Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [noun] [noun pl] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excessive attention , so the criticism ran , had been paid to the activities of an amorphous , disorganised working-class movement , with the result that the revolutionary potential of the working class embodied in party or trade union organisations had been misrepresented . |
| 2 | Black 's surf and Neil Young fascinations had been taken in when The Beach Boys ' ‘ I Know There 's An Answer ’ and ‘ Youngy 's Fuckin' ’ Up ’ played on the PA before his entrance . |
| 3 | Black 's surf and Neil Young fascinations had been taken in when The Beach Boys ' ‘ I Know There 's An Answer ’ and ‘ Youngy 's Fuckin' ’ Up ’ played on the PA before his entrance . |
| 4 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 5 | The next day reports indicated that all oil installation , ports and water desalination plants had been mined by the Iraqi forces . |
| 6 | In all four schools specific study and library skills initiatives had been born out of , or given impetus by , the project . |
| 7 | He added the scheme contravened existing structure plans and traffic risk fears had been voiced by local residents . |
| 8 | For example , as far back as 1923 a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence had looked into the distribution of doctors , dentists and hospital services in a future war ( in effect , tasks that were taken up by the Emergency Medical Service in 1938 ) , and air raid precautions had been discussed within Whitehall since 1924 by the Air Raid Precautions Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence ( which relinquished responsibility for this to the Home Office in 1935 ) |
| 9 | By 1926 new and much more powerful express passenger and freight locomotive designs had been prepared to his directions and , whilst these were nullified by opposition within a divided management structure , in 1927 the Royal Scot express locomotives were introduced for principal main-line services . |
| 10 | Later , after various discussions had taken place , and LIFESPAN mail messages had been sent to a manager who had failed to respond , the originator of the latest DC received two agreements and one rejection . |