Example sentences of "question had be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 2 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 3 | ‘ Yeh , ’ she said , knowing it did n't matter what the question had been . |
| 4 | Vera asks me : ‘ Why did you stay a Communist for so long , even after your friend was executed in 1950 ? '' ’ The friend in question had been a schoolmate and they had worked together in the resistance . |
| 5 | The mere question had been enough to provoke suspicion . |
| 6 | The question had been raised in the Commons during the debates on the Bill , when Churchill indicated that the Board of Trade hoped for co-operation between labour exchanges and local education authorities ( LEAs ) in the sharing of information , and that in certain instances Juvenile Advisory Committees ( JACs ) could be established . |
| 7 | The call on Sanders elicited the information that the client in question had been a Herr Fedorov , who lived in a large house just north of the village . |
| 8 | The Indians were able to show , after lengthy but amicable negotiations , that the object in question had been collected without proper tribal authorisation in 1887 ! |
| 9 | Coming in behind him , she did n't see Midnight 's glance flicker to James Lambert , then away , as if a question had been asked and answered . |
| 10 | With Price Waterhouse 's help , every question had been constructed to generate a simple yes or no answer . |
| 11 | The case in question had been argued as one of relevance of evidence . |
| 12 | The crimes in question had been committed by my body , not by me . |
| 13 | But the question had been unwelcome and for the first time some of his cockiness seemed to have drained from him . |
| 14 | Rejected by Tawney ( 1912 ) , this has now been fully vindicated by Dr Kerridge , who has shown that the security conferred on the copyholder by the law was not inferior to that enjoyed by the freeholder , and that it was not a subject for dispute in the courts during the sixteenth century ‘ for the simple reason that the question had been settled long before ’ . |
| 15 | The question had been considered in Nazari ( 1980 ) 2 Cr.App.R . |
| 16 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 17 | Later , Julia discovered that the German army in question had been in South Africa and that Colonel Scotland 's appointment had ended some years before the Great War . |
| 18 | Pete had known that it was coming — the only question had been , when ? |
| 19 | For almost half a century the housing question had been dominated by the problems of insanitary , unfit dwellings and the association with overcrowding and ill health . |
| 20 | I had , for the previous fifteen years , enjoyed the privilege of living in a Christian community where the charismatic question had been a lively issue , and where ‘ charismatic ’ and ‘ non-charismatic ’ ordinands lived together in a high degree of mutual trust and love . |
| 21 | It was as though the question had been forced from him . |
| 22 | John-William Dallam 's law , according , to which , had she committed an offence against " the person — provided the person in question had been one of her own kind — then her sentence might well have been light ; a leniency by no means extended to offences against " property " which must be strenuously , mercilessly put down . |
| 23 | The fact that manufacturer B produced a safer razor after the razor in question had been supplied by manufacturer A is not enough to enable us to say that manufacturer A's razor was defective . |
| 24 | Throughout the interview , Reni kept a Horus eye on proceedings , interrupting , when he felt an irrelevant question had been asked , with the speed and precision of a young judge . |
| 25 | He had seen the young French clerk whom Celeste had seduced , be broken in a matter of days and confess to whatever question had been put to him . |
| 26 | The question had been ignored . |
| 27 | On this occasion , the Canadian bags in question had been inadvertently included in such a consignment sent to Wandsworth . |
| 28 | The youth in question had been before the courts , but was still at large . |
| 29 | ‘ Quite sure , ’ John said , not pleased that the question had been asked again . |
| 30 | Up until this point the military dictatorship in question had been an archetypal target for student protesters who expressed total solidarity with the left-wing guerillas who opposed it . |