Example sentences of "in [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there was one from ‘ R. Ufricks District Postmaster ’ informing residents of his area that pillar boxes with two holes in them had been ‘ put to an improper purpose ’ , which he spelled out in a way unlikely to commend itself to the Royal Mail . |
| 2 | At the time we first met him his limited confidence in himself had been further undermined by June Braithwaite 's derision of his way of ‘ going on ’ . |
| 3 | On top of a cavity in the stone in which had been placed contemporary records and coins was placed a plate with the inscription : |
| 4 | The Scottish kingdom 's pride in itself had been largely invested in the monarchy . |
| 5 | Revisionists have therefore questioned the notion that the commune in itself had been a major barrier to improvement or labour mobility and , equally , the notion that dismantling the commune would in itself provide a major stimulus to agricultural development . |
| 6 | Wexford was n't inclined to be sentimental over the Cullams but he could n't help being faintly touched that they who were poor in everything had been affluent , extravagant and imaginative in one respect . |
| 7 | His interest in her had been obvious , and because of that she had discouraged it . |
| 8 | That he could let her go so easily was the final damning proof that his interest in her had been prompted by solely mercenary considerations . |
| 9 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 10 | Her trust in him had been absolute . |
| 11 | The general allegations in it had been made before : Harry Phibbs had a moment of fame for calling the late Earl of Stockton ‘ a war criminal ’ on the strength of Count Tolstoy 's theories , but he got away with it . |
| 12 | The vegetable patch was hers and all the things in it had been grown by her loving hand without the help of a single gardener . |
| 13 | The building was one of the most closely protected in Ulster and the staff employed in it had been doubly vetted for security . |
| 14 | True , neither the mews house nor any stick of furniture in it had been his by law , but they had chosen many of the items together — she relying upon his artist 's eye , he upon her money to purchase whatever his gaze admired . |
| 15 | What had been missing in it had been children , she decided . |
| 16 | The legend could not be taken seriously any longer in what had been , admittedly , a threadbare form . |
| 17 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |
| 18 | Susan gaped at a fishing boat with a motor car embedded in its side , in what had been someone 's front parlour . |
| 19 | He thanked his opponents in what had been ‘ a clean campaign throughout the country — something good for democracy . |
| 20 | It was his first refreshment in what had been a heavy and unrewarding day ; his leading lady had been difficult , and wanted to marry him ; the audience , confronted with an expensive cast , had been unresponsive . |
| 21 | He had made his headquarters in what had been the presidential suite of the Hilton hotel . |
| 22 | The Bridges Community Centre was opened in 1987 in what had been a derelict factory canteen on a large industrial site in Monmouth . |
| 23 | Berhtfrith praefectus , almost certainly the Berhtfrith who fought on Osred 's side at Bamburgh and who later spoke in favour of a settlement with Wilfrid at the council on the Nidd ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) , perhaps also a kinsman of Berhtred , son of Beornhaeth , was involved in a conflict in 711 in what had been Manau Gododdin between the Rivers Avon and Carron when the Picts were defeated ( HE V , 24 ; ASC D , s.a. 710 ; AU s.a. 710 : AT p. 222 ) . |
| 24 | In December 1914 Edith Pye went to Châlons-sur-Marne to set up a maternity hospital for women refugees from Reims in what had been an insane asylum , without hot water or electricity , fifteen miles from the fighting line . |
| 25 | They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis 's workshop in what had been the grooms ' quarters . |
| 26 | They were in what had been the dining-room of the house . |
| 27 | Suddenly it struck me that there was a flaw in the reasoning that had concentrated police inquiries on this upper part of the tidal Thames — or rather , not so much that there was a flaw in what had been worked out , but that the reasoning was incomplete . |
| 28 | But as she made her way back to the table , Polly 's fierce satisfaction at having the last word in what had been a nerve-shattering encounter quickly faded . |
| 29 | They were said to face summary execution if found guilty of complicity in what had been the fifth rumoured coup attempt since the military took power in June 1989 . |
| 30 | The difficulty lay also in what had been interpreted by the late 1970s , inside and outside the CNAA , as a valuable tradition . |