Example sentences of "of these [noun pl] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales of monastic lands brought in perhaps £800,000 between 1539 and 1547 ; by then two-thirds of these lands had been sold and given away . |
| 2 | I was tempted when examining these drawings to propose a hypothesis that some of these artists had been attracted to formalism and minimalism because of its supposed neutrality ; the absent author was , after all , without gender . |
| 3 | The fact that three of these families had been moderately wealthy in Palestine and had managed to acquire the same social status in their exile — that they behaved and looked like millions of middle-class couples in Europe , or indeed in Israel — only compounded my error . |
| 4 | Many of these teachers had been learners in the original literacy campaign . |
| 5 | It was not surprising , therefore , to find evidence that many of these teachers had been making carefully thought out and constructive efforts to develop more structured and appropriate approaches to this kind of assessment ; a process that has undoubtedly been accelerated by the introduction of the GCSE . |
| 6 | The repeal of these laws had been a persistent demand of human rights and opposition groups . |
| 7 | A small number of these posts had been created recently by the head in a conscious attempt to institutionalise the motivation of curricular and related developments . |
| 8 | Most of these women had been in what they called ‘ the therapy situation ’ for years . |
| 9 | One of these women had been paid to pretend to be sick , and Ingrid was to take her place . |
| 10 | But the tribunal said only one of these complaints had been proved — a charge that McBride left a hospital after treating a pregnant woman without making proper arrangements for her further care . |
| 11 | None of these projects had been completed . |
| 12 | None of these projects had been completed He ran hither and thither between the shelves of Eng . |
| 13 | In fact , it is highly questionable whether the royal use of these powers had been illegal . |
| 14 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |
| 15 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 16 | Almost all of these estates had been mortgaged and German banks were unwilling to lend more money at the rates the Junkers requested . |
| 17 | More than a third of these conditions had been previously undetected , and two-thirds of the illnesses were manageable , while half of them were totally cleared up by treatment . |
| 18 | Somebody calculated that if the surface of the earth was covered with a layer of protein molecules a metre thick , right over the whole surface of the earth erm each one , each protein different from every other one , and let us suppose furthermore that each of these proteins had been changing once as second , uniquely , into some different kind ever since the formation of the earth , we would still have tried out only quite a small fraction of the available possible proteins a hundred amino acids long . |
| 19 | ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long . |
| 20 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 21 | Many of these boats had been supplied to foreign naval powers and had been proved able and fast in all sea conditions . |
| 22 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 23 | Birth records have been obtained for the 42 children with cancer diagnosed up to the age of 4 years throughout Cumbria during 1984–90 in order to investigate the possibility that some of these children had been born in Seascale and then moved , but in fact only the child resident in Seascale at diagnosis was also domiciled there at birth . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of these men had been so badly damaged , both physically and mentally , by their experiences on the battlefield and in POW camps that their lives were ruined . ’ |
| 25 | Almost all of these men had been in psychiatric hospitals at some time in their lives , especially the younger ones . |
| 26 | Some of these men had been posing as caravan holiday makers for some weeks and now settled for a long , cold night on the clifftops . |
| 27 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 28 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 29 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 30 | Only one of these patients had been recruited and had then defaulted . |