Example sentences of "as [noun pl] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as prisoners had been poured into the particular patch of ground which was to be their camp , all this activity materialized from nothing ; and it materialized in every camp regardless of the nationality of the prisoners . |
| 2 | He was a foreigner , he had been bought , just as Frenchmen had been bought , and Italians . |
| 3 | Every other nation on the continent got overrun by the axis powers in World War two , as nations had been overrun , or partly overrun , in wars for centuries past . |
| 4 | However , abolitionists who began as moralists had been ‘ constrained by the necessities of their struggle ’ to become hygienists . |
| 5 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 8 | This reply , however , turned out to be incorrect , as teachers had been asked for pen-portraits of the children for use at the Panel Hearings , and the Acting Director of Education Mike Drever had supported the request . |
| 9 | She had regarded men as men had been used to regard women : pleasant and pleasurable enough when they stayed in line but outside the mainstream of life and more or less irrelevant to its principal purpose , which was keeping body and soul together with as little effort and as much comfort as was practically consistent with this aim . |
| 10 | For some of them their changed lives had brought a realisation of what their roles as women had been in the past . |
| 11 | Women pledged not to use feathers for decoration , and when the Society for the Protection of Birds was first founded in Britain , men were excluded — just as women had been excluded from the ranks of many scientific societies . |
| 12 | The incident was filmed , as others had been , so that student leaders could be later identified . |
| 13 | The republican constitution was changed ( as others had been ) to exclude the leading role of the Communist Party , and an entirely new constitution began to be drafted which would itself be ‘ deideologised ’ . |