Example sentences of "of [noun sg] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert had seen the development in varying stages , and had assisted in shipping out tons of building materials , but it was four months since he had been to Barbados and a lot of progress had been made since then . |
| 2 | A party whose main base of support had been the , the unions and the er union confederations which grew up in industrial cities like Shanghai becomes a party whose main power base is its own Red Army , its own army of peasant guerillas which it itself has created . |
| 3 | One of the chief reasons for its loss of support had been the protracted struggle between Prime Minister David Lange and his Finance Minister , Roger Douglas , the architect of Labour 's laissez faire approach to the economy , colloquially known as " Rogernomics " . |
| 4 | Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt . |
| 5 | Signs of change had been evident within various protest movements , like the Teetotallers , from the 1850s when they realized that without state action they could not achieve their goals . |
| 6 | By May the principle of change had been accepted as inevitable , for once an extension of the franchise had been proposed , it would be suicidal for the party to oppose it , and there was thus a need to concentrate on pressing detailed amendments , for example to protect the interests and representation of agriculture . |
| 7 | ‘ Staff numbers had doubled over the previous five to six years and a programme of change had been thrust upon us by the market , ’ explained . |
| 8 | Timid winds of change had been trying to blow in Spanish universities since 1951 , when a relatively progressive Minister of Education , Joaquin Ruiz-Giménez , had initiated an attempt to revitalize and open up the torpid and reactionary Spanish education system . |
| 9 | The thick coils of hair had been pinned up beneath it by a patient Sister Anne , who sighed as she went about her task . |
| 10 | Her head smarted painfully where several strands of hair had been wrenched out by her violent struggles , the fragile material of her shift had torn further , and she was shaking uncontrollably and unable to stand upright . |
| 11 | Slovo 's publication of a draft policy programme Has socialism failed ? , revising the former hardline SACP stance to espouse multiparty democracy , received considerable attention , particularly in view of the close alliance between the SACP and the ANC , and the extent to which the threat of communism had been accentuated by the South African regime in its attitude to the ANC in the past . |
| 12 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 13 | Pieces of shirt had been wrapped round their heads . |
| 14 | But , looking into her face , it did n't seem as if her years of freedom had been particularly kind to her . |
| 15 | By the 1870s , full specialisation of function had been achieved and there were eleven functional clerical departments such as claims , correspondence , finance , lapse , policy registration , and so on . |
| 16 | Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers . |
| 17 | The two companies said the Ministry of Defence had been supportive of their approach and they did not anticipate any regulatory problems . |
| 18 | In the immediate post-war years , the Minister of Defence had been little more than the co-ordinator of the three autonomous Service Ministries and the Ministry of Supply . |
| 19 | Olszewski said that he had approved the retirement because once a civilian Minister of Defence had been appointed in December 1991 — see pp. 38685-86 ] , there was no post suitable for such a high-ranking officer . |
| 20 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 21 | There were two decisions which were binding where the rule of privilege had been applied to copied documents : The Palermo ( 1883 ) 9 PD 6 , and Watson v Cammel Laird & Co ( Shipbuilders and Engineers ) Ltd ( 1959 ) 1 WLR 702 . |
| 22 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him . |
| 23 | It is true that certain measures of nationalisation had been undertaken in the first months of Soviet government — for example , the Merchant Marine had been taken over in January 1918 and the sugar industry nationalised in May of that year — but the main efforts had been directed towards a stabilisation and regularisation of the tottering economy on the existing basis of ownership . |
| 24 | The final act of the winter of discontent had been played by the students . |
| 25 | Members of Darlington recreation committee yesterday heard how more than £3,500 worth of damage had been caused to art works in the Myles Meehan Gallery over the past few months . |
| 26 | It was only after a new system of physics had been devised , a process that involved the intellectual labour of many scientists over several centuries , that the new theory could be successfully matched with the results of observation and experiment in a detailed way . |
| 27 | William Thompson , Lord Kelvin , the celebrated physicist , thought that all the basic problems of physics had been solved , though a number of relatively minor problems remained to be cleared up . |
| 28 | What level of negligence had been shown by the authorities ? |
| 29 | Prior to Donoghue v. Stevenson the law relating to the tort of negligence had been fragmented . |
| 30 | Some kind of decision had been reached . |