Example sentences of "[art] [noun] had [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had gathered the impression that the Prince had intended to be away only for a few days , ’ said Mahmoud . |
| 2 | The Treaty of Rome had been signed without her in March 1957 ; the EEC had come into being in January 1958 ; and de Gaulle had been recalled to power in France to solve the Algerian crisis in June that year . |
| 3 | Large sums of money were missing from the business , and while his colleagues now realised that her father was ill — and obviously had n't deliberately intended to commit any kind of fraud — nevertheless , the money had had to be replaced as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 5 | But the losses were quickly reversed and within minutes the index had recovered to be 4.7 ahead at 3040.1 . |
| 6 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 7 | The monster had promised to be with me on my wedding night , but he had not planned to kill me . |
| 8 | It was too much a paradigm of what the sport had become to be forgotten . |
| 9 | To this end , one of the younger Communist shop stewards in the plot had agreed to be the fall guy . |
| 10 | Outstanding differences on the issue had failed to be resolved during a visit to India by the Chinese Premier Li Peng in December 1991 [ see p. 38683 ] . |
| 11 | If this process was properly carried out as a matter of public law , then the consequential private law right of the plaintiff was simply a right to the accommodation which the council had decided to be suitable . |
| 12 | ‘ The barriers had ceased to be an effective protection for Names as those losing their shirts on marine syndicates are only too painfully aware , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ The barriers had ceased to be an effective protection for Names as those losing their shirts on marine syndicates are only too painfully aware , ’ he said . |
| 14 | With as much robustness as he could spare , he said that he did n't think the director had meant to be flippant . |
| 15 | Before acquisition they became aware that far from being the prosperous enterprise the business had appeared to be , it was in fact insolvent by reason of having incurred a number of bad debts . |
| 16 | However , they found no trace of Liam Shakespeare , whom the terrorists had claimed to be holding hostage . ’ |
| 17 | In an age when avoiding the point had grown to be associated with Modernism and was ceasing to look like an amusing trick , realism looked courageous , unblinking and unbowdlerising . |
| 18 | Lydia wished any sounds that the night had to offer to be separate and extrinsic from herself . |
| 19 | Someone more thoughtful than the rest had ordered to be shut the big river gates that were at the point where the Ankh flowed out of the twin city . |
| 20 | The King had moved from being " Defender of the Faith " — a title bestowed by the Pope in Rome in 1521 — to become the dissolver of the monasteries . |
| 21 | He was of course bound by the Court of Appeal decisions but managed to construe the memorandum of agreement so as to render clause 6 ineffective in fettering the right of the landlord to serve a notice to quit after the landlord had ceased to be a road widening authority . |
| 22 | Thomas Hardy , of an older generation , had implicitly claimed to be , and in the event had proved to be , a profoundly Virgilian poet . |
| 23 | By the 19th century the meat had ceased to be an ingredient and , in Mrs Beeton 's day , the mixture was cooked in elaborate , castle-shaped moulds . |
| 24 | However , save for that brief and embarrassing episode , the day had continued to be one of great enjoyment . |
| 25 | The day had proved to be a fine one . |
| 26 | One of the after-dinner speakers said the day had come to be regarded by tradesmen as the holiday of the year . |
| 27 | I imagined how the apple had come to be in my bed . |
| 28 | Not only did I not know how the apple had come to be on the bookcase , or in the house for that matter ; but how could it be perfect in every way . |
| 29 | Six metal beer kegs loaded on to a Swiss bound goods train which had stopped at Strasbourg on the same day the vagrant had claimed to be there . |
| 30 | The flesh had had to be gouged out with a knife , and the wound swilled with water and coated with powdered herbs . |