Example sentences of "while [noun pl] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Union leaders protested that while wages had been frozen at a low level , a freeze on prices could not be maintained because of the lack of government inspectors — a fear endorsed by Collor 's television appeal of Feb. 3 asking the general public to be watchdogs against price rises . |
| 2 | Some found the vessels unfit for sea , while others had been ‘ dismayed ’ by poor accommodation and had refused to travel . |
| 3 | Some found the vessels unfit for sea , while others had been ‘ dismayed ’ by poor accommodation and had refused to travel . |
| 4 | Lower down the hierarchy and , apparently , quite independently of his seniors , the young William Armstrong ( who was to head the Treasury in the 1960s and the Civil Service in the 1970s ) was , as Brook 's private secretary , trying to make sense of the proliferation of committees , some of which had been inherited from the Coalition while others had been created at a considerable rate by the new government . |
| 5 | In spite of the separate developments of the three companies in the past , dam lines based on the two major white breeds with the addition of the Danish Duroc blood for outdoor rearing , have proved remarkably similar , while boars had been developed to produce meat suitable for distinct markets , such as Parma ham in Italy . |