Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun sg] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then , only the foundation courses of the extensive curtain-wall had been laid , the main effort having gone into the construction of the immense great tower or donjon . |
| 2 | Whitlock suddenly noticed that a member of the Zimbalan mission had been watching them . |
| 3 | By the time he had driven through , the door of the integral garage had been swung up and open by those waiting anxiously in the house . |
| 4 | The narrow staircase that had been revealed when Guy had removed a grille from the wall of the tiny chamber had been so black that Isabel had forgotten her embarrassment at their surroundings . |
| 5 | Somehow , after calls for the resignation of the general secretary had been rejected because of support from his old shipmates on the north east coast , the union managed to take out a loan and to survive . |
| 6 | In previous years the selection of the carnival queen had been organised by elimination contests in the town and surrounding villages , but 30 years ago the committee asked that young ladies should send in a copy of a recent photograph . |
| 7 | However , it was reported on May 7 that 35 leading officials in the newly established intelligence service department of the Interior Ministry had been removed following leaks of secret information , and the screening of various sections of the security services was reported to be well advanced or completed by early May . |
| 8 | In other years , none of the ozone-depleted air had been blown over Ushuaia . |
| 9 | Most commentators concluded from this that the aim of the alleged conspiracy had been to prevent Kim Jong Il , 49 , from inheriting power upon the death of his father . |
| 10 | After the Elizabethan conquest there had been the usual influx of people wanting land , but the landlords of the traditional type had been supplemented by London-based land-holding companies and also by peasant emigrants from Scotland . |
| 11 | Of the 28 Supreme Court judges , 13 were dismissed ; it was reported on April 25 that 12 " provisional " members of the Supreme Court had been appointed . |
| 12 | Only six per cent of the vacant land had been landscaped and maintained . |
| 13 | From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands . |
| 14 | It was at least gratifying to know that his initial dislike of the young man had been justified . |
| 15 | On Feb. 6 , with the agreement of the authorities in the Georgian autonomous republic of Abkhazia , government troops established control in Sukhumi , where rallies in support of the deposed President had been taking place daily . |
| 16 | Indeed , the basis of the new scheme had been proposed by the Law Society itself in a memorandum published in 1968 . |
| 17 | The creation of the new presidency had been among the radical proposals announced by Gorbachev at a meeting of the CPSU central committee on Feb. 5-7 as part of a draft new party platform [ see pp. 37234-35 ] . |
| 18 | Later , when Jerusalem was the capital , as soon as the appearance of the new moon had been proved by credible witnesses before the Sanhedrin , messengers were dispatched from there to announce the commencement of the new month . |
| 19 | The Constitutional Committee , meeting in plenary session on Oct. 16 chaired by Yeltsin , called on the Supreme Soviet to delay convening the Congress until the first draft of the new Constitution had been presented to the standing parliament . |
| 20 | Concern that this uncontrolled expansion of the private sector had been siphoning off funds that might have been more cost effectively used in home based community care led to the government commissioning reviews of resource management and quality of care . |
| 21 | If a similar statement of support for the Government 's deregulation of the private sector had been made in 1979 , there would have been no decline — but there was , because that sector continued to feel under threat from the Opposition . |
| 22 | When he and others advocated extra divisions in the Edwardian period they could not have foreseen that the formation of a Third Division in 1920 would create an extra demand for players of talent at a time when a large part of the male population had been wiped out in a world war . |
| 23 | In any case they were sitting upstairs in Willi 's little loggia ( the gallery of the Spa Rooms had not lent itself to conversion into boxes , but parts of the curved balcony had been sectioned off with wrought-iron grills into small loggias for distinguished guests ) . |
| 24 | Details of the six-point treaty had been broadcast by Phalangist Voice of Lebanon radio on May 17 . |
| 25 | A seven-fathom section of the mooring cable had been removed and replaced with much lighter chain which then gave way during the next storm . |
| 26 | Much of the recent work had been written at the ‘ macro ’ level , relying on statistics of national income or on general surveys of the economy . |
| 27 | Very little of the vast continent had been explored . |
| 28 | He told them that around £10m of the lost cash had been recovered and a payment of this would be made . |
| 29 | The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] . |
| 30 | A laudatory reference to the foreign policy of the Soviet Union had been excluded and the Manifesto expressed opposition to the National Government 's proposals for rearmament . |