Example sentences of "[conj] had be " in BNC.
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| 31 | An article in the same issue explained that The Observer accepted assurances obtained at three different levels from the ‘ security authorities ’ that they had no evidence that Sir Harold or his private secretary , Lady Falkender , had been a target for KGB blackmail or had been ‘ a plant ’ . |
| 32 | This was a young lady , or had been ; they never knew anything . |
| 33 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 34 | Karkason was — or had been — a sooty jewel in the Imperium . |
| 35 | The Delos was — or had been — a rather splendid yacht . |
| 36 | Most , through divorce , widowhood , sickness or marriage to a low-paid man , were or had been , main family earners . |
| 37 | But , of course , the client had only approached the lawyer because the solutions she could think of — those available in everyday discourse — were inappropriate or had been tried and had failed . |
| 38 | Boeing had done their best to keep tabs on which aircraft had been sold to whom but some were no longer in service or had been damaged and discarded while one or two had even lost their identity , so that it was difficult to trace where they were and under whose jurisdiction they fell . |
| 39 | ‘ All three were working for INCUBUS — or had been until recently . |
| 40 | Those who joined her in France had their individual grievances against the court , and the bishops in their various ways either suffered financially at the hands of the king or had been prevented from properly exercising their episcopal authority . |
| 41 | In a study of nearly 650 children aged 14 to 17 , 98% knew that smoking harmed their health and 89% knew that passive smoking was harmful — yet one in five were , or had been , smokers . |
| 42 | Impoundments that went beyond that and involved policy change had occurred in the past , but these were either justified under the Commander-in-Chief clause in the Constitution , or had been the subject of consultation with congressional leaders . |
| 43 | If they wore a uniform or had been cast aside by Sarah so much the better . |
| 44 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |
| 45 | They were also asked how many of those identified had sought medical treatment , counselling , or had been arrested for drug offences during that same period . |
| 46 | And as the numbers of people marrying did not significantly decline ( between 1871 and 1947 , of those who lived to 45/54 , 85–88 per cent were or had been married ) , this means that less babies were born per family . |
| 47 | And since the master-manufacturer also financed the provision of land , buildings , machinery and equipment he was — or had been — also what would come to be called a capitalist . |
| 48 | If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter . |
| 49 | ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? ) |
| 50 | Bishops who themselves were , or had been , royal clerks often commended to the king 's service their own clerks and servants , and equally often found benefices for royal king 's clerks . |
| 51 | Rather he had discovered , or had been forced by historical development , to discover the limitations of his anti-royalism . |
| 52 | There are indeed indications in Patterson ( 1860 ) that raising of /a/ was , or had been , more widespread . |
| 53 | In some regions the transformation had taken place much earlier , as in Kent , or Essex , or Devon , where it had taken a different form altogether , and most of the fields had been reclaimed direct from forest and moorland without passing through the open-field stage at all , or had been enclosed from open field at an early date . |
| 54 | The applicants , Coventry Newspapers Ltd. , ( ‘ C.N.L. ’ ) , defendants in a libel action brought against them by David Woodley and Roger Clifford , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that C.N.L. were at liberty to receive from Michael Thomas Bromell copies of all such witness statements , notes , notebooks and other documents which had come into existence in the course of an investigation by the Police Complaints Authority into the conduct of David Woodley and Roger Clifford as had been read to or by the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) or had been referred to in open court during the hearing of Reg. v. Bromell ( unreported ) , 22 June 1992 , C.A. , on a reference , dated 10 May 1991 , of his case by the Home Secretary under section 17(1) ( a ) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 ; and/or ( 2 ) variation of the implied undertaking pursuant to which Michael Thomas Bromell had received the documents under the order of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) on 9 July 1991 , so as to permit him to disclose copies of all such documents described in ( 1 ) above to C.N.L. for the purpose of defending the libel action . |
| 55 | At least in manufacturing , fixed-term contract workers were more likely to be found in establishments where unions had a higher level of membership or had been granted recognition . |
| 56 | It was only in the hotels and catering industry that we encountered a widespread use of temporary working which was not only called casual working by the parties concerned but which also was likely to be , or had been , unequivocally accepted as such by labour courts . |
| 57 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 58 | We learned that there were still , or had been in the late 1950s , a fair number of working schooners in Nova Scotia . |
| 59 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 60 | Or had been in the right . |