Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun sg] had be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event the conviction for capital murder was affirmed on the ground that ( the evidence being overwhelming ) there had been no miscarriage of justice , despite the majority 's view that the trial judge had been in error . |
| 2 | The Soren Larsen , which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line had been in dry dock for seven months . |
| 3 | Indeed , contrary to MAFF 's stubbornly held views that the LFA Directive can not be used to support conservation except as an ancillary to agricultural development , the then Minister of Agriculture , Mr Peter Walker , answered a question in the House on 10 December 1981 on how successful the LFA Directive had been in encouraging production in the UK . |
| 4 | An inquiry found that the vintage plane had been in good working order . |
| 5 | Consequently , the majority of participants in the group discussion had been in coal mining but now had jobs as unskilled workers in factories . |
| 6 | erm for various things and er one of the earliest er minor awards which the Education Committee had was to erm a girl from Ruth who wanted to take erm erm a course for erm the N P S , the Pharmaceutical er Society 's |
| 7 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 8 | The Lord Chancellor had been in a position to negotiate this with the Treasury . |
| 9 | Talks between Russia and Ukraine on Ukraine 's withdrawal from the rouble zone had been in progress since June ( for RCB-government conflict see p. 39057 ) . |
| 10 | The rumour mill had been in high gear since late January , when the fifty-seven year old Mr Brown announced he would retire by the end of the year to devote more time to ‘ parenting ’ and to the university founded by his family in Providence , Rhode Island ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 5 ) . |
| 11 | The first observation I was able to make when the books were gathered together was that , although almost all the press coverage had been about public libraries , since they were the focus of political controversy , only c . |
| 12 | I am sure that , if those on the Treasury Bench had been in local government , they would soon be facing surcharges for the abuse of public funds . |
| 13 | Idly he turned to the London addendum that had been recently updated while the shipping contract had been under negotiation . |
| 14 | Mr Fallon said he had talked to the longest serving officials in his department who said the expansion rule had been in place as long as they had been there . |