Example sentences of "[adj] had be done " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 2 | In Rutland the jurors swore on 25 July that a great part of the county had been afforested by Henry II , though there is evidence that this had been done by Henry I. Subsequent returns for Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and Somerset also demanded extensive disafforestments . |
| 3 | This had been done to give greater flexibility for time off to do the farm work . |
| 4 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 5 | The company reported on 30 May that this had been done . |
| 6 | When this had been done they made to go downstairs again , but I was in front of them going down two at a time . |
| 7 | Nigel never looked at any building before examining the head , and I had learnt never to become too enthused about interiors until this had been done . |
| 8 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |
| 9 | Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House . |
| 10 | Once this had been done , it was possible to test the new proposal by inspecting the appropriate region of the sky through a telescope . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'll leave arrangements of stones , ’ suggested Floy , and Snodgrass had said that he believed this had been done on Earth . |
| 12 | When this had been done , immigration officers began to process the passengers , examining their papers and indicating whereabouts on the pier to expect their luggage . |
| 13 | ‘ And if none of this had been done what sort of death duties would have been charged ? ’ |
| 14 | Once this had been done , the necessary reporting programs were written . |
| 15 | The acquisition contractor was Geoteam Exploration , using the vessel Nordic Explorer to deploy four 3000 metre streamers — the first time this had been done in the North Sea . |
| 16 | Since so much had been done peacefully through economic change , population increases , emigration and Parliamentary legislation , it is not surprising that ministers , like others , naturally assumed that progress through the same channels would continue ad infinitum . |
| 17 | What these sewers carried was not sanitary ordure — that continued to be collected or even — illegally — dumped in cesspits : for the cost of separating out the effluent so frightened the Municipal Council of the city that even by 1870 nothing much had been done . |
| 18 | The First World " War interrupted the process , but it is clear that much had been done by 1914 . |
| 19 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
| 20 | Rut , when all had been done to make provision more level and selection more scientific , a stubborn error of 10 per cent would remain . |
| 21 | Refusal ‘ Clyde Walcott , the match referee , was entirely satisfied that nothing illegal had been done to the ball at the Oval and we want to point out that there was no suggestion of it being tampered with . ’ |
| 22 | There was confirmation from Cathery , not only that this was true , but that , in the absence of Wilson in America , everything possible had been done to meet the complaints of the Southampton Branch . |
| 23 | ‘ From the information submitted by the United Kingdom , the Commission is of the opinion that little had been done by way of systematic work on the problem of lead in drinking water in Scotland between the adoption of the Directive and 20 July 1985 . |
| 24 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 25 | The difference between the early days and 1976 was that cars were going a lot faster — Lauda himself had been the first to break the magical seven-minute lap in 1975 — and that very little had been done to make the track safer . |
| 26 | If that had been done by a chief inspector of a Labour local authority for a Labour think tank , Conservative Members would have been the first on their feet to complain about Mr. Burchall . |
| 27 | Beer that that had been done . |