Example sentences of "[adv] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tutorial Classes were firmly in the university sector and some LEAs were arranging classes which hitherto had been the preserve of the WEA , e.g. civics and esperanto , and even as early as 1936 , the number was relatively substantial ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 2 | When pressure was eventually put on L.E.A.s in the 1950s to take over employment of the various county organisers whose salaries hitherto had been paid from Carnegie Trust funds , most authorities did so on condition that the organisers ' work should be extended to schools . |
| 3 | Her life hitherto had been a preparation — she recognized that now . |
| 4 | The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models . |
| 5 | Slave owners who became Christians revolutionised their treatment of slaves , giving to them the justice and the fair treatment that hitherto had been unknown in the ancient world . |
| 6 | What hitherto had been integrated plants in countries like the UK , carrying out complete manufacturing processes , are closed down and rationalized in order to manufacture products more cheaply from parts manufactured by workers divided between a number of countries . |
| 7 | With the decline in the herring fishing , followed by a complete ban on all herring catching in an endeavour to build up stocks again , the pelagic catchers turned their attentions to mackerel which hitherto had been despised as food in the North of Scotland . |
| 8 | Her young men hitherto had been in the City , or in advertising , chartered accountancy , or even television . |
| 9 | I hope that that demonstrates that the persistence of my hon. Friend has , if nothing else , at least found the receipt that hitherto had been missing . |
| 10 | Announcing the changes , Ratsiraka also said that he favoured lifting restrictions on political parties , which hitherto had been required to belong to the FNDR . |
| 11 | As the risk and returns of most of the assets can not be observed the tests hitherto had been biased . |
| 12 | It had been all very well announcing that he was going to make a privateering cruise , but the preparations for it and the difficulties in getting a crew together had been enormous . |
| 13 | Their last work together had been with a dead child . |
| 14 | Sally-Anne took the kiss and the last sight of him standing in the parlour in his beautiful evening clothes up to bed with her , and agreed with him — for really the end of the evening and their happy supper together had been the best thing of all . |
| 15 | At the end of an hour , only one ‘ little feller ’ too young to know better had been in Auguste 's possession , and William and Joseph were scarcely able to restrain their mirth . |
| 16 | Much had been wrong . |
| 17 | A Neopolitan nobleman , Federico Grisone , studied Xenophon 's books concerning horses ; and as a result of this he not only opened a riding academy where young noblemen , including the sons of many European kings and princes , were tutored in the arts of handling horses and courtly behaviour ; but he also published , in 1550 , his book Ordini di Cavalcare , of which much had been copied from Xenophon 's works . |
| 18 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |
| 19 | So much had been expected , yet it was a carbon copy of the wipe-out on the same track three years ago , and may signal a pruning down in future transatlantic visits for the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 20 | Much had been foretold , but the ultimate outcome was unknown , unknowable . |
| 21 | This much had been confided to him ; and he had deemed it discreet to pry no further — had been persuaded of the wisdom of discretion . |
| 22 | Although much had been achieved by 1974 Barrett argued that ‘ the best is yet to be ’ ( see also chapter 10 , p. 211 ) . |
| 23 | The new culture of Byzantium , taking over from the dying Roman Empire , needed few secular buildings ( except in the capital itself ) for , although much had been destroyed , the population was greatly depleted . |
| 24 | She was shivering , but it was not with the cold , nor even reaction to what apparently had been a near escape . |
| 25 | However , the SPO 's electoral prospects apparently had been damaged by Draskovic 's earlier calls , much toned down during the campaign , for redrawing Serbia 's borders to include parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia : many voters were frightened away by what sounded like a call for civil war . |
| 26 | The justices in the court below had been right to conclude that the police had ‘ reasonable grounds for believing that , if they were not present at the meeting , there would be seditious speeches and other incitements to violence and breaches of the peace would occur ’ . |
| 27 | Shrinkage was not caused by exterior shell erosion because the outside periostracum was largely unbroken in shrinking shells and the nacre and crystalline layers inside had been removed , leaving the excess periostracum . |
| 28 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 29 | Those inside had been given their instructions . |
| 30 | Something inside had been hoping against all logic for a different answer . |