Example sentences of "[conj] had be " in BNC.

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1 But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction .
2 He admitted that some people in Hong Kong had been alarmed by reports of carnage in Peking but said this was only because they ‘ misunderstood ’ or had been misled by the ‘ false reporting and even rumour of some news media ’ .
3 Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell .
4 Mrs Morgan did think there was , or had been , something with her boss .
5 Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all .
6 Even though she was walking normally I felt worried and thought maybe she was sick or had been hurt .
7 Whereas on earlier occasions where bad news or unfavourable developments had occurred , the view had prevailed — at least in public utterances — that the Führer had been badly counselled or had been kept uninformed , in the case of Stalingrad Hitler was directly implicated in the catastrophe .
8 All of these bodies had either been confined to MPs or had been expressions of ‘ Political Dissent ’ and had overlapped in membership , support and aims ; all had been shunned by most Methodists .
9 In a significant break with his predecessor , Mr Major offered junior and middle-ranking ministerial posts to several senior backbenchers who had been overlooked by Mrs Thatcher or had been kept out of her government .
10 Even Poole , the District 's own Organising Secretary in Norfolk and Norwich , had been asked by a Cambridge Board officer not to go ‘ … into towns or villages where there was or had been Extension work ’ .
11 This is a parish in the counties of Argyll , Inverness-shire , Ross and Cromarty , Sutherland , Caithness and the northern islands where there was in 1886 , or had been in the previous 80 years , holdings of arable land with rights of common pasture .
12 Enraptured by the celluloid screen , we revelled in the romance that had been denied to us , or had been put in cold storage ‘ for the duration , .
13 I have not succeeded in finding a clear-cut English instance [ excluding Swift ] in which a satirist , on an economic issue , was attacking a social group clearly higher than the one he belonged to or had been hired to serve .
14 Maggie had forgotten about them , but there were several — or had been several — in Heymouth , including one in the lighthouse .
15 EVERYONE in the artistic world of Montparnasse knew Modi , drank with Modi or had been sketched by him .
16 He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved .
17 Faced with this , Amy had seemed to abandon her frivolous society friends — or had been abandoned by them — and turned to someone she could trust .
18 By ten p.m. certain members of the company were sniffing coke or had been turned on by acid or speed or grass .
19 In the circumstances ( that is , of Jack 's plan to have his wife and mistress under one roof ) it had been necessary for Patrick to move , and Patrick , being distinctly better , had moved , or had been moved .
20 He was perfectly happy that way , or had been up to now , but it was n't a body to put to competition .
21 If other members of the psychogeriatric team had agreed that the development officer should try to support some of these clients , or had been pressing to have them discharged , she would undoubtedly have agreed to try .
22 I decided that there might well be a few odd cancer cells lurking about that my immune system had n't spotted or had been too demoralized to deal with — and anyway , was n't I , like everyone else , making thousands of cancer cells every day ?
23 Loyalty , service , and duty were exactly the values which the ‘ boy labour ’ reformers sought to impress upon young workers , and as many of the reformers were also active , or had been active in one or more of the youth groups , they were sympathetic to the objectives of the Scout movement .
24 It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal .
25 ‘ The builder had either spent three weeks cleaning it or had been kept in pristine condition , ’ says Darren .
26 There was no sound of a human voice enquiring for his safety ; he shouted that he was safe , but gave up when he got no re-assuring reply ; he wondered if his friends had reached safety or had been caught under the falling rock .
27 Sometimes when the little ones were weakly or had been abandoned by their mothers , we would have to take them inside and feed them by hand .
28 Anyone who 'd paid money for their dog , or did n't know where it had been , should take it to the god in Lāmri to be blessed and cured : and if anyone had been bitten recently , or had been in contact with the rabid dog , they too should see that god .
29 And with a flash of insight Delaney realised that was what it was — or had been : the headgear of one of the deep sea diving suits .
30 Everyone who could was playing this confidence trick on his neighbour — a sophisticated pretence that one 's family was , or had been , one of the noblest in the land .
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