Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any surplus votes they had are re-allocated to the candidate who gets the second preference . |
| 2 | This was the first time a fully operational power plant had been decommissioned . |
| 3 | Edinburgh , Glasgow , and London ( particularly Imperial College ) universities have all been involved in major research projects in this area , although the major structural problems had been elucidated in 1906 by scientists from the then Geological Survey of Scotland ( Peach and others . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , at Verdun when the battle began it had been outmatched — in numbers alone — by nearly five to one . |
| 5 | I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers . |
| 6 | He had just left the Council at which the new decrees had been pronounced . |
| 7 | I have already said that anathema had been pronounced over the Avant-garde from the beginning of the Thirties , and that made it very difficult for the avant-garde artists themselves , as well as for their families . |
| 8 | However , on Aug. 16 the Swedish Supreme Court ruled that Mikhail Mokretsov , 19 , who had hijacked an airliner to Stockholm on July 5 , should stand trial in Sweden ( he had attempted suicide while in custody , and had been pronounced mentally unfit to face extradition ) . |
| 9 | On Aug. 26 Sampson had begun legal proceedings to secure an early release , arguing that 11 years in exile in France should count towards his sentence , which had been pronounced in 1976 [ see p. 27980 ] . |
| 10 | An earlier breakthrough by an enemy motor rifle division supported by tanks and artillery had been halted by 6th Armoured Brigade , of which the Royal Scots form a part . |
| 11 | His extraordinary run of successes had been halted , the links of his apparent infallibility for the first time broken . |
| 12 | The decline of the Scottish Tory Party which had marred the Thatcher years had been halted . |
| 13 | The inter-war German democracy was precarious precisely because it was grafted on to a social order that had failed to create the very basic social and political conditions that would allow a democratic system to flourish , but also because while German expansion in the east had been halted , the drive to the east was still seen as a tantalising solution to all of Germany 's problems . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , all attacks by the German centre , west of Verdun and at Nancy , had been halted with heavy loss . |
| 15 | The spring of 1915 thus found the Allies dug in opposite the German Army , which had been halted on the Marne . |
| 16 | But although it brought victory to the Black Prince , the battle of Nájera was to be the cause of the renewal of the war which had been halted in 1360 . |
| 17 | After the Croats , who had been halted around Bleiburg , had been disarmed ( they also included many civilians ) , they were force-marched out of Austria into Yugoslavia . |
| 18 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 19 | Communications were no doubt temporarily dislocated : our jam-packed train had been halted during the night owing to an air raid in the region . |
| 20 | Iliescu also announced that work on unfinished grandiose construction and infrastructural projects had been halted pending an investigation of their economic worth . |
| 21 | In a statement issued on Feb. 7 , 1990 , however , it said that some $2,000 million had been spent on an operation which had been halted in mid-September for climatic reasons . |
| 22 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 23 | The UN programme had been halted in December after the government alleged that UNITA forces were disrupting the convoys . |
| 24 | Investigations had been halted since December 1990 when the Delhi High Court found irregularities in the preliminary charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) . |
| 25 | The third round of talks , in May , had been halted over the same issue [ see p. 38191 ] . |
| 26 | During the Cienfuegos speech Castro confirmed that work on the Juraga nuclear power plant in Cienfuegos , the construction work on which was begun in 1972 and which was now 90 per cent complete at an estimated cost of US$1,000 million , had been halted indefinitely for lack of funds . |
| 27 | Nezavisimaya gazeta of Sept. 18 reported that the withdrawal of the Russian regiment stationed in Kishinev [ see p. 39060 ] had been halted due to Moldovan Defence Ministry protests over the removal of military equipment which it claimed should be transferred to the republic . |
| 28 | The group also reportedly condemned the SPLA 's threat to attack relief flights into Juba , which had been halted on Sept. 7 , because of rebel fire [ see p. 38993 for UN airlift ] . |
| 29 | Construction work had been halted a week earlier in line with EC demands . |
| 30 | Vincent Piedboeuf , computer systems project leader for the international organisation , revealed that vital research into the disease had been halted when the computer became overloaded and crashed and said EORTC had been saddled with a gigantic phone bill . |