Example sentences of "had be [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | This programme experienced several problems , resulting in dangerously high sodium ion concentrations in home-made solutions and low usage rates of the solution by those who had been taught about it . |
| 2 | And surprisingly only one in five teenagers questioned had been taught about homosexuality and lesbianism in school . |
| 3 | At the time the analysts and the client were somewhat concerned that it was not practicable to implement fully either of the FAOR technical solutions , as expectations had been raised about the final outcome before the implications of these solutions were known in any detail . |
| 4 | Even the case from this period that was included in the Black report ( with the year of diagnosis wrongly given as 1983 rather than 1984 ) was diagnosed after concern had been raised about the high incidence in Seascale . |
| 5 | Some serious steps had been taken towards that outburst of anticlericalism and , in particular , antipapalism which marked the later fourteenth century : suspicions had been raised about the church 's landed wealth and envy of it had been fanned ; resentment against the papacy — by the clergy as well as by the laity — was growing ; above all parliament was providing an assembly where hostility could be orchestrated , diffused and preserved . |
| 6 | The Revenue said questions had been raised about whether these assets qualified for deferral if all other conditions were met and , while it could be argued they lie outside the scope of the provisions , ‘ the better view was that they are within them ’ . |
| 7 | Scathach had been telling about his first journey through the wood . |
| 8 | Several analysts were confounded by the strong performance : only on Monday they had been muttering about how sustainable recent performance had been , and querying whether the share price had not run ahead of itself . |
| 9 | Gran had been muttering about storms for days and she liked her to stay close at these times . |
| 10 | Tosh said he did n't like some things that had been written about her in papers . |
| 11 | He could hear the men beginning the old bawdy ‘ Thousand and One Nights of the Wolfking ‘ , which had been written about Cormac , and which Lugh did not care for overmuch , because even if you discounted half the things it said , you were still left with a patently exaggerated tale . |
| 12 | In actual fact little had been written about Cubism by April 1910 , but Boccioni 's work of 1911 shows some indirect Cubist influence , and he was certainly in correspondence with Severini , who , though as yet little touched by the movement , was a friend of both Picasso and Braque . |
| 13 | The historical period is so well documented it was only necessary to read what had been written about Elizabeth and integrate it with Ben 's score . |
| 14 | The covers were very worn , as if it had been travelled about a good deal , and on the fly leaf was written ‘ Journal 1841 ’ and then , in a different coloured ink , ‘ And 1842 ’ and then , below that , carefully , ‘ Emily Brent ’ . |
| 15 | He was quite prepared now to admit that he had been mistaken about Marie : that she was not thick and that , though she was not very articulate , she was , in her way , intelligent , kind , even sensitive . |
| 16 | Perhaps they had been mistaken about Wang Sau-leyan . |
| 17 | The boy would hardly have been stupid enough to invent the tale about the lamps and it was easily possible that Ernie Passmore had been mistaken about the night . |
| 18 | If however , you had been mistaken about the location of and and the assignments had been reversed , the effective starting-points would be and and the movement towards equality would involve a loss to and a gain to of , yielding a net gain of 83-10-9 as by construction . |
| 19 | In the course of the exercise a great deal of knowledge had been gained about EPH activities and associated problems , and various other changes were made as a result of the investigation . |
| 20 | Lilacs had been twined about the balcony which ran round two sides of the courtyard and over the deep , ancient arches of the north and west walls . |
| 21 | Fabia was seated in the back of the Mercedes , with Ivo driving down into the valley , when the smile which had been sporting about her mouth suddenly froze . |
| 22 | The police began to search for various people but our security system was very good and we had been warned about what was happening . |
| 23 | Alexei was amazed that Jotan had seen fit to risk the lives of both his wife and daughter on an escapade such as this , and he wondered if either of them had been warned about what was to happen . |
| 24 | Sunday Life revealed two weeks ago that up to 10 unionist councillors in Belfast City Hall had been warned about their personal safety . |
| 25 | But the owners of the Handyman Store at High Stakesby , Whitby , told the tribunal that Mr Heselton had broken company rules and that he had been warned about his behaviour only four days before the incident . |
| 26 | Despite year-long complaints nothing had been done about the problem . |
| 27 | Cabochon , however , had been thinking about it deeply . |
| 28 | She had been thinking about her future and discussing it with her parents , and all of them had decided to sell the shop . |
| 29 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 30 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |