Example sentences of "[conj] had be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? ) |
| 2 | ‘ The builder had either spent three weeks cleaning it or had been kept in pristine condition , ’ says Darren . |
| 3 | Enraptured by the celluloid screen , we revelled in the romance that had been denied to us , or had been put in cold storage ‘ for the duration , . |
| 4 | Legislation had been tried before , from the late fourteenth century onwards , but more effort was made to enforce the 1651 Act than had been done in the past . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 . |
| 6 | The improvement in January was better than had been expected in December , sales of both vehicles and parts and accessories increased and the trade is looking forward to a further improvement in February . |
| 7 | The difference between these two values might be very substantial , particularly where development of a far more valuable character than had been anticipated in 1947 took place . |
| 8 | The Labour Party rejected the United Peace Alliance , though with more reasoned argument than had been used in dismissing the United Front on previous occasions . |
| 9 | At Brêtigny , on 8 May 1360 , a treaty was concluded under which Edward was to receive much less than had been envisaged in the Treaty of London . |
| 10 | He found six different amphibians — more than had been found in the whole of Europe in rocks of 330 million years old . |
| 11 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
| 12 | Recently , in fact , with only bathroom tissue , hand soap and water , I cleaned up an acrylic painting that had been hanging in a office for 24 years . |
| 13 | Few fights — occasionally , you 'd get a man who 'd been gashed in the face with a bottle , that had been drunk in the bar and you 'd be called in and you 'd take him to hospital . |
| 14 | But this time , the voices were not in the distress of agony that had been heard in the reception area . |
| 15 | When the political and moral credibility of the Soviet system collapsed in 1956 , something that had been slumbering in the depths of Sartre 's consciousness was suddenly reawakened . |
| 16 | Planting began in 1969 , but in 1981 , 15 years after the scheme had begun , the whole was sold off for a fraction of almost the billion dollars that had been invested in it . |
| 17 | The electrodes that had been implanted in its brain had been removed ; the scars from the surgery had healed and grown over with fur . |
| 18 | A radical alternative to the peneplanation model that had been generated in humid temperate landscapes was pediplanation as conceived and developed by the geologist L.C. King . |
| 19 | ( b ) In the middle is the song of a chaffinch that had been reared in complete isolation , unable to hear any sounds at all ; it resembles the normal song , but is a crude version of it . |
| 20 | The plantation director was standing on an upturned crate that had been placed in position for him beneath the light , and despite the early hour he was already wearing his customary pitch helmet , the sleeves of his bush shirt were rolled high on his brown muscular arms and he was bare-legged in shorts , heavy jungle boots and short thick socks . |
| 21 | For Bridgnorth had made me resolve that I would never more go among a people that had been hardened in unprofitableness under an awakening ministry … |
| 22 | Further details were published by the Egyptian press on March 10 of an alleged Islamic fundamentalist plot that had been uncovered in February . |
| 23 | The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft . |
| 24 | Our doctors were delighted for they knew they would soon need expert surgical help , but secretly they enjoyed showing the ‘ greats ’ who had little rooms adjoining each other on that top floor , the good work that had been done in ‘ the acute exanthemata . ’ |
| 25 | With an almost unanimous vote at its 40th congress in Geneva , the party said that the word " communism " was being dropped because of all that had been done in its name . |
| 26 | Indeed , after the lord pope had heard sufficient arguments from both parties , he decreed with the authority of the apostolic see that the same archbishop should demolish the church at his own expense , revoking completely everything that had been done in this matter . |
| 27 | They put their trust in a military solution to right the wrong that had been done in 1688 , and looked to France for help . |
| 28 | Birds of paradise skins that had been prepared in the traditional way by natives of Papua New Guinea had had their legs removed ; for a considerable time even respectable scientists thought there might be a land where birds never settled . |
| 29 | By retaining the other elements of the plan of this block , the main entrance that had been created in 1959 could be maintained as the ‘ front door ’ with the bathroom/WC being reached from the adjacent entrance hall ( Fig 48 ) . |
| 30 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |