Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reich argued , however , that over thousands of years these essentially good characteristics of humanity had been repressed . |
| 2 | In the course of the exercise a great deal of knowledge had been gained about EPH activities and associated problems , and various other changes were made as a result of the investigation . |
| 3 | Indeed he agreed that a great deal of hypocrisy had been involved in what Macaulay had called one of the ‘ fits of morality ’ to which the British nation was periodically subject . |
| 4 | Unless there had been a general exodus of small proprietors , a good deal of land had been acquired by outsiders , possibly with a view to letting it to graziers . |
| 5 | The most worrying thing is not that life was imitating video game imitating life etc ; that my perception of reality had been fatally flawed by subliminal computer messages ; or even that my brain was becoming all-too transparent to any two-bob amateur psychiatrist who cared to take note . |
| 6 | She reached out to switch on the bedhead light and realised that the blackness of night had been replaced by grey gloom . |
| 7 | It could be that you were suddenly changing your motion , or it might be that an extra force of gravity had been switched on . |
| 8 | The stands are composed of a series of metal rods ( fig. 5.10 ) , and two possible methods of construction had been proposed . |
| 9 | Once the tasks which are particularly sensitive to the effects of even one night 's loss of sleep had been identified , it became feasible to attempt to establish how little sleep is enough to prevent any of the effects of sleep loss . |
| 10 | One of the chief reasons for its loss of support had been the protracted struggle between Prime Minister David Lange and his Finance Minister , Roger Douglas , the architect of Labour 's laissez faire approach to the economy , colloquially known as " Rogernomics " . |
| 11 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 12 | ‘ Staff numbers had doubled over the previous five to six years and a programme of change had been thrust upon us by the market , ’ explained . |
| 13 | If they had said no help would be forthcoming and no stock of food had been set aside and no extraordinary public works would be undertaken , they might have provided all three by stealth and so avoided a great nuisance . |
| 14 | Pre-Windscale , he recalled , two Secretaries of State had been on a collision course . |
| 15 | Total disaster had been averted , channels of communication had been established , and there were foundations on which to build . |
| 16 | The fortress was rebuilt in 1896 and by the outbreak of war had been further improved to accord with its new function as the Austrian Army 's forward base against the Russians . |
| 17 | In all the later , more organized phases of this type , at a time when the practice of art had been both distinguished and specialized , the institution of artists as part of the general social organization was still , as we have seen , normal . |
| 18 | Confusing the issue still further , a piece of metal had been found during cleaning with the number 42–106918 clearly written on it in pencil . |
| 19 | If Laura dropped in conversation that a piece of furniture had been in the family for generations , who was to argue ? |
| 20 | ‘ Where 's Papa ? ’ asked Victoria , as the door closed when the final piece of luggage had been carried in . |
| 21 | Without the use of the capital and small letters in combination , it would not have been possible to identify how this piece of notation had been synthesized . |
| 22 | ‘ A piece of wood had been driven clean through the heart , apparently after death . ’ |
| 23 | When I got out into the corridor I saw that a piece of wire had been strung between two beams on either side of the block and that a sort of ladder was leaning against it . |
| 24 | On top of Michel 's last a piece of paper had been clipped . |
| 25 | Late one afternoon , when she returned with Thomas from the beach , a piece of paper had been pushed through her letterbox . |
| 26 | ‘ Ah , ’ said Julia , thinking that she understood why this particular piece of information had been withheld . |
| 27 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon yesterday revealed 134 acres of land had been restored thanks to £4.3m in Derelict Land Grant . |
| 28 | There were two decisions which were binding where the rule of privilege had been applied to copied documents : The Palermo ( 1883 ) 9 PD 6 , and Watson v Cammel Laird & Co ( Shipbuilders and Engineers ) Ltd ( 1959 ) 1 WLR 702 . |
| 29 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 30 | Moreover , stage performances of opera had been a rarity during the war . |