Example sentences of "this [noun sg] had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’ |
| 3 | Prior to 1980 , the state pension was also linked to the average rise in earnings , whichever was the higher , and if this link had been maintained , single pensioners and married couples would be receiving an extra £12.80 and £20.50 , respectively . |
| 4 | Metal whiskers of this kind had been known of , in a general sort of way , for a long time but had been regarded as a nuisance or a curiosity . |
| 5 | This responsibility had been taken over by the medical and scientific establishment , as represented by Dr Meuthen . |
| 6 | This story had been used extensively by the Americans to drum up support against Gadaffi in the tame sections of the Western media even though they knew it was untrue . |
| 7 | Yet it is ironical that the most startling changes in industrial chemistry came in dyestuffs , because the fundamental discoveries in this field had been made as far back as 1857 by an Englishman , and England and France dominated aniline dye production until 1870 . |
| 8 | Precisely this eventuality had been considered at the highest level in the days just before the war ended . |
| 9 | This hope had been inspired by events in France , where the financier John Law , exiled after a fatal duel , was perceived to be achieving a spectacular unloading of the public debt . |
| 10 | It incorporated a common interface component allowing the use of different operating systems and this part had been added by a former employee of the plaintiff who had a similar program and interface . |
| 11 | Alter this technique had been invented , it was only a matter of time before weapons designers adapted it for the detection of submarines . |
| 12 | This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks . |
| 13 | This stick had been used so often for beating me that it was now quite smooth . |
| 14 | In the picture the car is bound for Victoria Pier via Lytham Road , and is thus fitted with high mesh guards on the top deck to prevent passengers hitting the centre traction poles with which this route had been re-equipped . |
| 15 | All the surrendering Germans in this instance had been shot dead by the Commandos . |
| 16 | Once this base had been consolidated , forays would be made deeper into the wilderness , this time , perhaps , with a cossack military unit establishing a blockhouse ( zimove ) to contain the furs collected from the next tribe to be located . |
| 17 | Powerful impulses in this direction had been supplied by the immense development in the study of antiquity throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | The purpose of this chapter is to examine on what basis this decision had been taken . |
| 19 | In some cases this money had been spent on ‘ magnificent sports centres , public buildings , and libraries ’ , as well as on useless projects such as FENI . |
| 20 | A commitment in principle to aid countries in this category had been made at the Houston G-7 summit in July [ for which see p. 37629 ] . |
| 21 | It is not clear whether either of the two villages used in this study had been exposed to the experimental Concentrated Reinforcement Programme or not . |
| 22 | This bid had been accepted . |
| 23 | Two titles for this talk had been suggested by the speaker , ‘ singing for his supper ’ and ‘ the gain and pain of being Director of the Daresbury Laboratories ’ . |
| 24 | The existence of this ring had been inferred after the fly-by of Pioneer 11 in 1974 , which was the second of four spacecraft that have so far been to Jupiter . |
| 25 | When the first draft of this review had been completed , a protein plaque or two moved in the reviewer 's senile brain and he remembered that he had in fact reviewed the first edition for this journal . |
| 26 | A decree to this effect had been published by the NSF council on Jan. 7 . |
| 27 | Although this effect had been shown previously with more traditional maze-learning tasks , the best demonstration came in a test devised by Richard Morris , then of St Andrews , now at Edinburgh . |
| 28 | Shortly after Yeltsin 's resignation Vyacheslav Shostakovsky read an announcement on behalf of a group of prominent Democratic Platform members to the effect that they planned to leave the CPSU in order to found their own party ; apparently this action had been triggered by the retention in the new party rules , approval on July 12 , of democratic centralism and a ban on factions . |
| 29 | My Lord the er case moves on there over the page now to the twenty fourth of September and on that day Mr was notified erm by his bank on the telephone that head office had approved the finance proposal in principal and as a result of that Mr then telephone Peter , the defendant , told him that the financing for this deal had been approved in principal and Mr asked Mr to provide a bankers draft of some seven and a half thousand pounds in order to enable exchange to take place as a matter of urgency . |
| 30 | The fine for such an offence when this rule had been applied to the original directors of the House of Industry in 1794 was £20 it had now risen to £100 . |