Example sentences of "[det] [Wh pn] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 2 | There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour . |
| 3 | Overall , when the children on the course were compared to those in the control groups , it was found that none of them had taken up smoking and some who had been using snuff before the start of the programme had now given up . |
| 4 | Of course , there were some who had been bought by ORDEN , even secondary school pupils who were members of the Paramilitary groups . |
| 5 | Chester , who was soon to accompany Coleridge on the journey into Europe , was yet another who had been drawn to him ‘ as flies are to honey ’ , and now trotted happily beside his two talkative companions , bow-legged and awestruck . |
| 6 | Would a rescuer be denied an action on the ground of ex turpi causa , e.g. if one burglar was injured attempting to assist another who had been placed in danger by the dangerous condition of the house they were breaking into ? |
| 7 | Yet among those who watched them on television screens as they did so were many who had been born before there were aeroplanes , and even before the motor-car had become a familiar object . |
| 8 | It is perhaps worth remembering that the Beveridge Report was published as early as 1942 ; it embodied the aspirations of so many who had been disappointed by the failure of Lloyd George 's ‘ land fit for heroes to live in ’ to materialise . |
| 9 | In rural areas villagers had been detained and their houses had been burned in connection with land disputes , names were given of people held for up to 10 years without charge , and many who had been detained spoke of beatings in prison . |
| 10 | Elsewhere , typhus carried off many who had been weakened by starvation ; in Chesterfield the pestilence was almost certainly bubonic plague . |
| 11 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |
| 12 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 13 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 14 | First to suffer were the relatives of those who had been kidnapped by the Joint Command . |
| 15 | This view could not easily be maintained as the evidence mounted that , despite their negotiations with Sir Herbert Samuel and the TUC 's meeting with the Prime Minister on 12 May , the strike had been called off without any guarantees that those who had been involved would not be victimized by employers and that there would be no immediate resumption of negotiations between the coal miners and the coal owners . |
| 16 | So , for example , with regard to observance of the Passover , the pre-exilic ruling was for ‘ thee and thy son ’ , with no further qualification , to keep the feast , whereas in the exilic and post-exilic legislation the ordinance was modified to count only those who had been circumcised . |
| 17 | If any of those who had been turned away chose to complain , they would meet the same bored lack of interest . |
| 18 | On the other hand , more efficient production was a significant benefit to those who had been on courses . |
| 19 | The survey showed that only one-third of those who had been on courses generated the training themselves . |
| 20 | Indeed , many Englishmen , even those who had been on the side of parliament during the Civil War , like Richard Baxter , had never wanted to abolish the monarchy altogether . |
| 21 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 22 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 23 | But many of the symptoms asked about were reported for similar proportions of those who had been in residential homes and those who had not ; these were pain , trouble with breathing , vomiting or feeling sick , drowsiness , sleeplessness , dry mouth or thirst , depression , loss of appetite , difficulty swallowing , dizziness , bed sores , an unpleasant smell , and backache . |
| 24 | But if the comparison between those who had been in a home and others is confined to those for whom relatives , neighbours or friends were interviewed , there is still a difference : 31 per cent against 19 per cent . |
| 25 | Among this older group 46 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more were admitted , 75 per cent of the others . |
| 26 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 27 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 28 | Those who had been watching him work believed that in spite of the traumas , Hopper the actor was a star , and Hopper the director had completed an extraordinarily good film which , according to one description , included some ‘ hauntingly beautiful footage ’ . |
| 29 | Members who had been earlier supporters of television were confirmed in their views ; those who had been uncertain found themselves in favour ; several original opponents became supporters . |
| 30 | Eight days after leaving , the new convoy was back at the desert rendezvous , much to the relief of those who had been chosen to stay behind . |