Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Areas which had previously been central to the stealing networks were affected . |
| 2 | He had recently taken over this region , which had previously been subject to the Ptolemies in Egypt . |
| 3 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 4 | It surfaced , for example , in the suggestion that museums and art galleries , which had previously been open to the public free of charge , should begin to charge for admission . |
| 5 | Since the 1916 Rising in Dublin , the organization , which had always been prone to spies and informants , had grown very security conscious . |
| 6 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 7 | She then felt reluctant to go downstairs to face the man who had so recently been kissing her bare breasts , so she took extra time to straighten the bed where she had almost been willing to — no , longing to make love with Silas , she amended with a burst of mental honesty . |
| 8 | She had never been close to one before , and it was very big . |
| 9 | Was it true , what Maria said , that she had never been fair to Hester ? |
| 10 | By means of the co-operatives patients who had previously been subject to institutional peonage — payment of token wages in exchange for hospital work — have been able to earn wages comparable with those in the wider economy . |
| 11 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |
| 12 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 13 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 14 | It was argued that such covenants are often contained in conveyances , leases and mortgages , and that they had never been subject to the doctrine of restraint of trade and consequently the test of reasonableness . |
| 15 | They had all been lucky to be seen out with him . |
| 16 | He asked them to adopt a more professional approach , to harden their attitude and not capitulate when things became tough , as they had sometimes been prone to . |
| 17 | In 1976 , in response to a White Paper on devolution to Scotland and Wales , the CNAA commented that it had always been sensitive to the specific conditions and needs of Scotland , and that it might be appropriate for the CNAA to set up a Scottish Committee . |
| 18 | He had even been able to purloin half an hour of Basil 's time . |
| 19 | He wrote to Viola again , saying that a spiteful florist he had once been kind to had put the card in the flowers . |
| 20 | Harvey wondered whether he had ever been able to , even in the beginning . |
| 21 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 22 | Grunte was ancient , but he had always been nice to her . |
| 23 | He had always been close to her . |
| 24 | Half-way down the great boulevard a fakir shouted up to Dara that previously he had always been generous to the poor ; but now he understood that Dara had nothing to give . |
| 25 | He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia . |
| 26 | He had been awake nearly all the night with an attack of hiccups — something he had never been prone to . |
| 27 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 28 | The open fields themselves had always been subject to piecemeal enclosure , even as early as the fourteenth century . |