Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] had be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Laura dropped in conversation that a piece of furniture had been in the family for generations , who was to argue ? |
| 2 | The ideology of respectability had been in the process of articulation throughout the century . |
| 3 | My baptism of fire had been with Leon Brittan who was Chief Secretary until the 1983 general election . |
| 4 | As I said before , the unity of Judaism had been in question since the time of Alexander . |
| 5 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 6 | The camp was a most as noisy as the point of work had been during the day . |
| 7 | Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt . |
| 8 | Many of us wished that the same breadth of opportunity had been on offer in our own day . |
| 9 | The state of emergency had been in force since 1987 and covered the 10 predominantly Kurdish provinces . |
| 10 | This shape of coffin had been in use throughout western Europe since at least the middle of the fourteenth century , as shown by an illuminated manuscript in the Royal Library , Brussels , depicting the burial of victims of the Great Plague of Tournai in 1349 . |