Example sentences of "of [noun prp] had be " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was reported on Feb. 17 that workers in over 20 enterprises in the port of Galati had been striking against the state of negotiations on the national labour agreement . |
| 32 | The British money markets had become an international laundering centre for profits from illicit drug trafficking but the response of the Bank of England had been ‘ passive . ’ |
| 33 | It went clean through the Redruth posts and the Soviet Union 's first tour of England had been well and truly launched . |
| 34 | For about four centuries the rulers of England had been trying to conquer and rule France , Scotland , and Ireland , but they had just lost their last foothold in France at Calais , their position in Ireland was as insecure as it had ever been , and the Scottish problem had taken an altogether new turn because Mary the Queen of Scotland could present a good claim to the English throne . |
| 35 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 36 | The first was that , since the eleventh century , the kings of England had been lords of much of north-western France , an area extending from Normandy ( in the time of William the Conqueror ) through Maine , Anjou , Touraine , and Poitou to the duchy of Aquitaine which , a century later , Henry II had come to control through his marriage to the duchess , Eleanor , previously the wife of Louis VII of France . |
| 37 | This caused considerable apprehension , for the Queen of England had been excommunicated by the Holy Father only three years before , and her privateers were taking revenge on her behalf by acts of piracy against the friends of Rome . |
| 38 | By the 1880s guides to all the railways of England had been published by Cassell 's . |
| 39 | But this was no more than the beginning ; for by now they knew very well that there were French knights fighting with the Scottish companies , and in fair numbers , too , and the south of England had been warned to look to its defences in case of a direct assault from across the channel . |
| 40 | His imaginative pulse quickened almost at once , and in the second week of May he was able to report.that no fewer than 1,500 lines of Osorio had been completed . |
| 41 | At no. 6 lived Anne Knight , a widow born in Horningsham , Wilts. , where , by coincidence , a number of Titfords had been baptised in the mid-17th century ; no. 8 contained the Tomlinson family , a hay salesman 's bookkeeper from Norwich ; George Childs at no. 10 described himself grandly as a ‘ Landscape Painter ’ , and at no. 14 a lady called Mary Archer was in business as a private lodging-house keeper , assisted by Eliza Wade , her 17-year-old servant from Stepney . |
| 42 | Philip Augustus 's marriage to Ingeborg of Denmark had been made in the hope that the Danish king , who was pro-Welf would support him against the English . |
| 43 | And that the ships had again been delayed : the long-awaited new ships commissioned from King Svein of Denmark , about which King Svein of Denmark had been so apologetic . |
| 44 | Grainne thought it was strange that she had never before realised how many Kings of Ireland had been exiled and had later returned . |
| 45 | Before becoming Bishop of Durham in 1 197 , Master Philip of Poitiers had been a clerk of the King 's chamber and his constant companion . |
| 46 | The Battle of Falkirk had been another Jacobite victory , Prince Charles having lost 50 dead and 80 wounded , while Hawley 's casualties , suffered in a mere 20 minutes , amounted to 350 killed and another 300 taken prisoner . |
| 47 | The Italians were more united , but the traditions of the old army of Sardinia had been diluted by the disgruntled soldiers of other pre-unification states . |
| 48 | Foreign press reports in March claimed that over the past year up to 400,000 people from shanty towns in the outskirts of Khartoum had been forcibly relocated to areas outside the city [ for December 1991 killings of shanty-town dwellers see p. 38666 ] . |
| 49 | It said the nearby village of Osmace had been encircled . |
| 50 | But what is equally incredible is that the inhabitants of Seascale had been suffering from the Windscale piles for several years before the fire . |
| 51 | Between 1144 and 1154 , as the result of a series of flukes unscrupulously exploited , the position of the Count of Anjou had been transformed . |
| 52 | The rump of Layforce had been formed into the Middle East Commando , which later became known as I Special Service Regiment . |
| 53 | The HDZ government of Croatia had been building its own army : it had 35,000 police units of which 25,000 were in the reserves and 10,000 belong to special units . |
| 54 | Everyone he had met in Fontanellato had been very kind , a good deal kinder than the people of Štanjel had been to his successor ; which was encouraging . |
| 55 | It was further confirmed that while members of ASMT had been rightly involved in the process of planning the 93/94 visits via Plan requests etc. , ASMT meetings as such were not the place to negotiate details of the programme . |
| 56 | However , by the seventh century , the powerful blood of Clovis had been diluted considerably and King Sigibert III of the Merovings was a mere puppet under the control of his Mayor of the Palace . |
| 57 | Architecture taken out of Palladio had been translated into English and published in England in 1663 , as had Gerbier 's Counsel and Advice to Builders . |
| 58 | On 24 April 1990 , soon after the old board of Astra had been toppled and a week after parts of the Iraqi Supergun were seized by Customs at Teesside , John was arrested at his son 's home in Fort William , Scotland , by the Ministry of Defence . |
| 59 | After the Portuguese mission left Abyssinia , Lebna Dengel found himself increasingly faced by the threat from the Muslim states of Ifat and of Adal , which included Harar , with which ever since the fourteenth century the Emperors of Abyssinia had been intermittently at war ; these states were forever encroaching on the eastern borders of the empire in a war of raid and counter-raid . |
| 60 | The parallel National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma had been set up principally by exiled members of the National League for Democracy , the main opposition party which had won a landslide victory in the May 1990 elections but had subsequently been prevented by the SLORC from taking power . |