Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |
| 2 | For a moment Merrill 's grey eyes clouded ; winding up Elise 's affairs after her death had been a painful business , but there was no one else to do it . |
| 3 | John soon made a niche for himself in Palace 's defence , making his debut at home to Bristol Rovers ( 1–0 ) the day after his signature had been obtained , and scoring his first goal for us in the 8–2 FA Cup demolition of Harwich and Parkstone three weeks later . |
| 4 | The judiciary looks set to remain the preserve of elderly , slightly unworldly men whose cast of mind is rooted in the aspirations about which Tawney had been so glowing . |
| 5 | The inspection produced no evidence of information on Iraq 's chemical and ballistic missiles programme , the issue about which suspicions had been expressed by UN weapons inspectors . |
| 6 | The shock of finding out about her child had been responsible for her husband 's fatal apoplexy , and she would feel guilty for the rest of her life . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know how much longer we can hope to keep this a clandestine relationship , ’ Luke said sardonically one Friday night when the immediate edge of the savage hunger for each other that built up during their partings had been soothed by a wildly abandoned reunion . |
| 8 | The two English ladies , they explained , had had a most regrettable , a most serious disagreement , during which voices had been raised and charges of murder , yes , murder , had been uttered . |
| 9 | When the chemists dismantled the apparatus , Eric Fawcett noticed that part of the reaction tube , through which ethylene had been admitted to the vessel , was coated with a white waxy solid . |
| 10 | Successive requests for its listing had been rejected . |
| 11 | Frederick planned to attack Lombardy from the east and west simultaneously , perhaps remembering the renowned pincer campaigns for which Charlemagne had been famous . |
| 12 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 13 | But although the imperial bureaucracy was growing in size , it was too small to take over all the duties for which landlords had been responsible . |
| 14 | Theoretically , therefore , the statutes made possible the social transformation for which liberals had been striving . |
| 15 | The early April agreements came in marked contrast to the generally poor atmosphere during March , when a visit to Washington by Toshiki Kaifu , the Japanese Prime Minister , had produced a tentative agreement on the sale of supercomputers to Japan [ ibid. ] — the first of three major trade areas for which Japan had been named under the " Super 301 " rule . |
| 16 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 17 | It was the vehicle for which Crawford had been looking . |
| 18 | Payment of the sum of £150 in every half year , ‘ until the whole of said sum of £2,090 19s. ’ ( the aggregate amount of the principal debt and costs , for which judgment had been entered ) ‘ shall have been fully paid and satisfied . ’ |
| 19 | The premature termination of pious and useful lives , for which supplication had been made , raised the whole question of the efficacy of prayer . |
| 20 | Subsequently the remnants of Rigunth 's treasure , for which Waddo had been responsible , and which Desiderius had secured , fell into his hands . |
| 21 | Gregory analysed all the planning applications in the area between 1957 and 1966 , and showed that development permission had been refused for 83 per cent of the 3,000 ha for which applications had been made . |
| 22 | Was she a rare and special creature , some fabulous beauty , of whom Jeopardy had been fond , or had she simply been a vessel for his seed ? |
| 23 | It was lively enough to marry Bellow to a ‘ stylish Radcliffe graduate ’ of whom Roth had been ‘ enamoured ’ — if we are to assume that The Facts has not imagined the connection . |
| 24 | The number of people in the UK infected with HIV has been estimated to be up to 100,000 , of whom AIDS had been officially reported in 4228 , by January 1991 . |
| 25 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 26 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |
| 27 | ‘ I bought the local paper at Bath Station and the Evening Standard at Paddington just to see how many of my team-mates had been named , but there was no mention of the squad , ’ he added . |
| 28 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 29 | ‘ If one of my lecturers had been murdered , I would n't like to hear someone gloating about the details . ’ |
| 30 | But I had not had a winner since December 27 when Mr Entertainer won at Kempton Park , and many of my horses had been sick . ’ |