Example sentences of "[prep] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitudes and assumptions I 'd grown up with had been razed to the ground , and a bold new society had risen in their place , a free-enterprise , demand-driven , flaunt-it-and-fuck-you society , dedicated to excellence and achievement . |
| 2 | Still , the high expectations I had arrived with had been disappointed . |
| 3 | On July 13 the Home Affairs Minister , S. B. Chavan , who had visited Ayodhya the previous day , told the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) that the central government 's offer to provide additional security to ensure that the disputed land was not encroached upon had been turned down by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh . |
| 4 | And then , on top of such bad news , came another message , a letter from Phoebe saying she could not after all repay Wilson 's kindness by standing in for her because she had this very day been ordered back to England and arrangements she had no part in had been made . |
| 5 | The attitude of the men he had spoken to had been essentially laissez-faire , but some of the women , Raleigh Ward nurses especially , were still quite steamed up about it . |
| 6 | The only dances she had ever been to had been school dances , and she wanted to go to this one . |
| 7 | Jean Symonds , one of the women who organized resistance to the men , retorted that " the girls he referred to had been weighed against their will . |
| 8 | His wife might even be sparing a thought for the murdered women 's families , never guessing that the man she was married to had been the perpetrator . |
| 9 | The cautions referred to had been given and he had been questioned months earlier on the first charges . |
| 10 | The weddings I had been to had been like that , quite different from the wedding parties in the villages along the Nile : a deafening noise of drums and flutes , bright hot colours and people saying words I could n't understand . |
| 11 | A complete energy spectrum of all neutrons was needed but Fleischmann 's earlier hope that he could send cells to Harwell for them to make measurements on had been thwarted by customs and excise regulations . |
| 12 | The summer school job that she 'd been relying on had been cancelled at the very last minute and other temporary jobs were a bit thin on the ground . |
| 13 | It was she who had cared for him , and looked after him , too , until he died , and in the bed upstairs in which he had been born , and his father before him , in the days when this house had really been a farmhouse and the land about had been glowing with crops in their rotation . |
| 14 | The army command long pressed for a local ‘ home guard ’ such as had been the rule in Malaya , Kenya and other terrorist situations . |
| 15 | He imagined bone-wrenching exercises and an accelerated real-food diet , such as had been distinctly lacking since his father 's shaming . |
| 16 | It allowed coal and steel production on the Continent to be managed more effectively without the need for a restrictive ‘ cartel ’ of businessmen , such as had been formed by steel producers in the inter-war years . |
| 17 | Equally , enhanced redundancy compensation schemes , such as had been negotiated for the regular workers at several of the organisations to which we spoke , did not apply to the temporary workers , who ( unless they have at least two years ' service ) were also ineligible for any statutory payments . |
| 18 | It was clear to me that his own personal preoccupations , such as had been conveyed to me by Father D'Arcy and hinted at by others , had cut him off from the workings of certain institutions — his unawareness of Collingwood 's preferment was a case in point — and again he wanted to be informed what the young were thinking . |
| 19 | Such as had been recorded was all but inaudible ; though the sound of trains , children and wasps was clear enough . |
| 20 | In line with Ferreira da Nóbrega 's assurance that Brazil was not imposing a debt moratorium such as had been the case in February 1987 [ see pp. 35823-24 ; for lifting of moratorium see p. 36553 ] , and that payments would resume when the exchange situation permitted , payment was in fact made the following week . |
| 21 | The government announced on Dec. 2 , 1989 , that the value of the metical would in future be linked to that of a basket of currencies , of undisclosed content , rather than to the US dollar as had been the case since Jan. 31 , 1987 . |
| 22 | The ICJ declared that it was " not called upon to determine any of the questions " that had been raised by the Libyan submission to the Court , and would therefore not be taking any restraining " provisional measures " , such as had been sought by Libya . |
| 23 | Doctor Martin Novak 's team believes the virus does n't lie dormant as had been thought up till now , but rather copies itself or mutates . |
| 24 | It concluded more patients were being treated and waiting times had been cut . |
| 25 | Both young men then glanced at each other , clamming up in some embarrassment as they recalled that the fortune they were at this moment vying for had been lost by Benedict Beckenham , for the story of the will was naturally common knowledge among his intimates . |
| 26 | Gramont ended his speech , which all the way through had been punctuated by applause and cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ’ , by saying : |
| 27 | Now her plan to bluff her way through had been reduced to a pitiful shambles . |
| 28 | He was so used to the extremes of lust and commerce , of immediate gratification and protracted commercial dealing that the ground between had been long forgotten . |
| 29 | There had been no second rescue attempt — the first vessel had been destroyed by a rigged explosion — and the conclusion the survivors had arrived at had been that they were assumed killed . |