Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | The stands are composed of a series of metal rods ( fig. 5.10 ) , and two possible methods of construction had been proposed . |
| 3 | Pre-Windscale , he recalled , two Secretaries of State had been on a collision course . |
| 4 | Total disaster had been averted , channels of communication had been established , and there were foundations on which to build . |
| 5 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon yesterday revealed 134 acres of land had been restored thanks to £4.3m in Derelict Land Grant . |
| 6 | Moreover , stage performances of opera had been a rarity during the war . |
| 7 | Since the reign of Richard III Acts of Parliament had been regularly printed , and the massive legislation of the 1530s was conveyed by the press to those entrusted with its execution . |
| 8 | Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations . |
| 9 | Strips of cloth had been tied to the thorn , as on trees dedicated to strange gods in West Africa , the Near East and India , each strip a supplication . |
| 10 | In this study , the usage rates for the lobon-gur solution were found to be poor , ( corroborating the findings of the programme monitors mentioned above ) ; less than 10% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with oral rehydration therapy . |
| 11 | Hence , in the union ( an area of approximately 21,000 people ) in which the rice-salt solution had been taught , only 6.5% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with this mixture . |
| 12 | In a nearby union in which the lobon-gur solution had been taught , 14.9% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with this mixture . |
| 13 | More than 200,000 cases of AIDS had been officially reported to WHO by more than 150 countries by the end of 1989 , and it was estimated that between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 people were HIV-positive . |
| 14 | On Nov. 23 it was announced that 100,000 cases of corruption had been uncovered during 1989 , three times more than in 1988 . |
| 15 | Air shipments of plutonium had been " routine " for 20 years , the authority said . |
| 16 | Signs of change had been evident within various protest movements , like the Teetotallers , from the 1850s when they realized that without state action they could not achieve their goals . |
| 17 | Once the attitudes toward the acquisition of material goods and worldly signs of success had been acquired , then any decline in religious beliefs would leave the attitudinal changes unaffected . |
| 18 | Since this internegative was at the same stage as Yuricich 's dupe , two generations of film had been skipped to produce a higher quality shot in which the join is much harder to detect . |
| 19 | In Africa , although hundreds of prisoners of conscience had been freed during 1989 , major human rights abuses persisted , especially in Ethiopia , Liberia , Somalia and Sudan where government troops were fighting insurgents . |
| 20 | Mr Barnett said he did not believe any rules of racing had been broken , so he did not believe the Jockey Club could hold a disciplinary hearing . |
| 21 | Our second meeting , once the regulative café au lait had been taken and a strenuous five hours of talk had been put behind us , was concluded by a guided tour of his beloved Montreal , whose night-time allurements were enthusiastically described in a car hired for the occasion , and concluded by a celebratory meal at one of his favourite Indian restaurants , toasting each other 's health and futures in an excellent Chablis . |
| 22 | The posies of corn had been trampled in the mud . |
| 23 | The main areas of dispute had been an executive president , a second house of parliament , and proportional representation . |
| 24 | It was only when the bottles of wine had been firmly put away and the last glass drained that they got the message . |
| 25 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 26 | Some models of development had been proposed which would require changes in the Charter and Statutes , but since there was no evidence that the government wished to see any change in the basic role ‘ of the Council or in the status of institutions in the maintained sector ’ , the Council had given priority in the shorter term to developments within the existing Charter and Statutes . |
| 27 | The Trades Council recorded in its minutes of 28 January that elements of pressure had been put upon [ the Edinburgh printers ] , enormous sums of money had been expended , rare inducements had been held out , untruths had been circulated , even religion had been abused [ ? ] and brought to play on purpose to shake the men , and yet after all these means had been expended and an income verging on starvation , the men had remained as firm as at first . " |
| 28 | The fear of the effects of war had been diminished by the quick struggles of the mid-century decades , but warfare was still known to be expensive and the Paris Commune had revived old fears that war might bring revolution . |
| 29 | Timid winds of change had been trying to blow in Spanish universities since 1951 , when a relatively progressive Minister of Education , Joaquin Ruiz-Giménez , had initiated an attempt to revitalize and open up the torpid and reactionary Spanish education system . |
| 30 | For centuries one of the most telling criticisms of Nonconformity had been its penchant towards disintegration , what Edmund Burke called ‘ the dissidence of dissent ’ . |