Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 2 | My clothes , hair , ears , trainers had all been full of broken bits of twig … |
| 3 | Hedley Byrne was considering a substantial advertising programme for a customer which previously had only been involved in limited programmes . |
| 4 | The inspiration for the experiment was the German Jugendherbergen accommodation which had long been popular with English trampers and cyclists . |
| 5 | Fortunately for him Kennedy had long been interested in British politics , and included Churchill among his heroes . |
| 6 | Such oblations to the darkness of the early evenings had not been necessary in previous years when , whatever the season , bright hour and night hour had been dedicated to the service of his flock there were Masses to be said , sick to be visited , meetings to be chaired , burial services to be conducted , bereaved to be comforted . |
| 7 | Murray Lawrence & Partners , which stressed that Mr Lawrence had not been involved in recent negotiations , said it would receive $20 million next January , another $20.8million in July and $22 million in January 1996 . |
| 8 | The contract included limits for external financing which had not been subject to overall control previously , and set RENFE a variety of financial objectives including a reduction in its call on state funds . |
| 9 | He described it as " regrettable " that positions taken in the UN Security Council by the EC 's two permanent Security Council members — the UK and France — had not been subject to prior agreement among the 12 EC members . |
| 10 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 11 | Suzi 's answer had not been one of unalloyed enthusiasm . |
| 12 | It had not been easy without existing contacts in the region , and their reports would have to be treated with caution for a while , but on the whole he felt he had achieved as much as could have been expected . |
| 13 | As we have seen , repeal feminists had not been opposed to moral disciplining but they had promoted it through the more ‘ feminine ’ domain of voluntary agencies , attacking the statist solutions of male professionals . |
| 14 | Preserving a balance throughout that had not been conspicuous in other media surveys of the Lockerbie investigation , Barron 's concluded its article with a statement from Paul Hudson , a lawyer from Albany , New York , whose sixteen-year-old daughter had died in the crash . |
| 15 | In the nineteenth century architects had largely been concerned with special buildings produced for civic , commercial , ecclesiastical and landowner clients . |
| 16 | Great-Aunt Alicia had always been susceptible to good-looking men , Sara reflected , and then had to admit to herself , but never feeble-minded about them . |
| 17 | The open fields themselves had always been subject to piecemeal enclosure , even as early as the fourteenth century . |
| 18 | His clinical approach to his job had always been one of complete professionalism . |
| 19 | However , the diplomacy which really mattered had always been that of sovereign states ; this final withering away of the claims of other entities to conduct some sort of foreign relations of their own was merely a kind of necessary tidying-up , the clearing of an undergrowth of quasi-diplomacy . |
| 20 | A U-boat captain of distinction in the First World War , he had headed the Abwehr since 1935 and despite being a loyal German had always been unhappy with National Socialism . |
| 21 | They point out that whereas merchants had always been welcome at royal courts as vendors of precious things , in the eighth century , and increasingly in the ninth and tenth centuries , kings embarked on more ambitious attempts to exploit systematically the resources of their realms . |
| 22 | ‘ I had always been interested in flying kites ever since I was young , so when someone offered me one for sale , I jumped at the chance , ’ added , whose wife has also become hooked on the sport . |
| 23 | A week earlier , Michael Heseltine , whose challenge in the leadership election contest brought about her fall , had still been adamant in public that he would not stand against her . |
| 24 | It was difficult to redirect rapidly the thinking of the Department of Industry , which had traditionally been interested in regional , not urban , policy . |
| 25 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |
| 26 | Hitherto , the ecumenical gatherings had chiefly been concerned with theological issues , even if matters of discipline such as the manner of determining the date of Easter had crept in . |
| 27 | Billy Kelly , the power workers ' leader who had then been instrumental in halting industry , promised that the electricity workers would again bring the province to a halt . |
| 28 | Russia in 1917 had indeed been ripe for socialist revolution ; Lenin had applied the science of society with brilliant precision ; and under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism the party had provided unfailing leadership of the working masses from that day to this . |
| 29 | The military authorities in Baku moved against the Azerbaijan Popular Front on Jan. 24 , arresting 43 leading members and raiding the offices of the National Defence Council , a radical group allied to the Front which had allegedly been responsible for co-ordinating arms supplies to Azerbaijani militants . |
| 30 | 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 . |