Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A whole series of practices and expedients which had been widely used as an organised diplomatic system began to take shape fell into disuse as it became better established . |
| 2 | They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war . |
| 3 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , sociologists and anthropologists , including Émile Durkheim , were interested in the reports of travellers and missionaries who had been to parts of Australasia . |
| 4 | It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties . |
| 5 | This was not , however , immediately apparent to those photographers , instrument makers and lanternists who had been fired up to experiment with moving pictures after hearing reports of Edison 's Kinetoscope , the original what-the-butler-saw machine , or witnessing the first projection of films made by the Lumière Brothers in 1896 . |
| 6 | There was a wide range of dolls , cars , and gadgets which had been donated to the private collection over many years . |
| 7 | The effect of the war was , as in many other industries , to force government , employers and unions in shipping to face and to solve as best they could , many problems of relationships and jurisdictions which had been simmering , and from time to time erupting , for many years . |
| 8 | Now he had to face cares and obligations which had been unknown to him before ; and the beginning of his cares lay in the stern discipline of the study of books . |
| 9 | From London to Glasgow , from Cardiff to Newcastle , historic buildings have been restored and areas which had been run down have been transformed . |
| 10 | The inevitable question , ‘ What did you do in the hols ? ’ would be greeted with a list of the films I had seen , and the dances and point-to-points I had been to , whereas in fact I was not allowed to go to the cinema ( perhaps for financial reasons ) , had never been to a dance in my life , and did n't even know what a point-to-point was . |
| 11 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |
| 12 | It was intended to follow up , through the records , all the Blacks and Asians who had been arrested , and a sample of the Whites . |
| 13 | Behind such analyses lay Richard Hoggart 's extensive and sensitive work in The Uses of Literacy , published in 1957 and documenting the assumptions , attitudes , and morals of working-class people in Northern England , together with the influence upon them of the magazines , books , and films which had been produced for a mass market . |
| 14 | Now I realized what had been so odd about it : amid all the festivities and celebrations there had been no sign whatsoever of the bride around whom the whole affair was revolving . |
| 15 | The wider operations were the responsibility of Task Force Atlantic , which included naval forces and troops which had been sent to reinforce Southern Command earlier in the year . |
| 16 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 17 | The regular freighter from Denmark had docked and along the quayside barges were moored , filled with coconuts and spices which had been transshipped from the large Oriental freighters at the Royal group of docks downriver . |
| 18 | Privatization was introduced in three stages : ( i ) the removal of obstacles to private enterprise including the returning to private owners of an estimated 70,000 shops and businesses which had been confiscated between 1955 and 1962 ; ( ii ) the auction of over 100,000 state-owned shops , restaurants and workshops beginning on Jan. 26 , 1991 [ see p. 37974 ] ; ( iii ) legislation with effect from April 1 allowing shares in state enterprises to be sold to local and foreign investors [ see p. 38018 ] . |
| 19 | Following the thread of light upwards into the darkness , Bernice found that the curves and kinks which had been so obvious from the surface of Belial had straightened out a little more . |
| 20 | The poets and writers who had been instrumental in organizing the younger painters at the Indépendants also played a large part in uniting the different aspects of Cubism . |
| 21 | She too , in spite of the dances and concerts they had been attending lately , knew far fewer people at the station than Rose . |
| 22 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 23 | Various generals and admirals who had been prominent in the war effort were put on trial for their lives in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East ( IMTFE ) , which met in Tokyo between 1946 and 1948 . |
| 24 | Among soldiers , policemen and civilians there had been 267 deaths in the same period as a result of " terrorist incidents " . |
| 25 | The story went that he was a dealer in jewels and furs who had been discharged from the army after Dunkirk . |
| 26 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 27 | But other shocks to the system followed in quick succession : a new language and culture ; the insensitivity , not always unintentional , of foster parents , teachers and hostel administrators ; the cruelty of other children ( and some adults ) who equated all things German with Nazism ; the coming-to-terms with the long-term or permanent loss of family and friends who had been left behind , and the awareness that refugees could not expect to be treated other than as second-class citizens — to mention only the common causes of illness and depression . |
| 28 | Never had anything been so well trumpeted to me ; surely there had been an element of hyperbole from so many colleagues and friends who had been going to the jamboree for years ? |
| 29 | They had served deaf people faithfully and with devotion for more than a century and were correctly described in the same editorial as " dedicated men , universal guides philosopher , and friends who had been on call at every hour of the day . |
| 30 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |