Example sentences of "[adj] had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far the French had been fired on from the field on their left , now they would see an officer on the right of their advance . |
| 2 | THE French had been forewarned . |
| 3 | Military leaders in the sixteenth century who could not find wars to fight elsewhere might turn on their own sovereigns and fight at home ; there had been some decades of civil war in England after the English had been driven out of France in the middle of the fifteenth century . |
| 4 | Once the British had been driven from the European mainland , they had lost virtually all of the general intelligence that armies gather on their enemy 's positions , his deployment , and his defences . |
| 5 | The British had been taken to the cleaners because foolish politicians in post-war Britain had elected to produce sociologists instead of engineers , and the predictable end result was that Britain had been short on wealth creators and long on spenders . |
| 6 | All along its length rotundas about ten feet high had been set up . |
| 7 | By 1972 , presumably to guide people in the same predicament , posts five feet high had been driven into the ground beside the track . |
| 8 | And the generals who had grown too popular had been commanded to perform one last service by falling upon their swords . |
| 9 | The nine set free had been detained at civilian and military sites ; some appeared to have Middle Eastern backgrounds . |
| 10 | I assumed , in my usual mechanistic way that that meant that everything that looked like being cancerous had been cut out . |
| 11 | The 21 year old had been treated for depression and had been prescribed tablets by his doctor on 15 occasions . |
| 12 | The patient , a fine girl of about twelve years old had been admitted unconscious to the ward . |
| 13 | By 1980 , after the first two out of a total of four literacy campaigns , the illiteracy rate for the population over fifteen years old had been brought down to 72.2 per cent from 93 per cent at independence . |
| 14 | But the Treasury issued a counter-statement saying that nothing improper had been asked of civil servants by ministers . |
| 15 | During this time , the Central Wales Railway proper had been incorporated by an Act of August 1859 , to build a single line of track from Knighton to Llandrindod . |
| 16 | The following had been written : ‘ I entrust to my sons that if one should die before the other leaving no children he should make over his share to his surviving brother ; but if both die childless I wish the whole estate to pass to my granddaughter Claudia . ’ |
| 17 | W A Blackburn QC , sitting as deputy judge of the High Court , considered whether notice of the total amount payable had been given to the debtor . |
| 18 | Main rotor drive system damage somewhat similar had been reported in the case of an Exec that suffered in-flight break-up while in cruising flight over Quebec . |
| 19 | Nothing explicit had been said but she knew her relationship with Urquhart had crossed a new frontier : he had become an enemy . |
| 20 | The Japanese had been trained in jungle warfare , and knew how to trek across country and live on the jungle . |
| 21 | Korean gentry and bourgeoisie could only be dealt with after the Japanese had been removed . |
| 22 | The PVO increased its show of strength , choosing as a special focus the little town of Tantabin , 40 miles from Rangoon , where the first BNA action against the Japanese had been staged in 1945 . |
| 23 | Moon Beach Central had been built in the style of a temple . |
| 24 | It seems likely that the files of cases which had ‘ no further action ’ or were cautioned would be returned to the police quickly , so we inferred that those cases not followed-up had been tried in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 25 | His lordship pointed out that Rasbora Ltd. had been formed by Mr. Atkinson for the purpose of buying the boat and with the intention that the boat was to be used only by Mr. Atkinson and his friends ; there was no intention to hire it out . |
| 26 | He turned to the Special Branch detective behind the screen and asked whether the prosecution knew that a man was awaiting trial in Crumlin Road Prison , Belfast , because the murder weapon used at Abbey Meat Packers , Ltd. had been found in his house . |
| 27 | Something real had been left behind when she 'd walked away from Castell Rocamar , and she felt only half alive . |
| 28 | So far as the seamen were concerned , the impossible had been achieved . |
| 29 | Two of the most daring had been observed in the garden by Miss Watson , the headmistress , who lived across the green at the school-house , and she had delivered dire warnings during assembly the next morning . |
| 30 | By January of 1802 a fence of quick had been planted all round the site and John Wing reported that the foundations were dug out and in part laid . |