Example sentences of "the [noun sg] had be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response had been massive strikes in the public sector . |
| 2 | The wafer had been three inches long and one and a half inches wide , and had been inserted between the two strands of leather precisely against the young man 's backbone . |
| 3 | The gang had been intimidating passengers and had attacked the driver and a woman guard . |
| 4 | STAFF TRAINING The details have yet to be revealed but Mr Pearson said the council had been encouraging firms to train their staff since 1983 . |
| 5 | In the beginning all the band had was one hook line . |
| 6 | The microscope , improving radically in the early nineteenth century so that its images no longer had coloured fringes all around them , was perhaps as important as the telescope had been two centuries earlier . |
| 7 | Clearly cancelling the preview had been one option the producers had discussed . |
| 8 | The king had been many years a widower . |
| 9 | He had missed his church very much indeed , but our Vicar and the Curate had been constant visitors , and we were both of us upheld by the knowledge of their prayers and of many friends at St Peter 's . |
| 10 | The tree had been another meeting place of their childhood , and she knew the flaky bark and cracked pavement by heart . |
| 11 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 12 | Mr Threlfall said that according to the service 's records the response time to the incident had been 24 minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ The river had been ten feet up the previous week and I thing the chub had been pushed into the swim , ’ said Mick , 33 . |
| 14 | Suddenly I was aware that all my actions since the attack had been aimless distractions — action for the sake of action . |
| 15 | Azerbaijan accused Armenian forces of shooting down the helicopter , while Armenia claimed that the cause had been poor weather . |
| 16 | Forty perished and three years later the Scottish Parliament voted that the killing had been unlawful murder . |
| 17 | But Webb 's strict ethical judgement that , once the couple had been pronounced man and wife , Benjamin was not entitled to put them asunder , disregards the fact that Benjamin has rescued Elaine from a loveless marriage before it is consummated . |
| 18 | When a younger and less sophisticated Hank had come quietly through the back gate in search of the garage , the couple had been busy planting a lilac tree . |
| 19 | The floors of the sheds in the quarry had been bare boards or stamped earth . |
| 20 | The audition had been one thing , the work–g through the part another — which is something it seems very hard for the audition process to make proper allowance for . |
| 21 | Stirling nevertheless felt that the trip had been English saboteurs , Maclean demanded . |
| 22 | It is only at this point that the newspaper reader learns that the rapist and the victim had been next door neighbours at the time of the original offence . |