Example sentences of "had be much " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the train as we rode past the spines of Manhattan to the flat rooftops of Brooklyn , he told me something of his travels in north America , indeed , he had been much further west than Jersey City , even beyond Chicago . |
| 2 | Despite the carnage elsewhere , the shares ended the day 36p better at 669p and had been much higher . |
| 3 | They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple , ‘ scrubbed ’ and ‘ puritanical ’ than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects . |
| 4 | The first priority was to re-establish the team unity that had been allowed to dwindle , with the result that there had been much arguing and bickering The old inter-island rivalries that Worrell had eradicated had surfaced again , and he knew the team would accomplish little until these disappeared . |
| 5 | Their ranks had been much augmented by the expansion of the salaried sector — managers , clerks , school teachers and civil servants . |
| 6 | Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works . |
| 7 | As mentioned earlier in this chapter , Jacques had been much encouraged by the attitude of the Hertfordshire LEA and the negotiated increased grant-aid for classes and courses . |
| 8 | He had been much taken with a small low-growing Kalmia at Whitton — from Pennsylvania so the Duke of Argyll had told him — but did not specifically request it . |
| 9 | We come closer to contemporary retirement with the second Roberts grandfather , a man who had been much less successful at work , and after failing as a shopkeeper had nearly failed as a farmer until his son took over . |
| 10 | Raving Red Sam had ridden a motor-bike once , she remembered , a job that had been much admired by the boys . |
| 11 | Yet there is striking evidence that carts and wagons had been much improved , and that bridges were being built in many parts to make it possible for them to go longer distances . |
| 12 | ( I once knew an elderly diplomat who had been much annoyed as a young man because he was suspected of having written under the pen-name of ‘ E. |
| 13 | Not that he was now smitten with Moray 's sister in any serious fashion , he could assure himself ; but he had been much impressed by her at Doune that time , her looks , her manner and behaviour , her quiet competence — and probably the fact that the young Steward was so evidently captivated , something which might hold its own challenge . |
| 14 | Sead , who had been much more harshly treated than Nijaz , could barely stand as they met yesterday . |
| 15 | She had been much comforted by Craig 's presence in the house these past weeks , but in her heart she had known the situation was an explosive one and could n't last . |
| 16 | By contrast Stephen thought the Rev. Baldwin had been much more effective as an agent being ‘ connected by birth with the higher orders ’ and because , as a religious man ( which by implication Thompson was not ) , he lectured from the heart . |
| 17 | This latter number had been much larger ; it included , until the recent amnesty , more than 2,000 former National Guardsmen and others convicted by the 1979–81 special courts ; of these only 39 remained in prison in October 1989 . |
| 18 | Other Democratic presidents , Harry Truman and John Kennedy , had been less well favoured in terms of congressional support and had been much troubled by the deep divisions in the party between northern liberals and southern conservatives . |
| 19 | When the Hooligans first put in an appearance , the floggers and die-hards had been much in evidence , but they were eased aside with the growing recognition that Hooliganism was a pointer towards a general dislocation among the youth — and not just a ‘ hard core ’ — and that the problem was therefore immune to a narrow penal response . |
| 20 | Churchill 's ideas concerning unemployment had been much influenced by Beveridge 's analysis of unemployment and by his proposals . |
| 21 | Forty years earlier , in the days of Ralph Sadler and Thomas Wriothesley , it had been much more hardly won . |
| 22 | Even before Vivien 's committal , Eliot had been much more free than in the days of his marriage ; in the summer of 1935 he was with Emily Hale in Gloucestershire , and also visited the Fabers in Wales . |
| 23 | and of Churchill and Addison , had been much criticised . |
| 24 | These were still available to twentieth-century American popular music , as analogous genres were to Bartók and Janáček ; but further , they could then become available also to European workers whose own cultural traditions had been much more nearly shattered and who could , by plugging into still vital transatlantic networks , renew or restart aspects appropriate to potential class-cultural formations . |
| 25 | He had been relatively easy to control in the north while it was clear that all the going rested with Hope but in London , Newton had been much more sinister . |
| 26 | Lionel had been much in evidence . |
| 27 | It had been much admired , for Mary brought it out time and again to show to favoured customers in the saloon bar . |
| 28 | There is a drawing of the yacht in the Sound of Islay and he went ashore at Port Askaig and into the house of the ferryman whilst a gig-cart was prepared to drive to " Shawfield on the opposite coast " where the grounds had been much embellished lately . |
| 29 | There is a drawing of the yacht in the Sound of Islay and he went ashore at Port Askaig and into the house of the ferryman whilst a gig-cart was prepared to drive to " Shawfield on the opposite coast " where the grounds had been much embellished lately . |
| 30 | Their distinctive features have been chronicled ( with evident pride ) by Schaffer ( 1970 ) and Evans ( 1972 ) ; the first because , as a civil servant , he had been much associated with the programme , the second because it was written for the Town and Country Planning Association , long the champions of planned dispersal . |