Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 2 | Many of the marchers had never been on a CND march . |
| 3 | These sectors had long been in decline — reflecting the decline of the UK as a world economic power — so the people of these regions did not have the buying power to attract the new consumer goods industries . |
| 4 | The communists had never been in a better position than they were in in , in nineteen forty eight , the civil war was , was clearly going in their favour erm they were to achieve power within eighteen months and at precisely the point where they had everything going for them , they are adopting the most moderate policy . |
| 5 | In 1885 the two countries had even been on bad enough terms to recall their respective ambassadors . |
| 6 | When the latter siege had ended successfully , Molla Yegan came to Mehmed II to congratulate him and remarked that his prayers had continually been with him . |
| 7 | The three women who were still alive after 10 years had all been in the therapy group . |
| 8 | But when it does , alternatives had better be in place . |
| 9 | Religious Affairs had previously been under the control of Lt.-Gen. |
| 10 | Very few writers had actually been to the world outside Europe . |
| 11 | My leanings had always been towards the listings and music and entertainment side . |
| 12 | Van Gogh 's idea of things had also been against him . |
| 13 | His dreams had all been about home . |
| 14 | The poets had always been on the side of the people . |
| 15 | With Collins , the Human League , Japan , Simple Minds , Heaven 17 ( whose two pony tailed members had previously been in the Human League ) , Virgin began to swamp the pop charts . |
| 16 | His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom . |
| 17 | As investigators from the Mines Inspectorate , British Coal and unions began their inquiries into the accident , the company disclosed that the trapped men had never been in serious danger . |
| 18 | Investment commitments had mainly been in the electronics industries , which accounted for almost 49 per cent of the total , and in chemicals , which had almost 29 per cent . |
| 19 | I suggested that starlings had probably been in Australia longer than his family , and if his argument was translated into human terms then an aboriginal would have a justifiable right in hoisting a spear into his chest . |
| 20 | In official talks begun on June 10 , however , the then Romanian Environment Minister Simion Hincu told his Bulgarian counterpart , Aleksandur Aleksandrov , that the offending factory had been closed in 1988 , and that atmospheric emissions had since been within permissible limits . |
| 21 | While on furlough in England my thoughts had naturally been on the new tasks ahead . |
| 22 | Her nerves had already been in a bad enough state . |
| 23 | And the unions had also been through this scene recently . |
| 24 | He had twice before seen the Colonel walk through the garden to Dr Tariq 's office , but on each occasion his assistants had still been at work . |
| 25 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 26 | The Democrats had ostensibly been in control of Congress for some time , but the real power lay with a conservative coalition embracing , on the one hand , southern Democrats , and Republicans on the other . |