Example sentences of "[prep] these had be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 By Miliutin 's reckoning , no more than 1.8 million men could actually be enlisted , and 800,000 of these had been called to the colours already .
2 And er we , we did erm we , we started making er bench models because we found quite a lot of these had been made in Germany .
3 Apart from the counties a number of urban areas had grown up and many of these had been granted Charters of Incorporation giving them varying powers of local administration .
4 At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years .
5 Nevertheless , Tories did remain committed to the principles of passive obedience , non-resistance and indefeasible hereditary right , but they were to argue that none of these had been compromised by the Glorious Revolution .
6 Respondents were asked to say to what extent ( if at all ) each of these had been used in their own review .
7 Anyway a gang of these had been caught and the crowd now vented their fury by pelting them with rotten eggs whilst householders tipped chamber pots from upper stories .
8 About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all .
9 Of thirty-four statutes repealed along with the general act in 1824 , twenty had been passed since 1714 ; ten of these had been passed in Dublin and did not apply to England and one was specific to Scots miners .
10 Some of these had been published in periodicals like Country Life and the wildlife journals , but the best had never been shown .
11 Some 5,000 Western men remained trapped in Kuwait and Iraq , however , and there were reports confirming that some 500 of these had been taken as a " human shield " to sensitive installations [ see also above ] .
12 Dental appointments were booked for seven ( 70 per cent ) of the children whose teeth had not recently been inspected , and at least four of these had been carried out within three months of the first assessment .
13 At the end of Chapter 3 it was pointed out that the 1960s had seen a series of reform proposals in British government and that by 1980 most of these had been carried out in some form though the question of devolution had still to be settled .
14 Each of these had been proscribed in law .
15 Two years later , by the time the second edition was published , most of these had been rescued and were off the danger list .
16 Some 50 of these had been ignited earlier in the war in an apparent attempt to use smoke to disrupt the allied air campaign .
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