Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , as if a curtain had been raised on both sides of the river , suddenly were campsites , fishing and bathing . |
| 2 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 3 | Before starting school he had attended the child development centre , received speech therapy and since had been seen on several occasions by the educational psychologist . |
| 4 | He had been seen on several levels of the North Star site . |
| 5 | A sketch of the houses on the north side of the west end of Crown Street made by T. H. Shepherd in May 1858 shows them in the early stages of demolition , but two of his later sketches , dated March 1859 , show almost the whole south side of Fludyer Street as still standing although notice had been served on some of the occupiers as early as March 1856 . |
| 6 | His entire professional career had been based on that premise . |
| 7 | The appeal had been based on both the Irish Constitution 's recognition of the equal rights of the mother and the unborn child , and the freedom of movement guaranteed within the European Communities . |
| 8 | Nothing more had been said on that subject . |
| 9 | Prior to that , it had been assumed on all sides that the passing of Budget resolutions conferred sufficient interim authority , but in 1913 , in Bowles v Bank of England [ 1913 ] 1 Ch 57 , the courts decided that this was not the case and the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913 resulted . |
| 10 | Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda . |
| 11 | But no great impact had been made on this side of the Channel . |
| 12 | Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter . |
| 13 | On each previous occasion he had been acquitted on all charges . |
| 14 | Since 1986 Gotti had faced three previous trials and had been acquitted on all charges . |
| 15 | Jessica had been observed on many occasions , he was told , and with many young men . |
| 16 | The current bases agreement , which had been revised on several occasions since its original signature in March 1947 , allowed the USA to use several military installations , including the huge facilities at Clark Field and Subic Bay , respectively the largest US Air Force and naval base outside North America . |
| 17 | The agenda included 13 draft documents , which had been prepared on all aspects of strategic and general purpose armed forces . |
| 18 | He said that no decisions had been reached on any of the ‘ scare stories ’ which had appeared in the Press . |
| 19 | Once agreement had been reached on these questions , the negotiations centred on the key issue of grade boundaries , i.e. the translation o job scores into grades . |
| 20 | Mr Cook argued that 10 years of Thatcherism had been forced on most people , who had never voted Conservative , and that many of those who opposed PR in the Labour Party wanted to use the same undemocratic power ‘ to ram socialism down the throats of a majority who did n't vote for it ’ . |
| 21 | It had been parked on that spot for at least three hours , probably much longer , for whoever had parked it had very likely done so before the evening traffic build-up . |
| 22 | Recalling how Meh'Lindi had been violated on that other occasion , Jaq feared for her sanity once her psychic hood was removed . |
| 23 | The headmaster paused , reminding himself of his conclusion that the privilege of educating the sons of the royal house had been conferred on this school because it was uniquely endowed with a philosophy which informed all its actions and made it equal to the task . |
| 24 | It was sad that this feeling of desire and affection — so alien to him — had been wasted on such a creature . |
| 25 | Elections to the National Assembly , a body which had been suspended on several occasions since independence , were held in July 1979 , September 1984 and September 1989 . |
| 26 | On climate change [ see also p. 37291 ] , Resolution 44/207 recalled an earlier resolution ( 43/53 — see p. 36778 ) and noted the number of conferences that had been held on this issue in 1989 . |
| 27 | Shelling had been reported on both sides in early June and Azerbaijan claimed numerous Armenian attacks on Nakhichevan and the border regions . |
| 28 | ‘ We did n't know if another bomb had been planted on another platform , ’ admitted Miss Godfrey , who uses the station three times a week . |
| 29 | All the same , Cissie was right in one assumption : Beth 's peace of mind had been shattered on that particular day . |
| 30 | This was a laborious process and probably the equivalent of a week 's hard work had been expended on this stone before it was abandoned . |