Example sentences of "london had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | London had been grit grey for months , and Jay fought the sunless skies with the blade of keen memory . |
| 2 | If London had been given time to study these , it would have seen that Smurfit is looking well placed in a world market notoriously prone to cyclical demand . |
| 3 | London had been too crowded , and the suburbs too typecast . |
| 4 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 5 | So far , everything he had produced in London had been lighthearted , but his next creation , Sea Change , was a complete contrast in mood . |
| 6 | His tour of duty as security officer in the Soviet embassy in London had been a miserable period of his life : He had found the English so dull , preoccupied with strikes , a falling balance of payments and high unemployment . |
| 7 | By then , 23,000 people within range of Alexandra Palace in London had been able to watch Shakespeare , variety , the Derby and the return of the King and Queen from a visit to Canada . |
| 8 | Only six winters earlier , respectable London had been awash with fears of violent crime . |
| 9 | He admitted that , while English at Oxford and London had been " admirable for training editors and literary historians " , it was " too inflexibly academic " to meet more general contemporary needs . |
| 10 | In 1801 the population of London had been 900,000 ; by 1831 , at 1,654,994 , it had nearly doubled . |
| 11 | Whereas Greater London had been losing 90 000 people a year at the beginning of the 1970s ( figure 8.3 ) , its population is estimated actually to have grown between 1983 and 1986 , reaching a level of 6.78 million in 1986 . |
| 12 | London had been given no such attention , but The London Society since 1912 had been undertaking work which was brought together in essays edited by Sir Aston Webb ( 1921 ) . |
| 13 | London had been exciting , but she had not shone out there , she felt , the way she had here . |
| 14 | His plan for a metropolitan see at London had been stillborn but he had rid himself of the problem of Lichfield ( a process completed by 803 ) , successfully confounded his enemies and consolidated the position Offa had established at the height of his power . |
| 15 | Bathing , which before leaving London had been deemed suitable only for the lower classes , suddenly seemed a most adventurous and desirable way of spending an afternoon . |
| 16 | The belief that lavish entertainment was an indispensable part of successful diplomacy was not quite dead by the mid-century : a generation earlier the vicomte de Chateaubriand on his appointment to London had been careful to take with him Montmirel , reputedly the best cook of the age . |
| 17 | The embassy in London had been sending disturbing accounts of Britain 's over-stretched economy and defence forces well before Labour took office . |
| 18 | There were Tory monied men ; indeed , before the financial revolution , the monied interest in the City of London had been predominantly Tory . |
| 19 | England has lost 70,000 hectares of farmland in the past 50 years — an area equivalent in size to the whole of Berkshire , Hertfordshire , Oxfordshire and Greater London combined — with the south-east losing as much land to development as if Greater London had been built all over again . |
| 20 | And for one veteran , from Cinderford in the Forest of Dean , the excitement of coming to London had been just the start of an amazing day . |