Example sentences of "had indeed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clergy control of the schools had indeed become a priority for the church leadership . |
| 2 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 3 | Taking up residence in Colchester went very well — though I was a bit surprised to find that the ‘ de-skilling ’ process mentioned by the resettlement officer had indeed affected me to some extent . |
| 4 | Professor Pacey had epitomised the forties as one of ‘ vacillation and disillusionment , ’ but the tide had indeed commenced to turn , a new era was opening up . |
| 5 | By 1989 InterCity director Dr john Prideaux was reassuring his customers that it was wrong to regard the APT as a failure ; it had indeed been a great design success ! |
| 6 | In many ways , then , it seemed that the pressure of welfare policy and social planning had indeed led both to greater equality and to more diffused prosperity as pioneers like Beveridge and theorists like Titmus had long forecast . |
| 7 | The army of social workers had indeed risen sharply . |
| 8 | In the September 1981 party conference it was revealed that Healey had indeed won , by the narrowest of margins , with 50.3 per cent of the popular vote ; the star of Tony Benn began to dim somewhat thereafter , not least because Michael Foot was able subtly to mount a movement of the old ( or ‘ soft ’ ) constitutionally-minded left against the ‘ hard left ’ of the neo-Marxist , unilateralist fringe . |
| 9 | The Conservatives , with 397 seats , had a huge majority of 142 ; the legacy of 1945 had indeed been reversed . |
| 10 | The movement begun in 1945 had indeed come full circle . |
| 11 | As Dean Acheson had commented back in 1962 , Britain had indeed lost an empire yet failed to find a post-imperial role . |
| 12 | And Maggie had giggled and had indeed been comforted . |
| 13 | Cinema admissions had indeed increased as people sought escape at the movies from the horrors of war , and the flow of French and Italian imports had been disrupted , but the screen-time made available had been almost totally absorbed by American pictures : by 1918 some 80 per cent or films shown in Britain were from the US . |
| 14 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 15 | Finding no way other than the direct question , he put it , and watched Yeo , unruffled , confirm that she had indeed put up £100,000 . |
| 16 | The following day the army announced that the government had indeed been sent home . |
| 17 | They seem to have accepted both that ( a ) some interest payments had indeed — but for the special rules — stood to escape tax ; yet ( b ) the normal January 1986 tax payment covered liability for that fiscal year ‘ including tax on interest paid after the end of a society 's accounting year ’ — which was , ‘ in a sense , to tax [ those sums ] twice ’ . |
| 18 | And the form of drug they had indeed been taking — a legal drug , as it happens , called alcohol — is under attack from the surgeon-general . |
| 19 | The speech , an undeniable disappointment , had indeed been given in an unusually dull monotone and at great speed . |
| 20 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 21 | Qaddafi had indeed abolished shaikhs , in the sense of government officials appointed by kin groups , but in every other respect they flourished . |
| 22 | ‘ You know , ’ Doone said slowly , ‘ I had indeed started to question others besides Mr Goodhaven . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Mark Payne , one of the tour organisers on the battle bus , had indeed received such a request on his mobile phone — from a senior aide in the yogic flying Natural Law Party . |
| 24 | Then Nottingham learned that Rugby had indeed beaten Harlequins so now the Beeston club have to draw or win at Orrell in their last match on April 25 and Rugby have to lose at Leicester . |
| 25 | But it emerged that Kenneth Littlejohn had indeed been recruited into MI6 two years previously — and that Lady Onslow was indirectly responsible for this . |
| 26 | Although no opinion could be expressed about the propriety of interventions in particular cases — the enquiry was not a court of law — the report recognized that sexual abuse was no myth , and that it had indeed occurred in Cleveland in many cases . |
| 27 | ( ‘ A ’ Squadron of the S.A.S. had indeed had some contact with S.O.E. agents in the Morvan , but the principal nature of their work had been somewhat different . ) |
| 28 | Fraser McLuskey kindly confirmed my belief that Leslie had indeed been in ‘ A ’ Squadron — it was with them that the Padre had dropped into France , and with them that he had carried out his ministry deep behind enemy lines . |
| 29 | The location of the flight , up the steep hillside , had indeed been suggested by James Barnes in 1902 , but the idea was not taken very seriously and forgotten altogether as the Telford plan developed . |
| 30 | Prior to 1730 there had indeed been a discernible participation by labouring people in public discourse , and , more specifically , a participation in literature . |