Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [noun sg] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before moving on to make use of the database , it was necessary to assess whether or not the data itself was valid for the organisation being studied , bearing in mind that so far the exercise had been a systems-thinking one , rather than a study of what was happening in practice . |
| 2 | Long ago the Vexin had been divided into two along the line of the River Epte : on the east bank the French Vexin held by the King of France , on the west the Norman Vexin held by the Duke of Normandy . |
| 3 | Presumably once the building had been a shepherd 's hut , even his home perhaps , but it was long derelict . |
| 4 | Skiving was not infrequent — the pupils slipping out once the register had been called — and one boy had a job without officially leaving school . |
| 5 | Because they were effecting the repair work themselves it had taken longer to complete than if they had let the Yard do it , but even so the tow had been under way again shortly after noon on the third day . |
| 6 | He had wondered , also , how much the mediciner had been able to guess about his own mind and nature . |
| 7 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 8 | well the brochures became , were dated each year , the service charge , a date was put on the service charges each year , that 's not to say they were , th they automatically changed , it depends on how long the scheme had been open |
| 9 | er the existing brochure might become out of date depending on how long the scheme had been open |
| 10 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 11 | He was unable to tell Mr Gannon 's family how long the infection had been present but he believed the infection had spread through Mr Gannon 's blood rather than through any internal rupture . |
| 12 | In fact , ’ I frowned , ‘ there 's no saying how long the enemy had been there , waiting . |
| 13 | Tabitha wondered how long the woman had been scratching a living on the waterways , complaining to uncaring passengers , never quite summoning up the cash or the strength to take the long haul home . |
| 14 | She had n't realised how quickly the stock had been gobbled up by the hungry flames . |
| 15 | Because one did not know how accurately the clock had been ticking during the processes of weighing , one could not know precisely the times at which the movements of the shutter occurred between which the radiation was released . |
| 16 | How quick the kid had been to recognise that his suit had been bought in New York . |
| 17 | how far the review had been useful in producing proposals for change ; |
| 18 | ( This is not , of course , a direct measure of how well the passage had been understood and , as we will see later , subsequent experiments have used more sophisticated measures of recall . ) |
| 19 | There too the balance had been lost . |
| 20 | However much the Donation had been perfected and refined by the twelfth century to fit into other papal arguments , there still remained the basic problem not so much as to the origin of power as to its descent . |
| 21 | Rain asked where precisely the box had been found . |