Example sentences of "[pron] had be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In doing so I like to think that we had been good ambassadors for the Department ; I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months . |
| 32 | The driver seemed as concerned to show off his excessive acceleration as if we had been prospective buyers and he a salesman . |
| 33 | The last time we had met , and that was fifteen or sixteen years before , we had been thirteen years old . |
| 34 | We had been eight weeks in basic training and even in the most placid of us the qualities of self preservation and selfishness were coming to the surface . |
| 35 | There had been unsuccessful attempts even further south ; the unfortunate Raleigh got himself out of the Tower by promising to find James 1 a supply of gold in Guiana , but he found no gold and he irritated the Spanish so much that they pushed James into having him executed in 1618 on the 1604 charge of treason . |
| 36 | But there had been unsuccessful sides in the past that had been packed with outstanding individuals who had not coalesced , or been moulded , into a good team . |
| 37 | There had been other setbacks . |
| 38 | At times there had been other options . |
| 39 | He asked whether there had been other policemen in the forest . |
| 40 | There had been other stresses too , and we felt that our first job was one of reassurance . |
| 41 | Prior to Dinh 's visit there had been other indications that relations were improving ; the Vietnamese , for instance , had allowed the family of top-level Vietnamese defector Hoang Van Hoan to visit him in Beijing [ see p. 29876 for Hoan 's defection in 1979 ] . |
| 42 | There had been other collapses , there were little ones all the time , and big ones too like the ‘ Tim and Teddy ’ shops ' rapid demise ( which had been simply because of their slovenly accounting ) , but Rose had a special place . |
| 43 | There had been two areas of particular difficulty . |
| 44 | As already noted , until about twelve months earlier , there had been two routes numbered 6 meeting at Mitcham . |
| 45 | He identified that robbery as occurring at Hainault ( where there had been two robberies ) . |
| 46 | The first two chapters of Moses and Monotheism were first published as articles in Imago ( 1937 and 1938 ) , and sought to establish , in purely historical terms , that there had been two figures with the name ‘ Moses ’ in Jewish development . |
| 47 | There had been two letters that year . |
| 48 | Meanwhile , it seems that there had been two successors in Stockport . |
| 49 | But by that time there had been two centuries of strife between Empire and Papacy and the Empire no longer had any special connection to the City of Rome . |
| 50 | On April 29 a church was stoned in Imbabah , another working-class suburb of Cairo and one in which there had been two days of violence by Moslem extremists against Christian churches and shops on Sept. 20-22 , 1991 . |
| 51 | There had been two schools of librarianship at Loughborough . |
| 52 | Over the entire period , there were twenty-two cases of under-25 leukaemia , when only eleven would be expected , and in one critical period — from 1964 to 1978 — there had been fifteen cases where six would have been normal . |
| 53 | There had been fifteen men in the compartment of the train trying to endure the rattling movement on the rails . |
| 54 | Among soldiers , policemen and civilians there had been 267 deaths in the same period as a result of " terrorist incidents " . |
| 55 | In Latin America , in North and South Africa , in some parts of Asia , and in the Australasian colonies , there had been tentative beginnings to railway-building in the middle of the century , but the great explosion of lines was not to come until its last decade . |
| 56 | Moreover , there had been six votes against the resolution and thirteen abstentions . |
| 57 | That was not impossible , for there had been six months between the X-rays , in which case The tumour could have already been on the way down when it was spotted . |
| 58 | Over the years there had been many tributes to her beauty and her dancing , but the one I particularly treasure appeared only recently . |
| 59 | She still had the pearls , but there had been many tears since she first wore them . |
| 60 | In Surere 's province , there had been many transgressions , despite the loss of privilege which was the only punishment he had dared impose , though there were rumours that in some cases he would have preferred to apply the death penalty . |