This had previously been organized by the police but had not been seriously updated for years . |
| 8 | In her defence the artiste explained that this had only been caused by the persistent attention paid to her by mosquitoes that night . |
| 9 | This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join . |
| 10 | Since the late eighteenth century , there had developed the ‘ perfectionist doctrine ’ which claimed that ‘ government of the people by the people ’ was most appropriate , but according to Bryce , this had now been shown to be wrong . |
| 11 | He had converted the often illegible manuscript into clear Persian typescript ; this had then been translated into English by a team of Persian scholars in America . |
| 12 | The union had already shown some opposition to aspects of Government policy , but this had always been voiced in a guarded or indirect way in its newspaper . |
| 13 | This had mainly been achieved by improved standards of recording work done and quality control . |
| 14 | This had hitherto been prevented in a desire to help encourage mobile industries to locate in the less prosperous regions of the north and west . |
| 15 | This had originally been introduced in the 1930s with the aim of reducing what were regarded as unwarranted differentials in wages , and in particular as a means of improving the position of the lowest paid workers . |
| 16 | It was also known that the Kharg-5 had twice been damaged by Iraqi missiles in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 17 | The American critic W. Stephen Bush reflected on how the poor and lowly had only been tolerated in the theatre and all too often forced up into the gallery , but the movies had ‘ emancipated the gallery ’ and had ‘ wiped out for ever the odium and ridicule ’ that had always been shown towards its clientele . |
| 18 | When she hinted to Dona Marguerita that she was sometimes bored and would like to get out of the house and see more of the country , the old lady was quick to point out how much had already been done for her . |
| 19 | He was giving me 40 minutes on all matters transport and 10 had just been forfeited to the interests of the constituents of Derbyshire . |
| 20 | The British Factory as such had virtually been dissolved by 1812 , although a few ‘ Select Merchants ’ continued to hold meetings under the title of ‘ The Factory ’ until 1848 . |
| 21 | Three hundred and eight pounds was for the ladies open , four hundred and twenty for the outing to , two hundred and twenty six had already been paid for the coach , plus all the prizes . |
| 22 | The three had frequently been accused by Israel of being leaders of the intifada . |
| 23 | The MPs elected in 1918 came near to meeting the expectations of 1911 and many of these had indeed been selected as candidates before the war : in 1918 the average age rose sharply ( over half were over fifty ) , the proportion with interests in the land fell , and the proportion with interests in business rose from 24 to 41 per cent . |
| 24 | These had originally been delivered in two batches , 46 to the London UniteD and 54 to the MetropolitaN tramways . |
| 25 | In the absence of the Orkney guidelines , she asked to be told which guidelines had been used , and whether these had ever been placed before the Island 's Social Work Committee for their approval . |
| 26 | The moderate pluralism of bargains , balance , and compromise within rules of the game designed to ensure fair play and fair shares for all had somehow been transformed into the perverted and self-defeating hyperpluralism of strong groups and weak government operating on the basis of a free-for-all where might was right . |
| 27 | Of the latter , ten had never been vaccinated at all , and in two others no marks of vaccination were to be seen . |
| 28 | That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |
| 29 | That had never been asked of me before . |
| 30 | He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation . |