Example sentences of "had be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenamun 's deadline came and went , but Taheb , with her ease of access to information , heard nothing to suggest that the Medjay captain had been either dismissed or taken off the case . |
| 2 | My intervention , such as it was , became well known and earned me the enmity of two or three people whose awards had been either altered or struck out . |
| 3 | Within two hours eight battleships and over 180 aircraft had been either destroyed or severely damaged , and there were over 3000 casualties . |
| 4 | There were no bridges left standing between Verona and Rome and , according to Eric , who from now on was to travel this way once a week , every village south of Florence on the main road to Viterbo and Rome had been either destroyed or severely damaged . |
| 5 | Before this , however , potential rivals had been either ignored or treated ruthlessly by the BUF . |
| 6 | Everything had been either buried or blown out of them . |
| 7 | Set against these were what he took to be the essential strengths and cultural possibilities of the German spirit , which in recent generations — and most clearly in the age of Goethe — had been partially realized and whose full realization was an ever-present dream . |
| 8 | These problems remained , even after objectives had been partially clarified and formalized through grant financing and stringent financial controls . |
| 9 | Cleaning staff had been drastically cut and we often could n't find a change of sheets after a delivery . |
| 10 | ( i ) The aircraft had been properly maintained and its documentation was in order . |
| 11 | Her ankle had been properly bandaged and she had been given pain-killers and ordered to keep off her foot as much as possible . |
| 12 | In another case , the Court of Appeal held that a prosecution had been properly discontinued when a defendant had taken out a private prosecution for perjury against a witness who had given evidence against him at committal proceedings . |
| 13 | Livestock in the area had been closely monitored but little attention had been paid to wild fowl . |
| 14 | Following Bennett 's withdrawal a number of other candidates had been unsuccessfully approached until Yeutter was offered the post on Jan. 3 . |
| 15 | He looked distraught , his tie was pulled down and his collar open , his hair was ruffled , but even if he had been neatly dressed and groomed , the bright staring eyes and hectic cheeks would have warned Pascoe that something was amiss . |
| 16 | Mobutu had agreed in April to opposition demands for the holding of a conference to discuss a new constitution and the holding of multiparty elections [ see p. 38133 ] , but the conference had been repeatedly postponed and the government had decreed on July 15 that it would not be sovereign on constitutional matters . |
| 17 | The EC has declared its willingness to help finance a plan for the environmentally-sound development of the Coto Donana wetlands in southern Spain , which had been repeatedly identified as at risk from inappropriate farming and tourism . |
| 18 | In the three Baltic republics and in Georgia it had been decided that to participate would be to acknowledge Soviet constitutional legitimacy , thereby forfeiting the key argument in their independence campaigns , namely that they had been illegally occupied and annexed to the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Steam-engines had been enormously improved since their invention about a hundred years earlier , and Carnot was interested in whether there was a limit to the improvement . |
| 20 | As in the Statute of Labourers in England immediately following the Black Death , a ruling class was attempting to reassert control in a situation where its grip had been temporarily shaken and labour shortage threatened . |
| 21 | But , whether the woman had been heavily accented or not , Fabia felt a small let-up in her tension that here was someone who spoke her own tongue . |
| 22 | One of Ginny 's earliest memories was of the contrast between the white of his shirt and shorts and the brown of his skin ; his legs and arms had been heavily muscled and covered with a sprinkling of dark hairs , and beads of sweat on his upper lip drained into his thin moustache . |
| 23 | It noted that the relevant EC legislation to be integrated into the EES treaty as a common legal basis had been broadly identified and would in principle be acceptable , but that the question of joint management and development of EES legislation would have to be resolved , and an appropriate legal and institutional framework established . |
| 24 | It was argued before the Court that this was contrary to the fundamental principle that products must freely move throughout the Community , The European Court of Justice agreed and held that once a product had been lawfully produced and marketed in a member state , other member states must recognise that fact and allow it to be imported and sold in its own territory . |
| 25 | Neither ailment had been positively identified when she arrived at the Royal and it was decided to transfer her for further investigation . |
| 26 | Although there was — still is — a tree growing through the middle of the house , the stone walls had been well built and still stand to this day . |
| 27 | When St Paul told the Christians in Philippi that he had learnt to be content , he did n't mean that he was smug ; it did n't mean that he had been well fed and could put his feet up . |
| 28 | Azor had been well trained and , even if she did n't know the words of command in Czech , he was an intelligent animal and responded to her tone of voice every time . |
| 29 | Although the cut across my stomach might not have had quite the artistry of Michelangelo , it had been well sewn and healed well . |
| 30 | Knitted in stocking stitch , the fabric was very loose and open , had been well steamed and was therefore very , very floppy . |