Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] had be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 2 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 3 | They accepted the claims without question and assumed , equally without question , that the detained paramilitary men from the Rathcoole district had been responsible for both of the specified shooting atrocities . |
| 4 | Half the vacant land in the study area had been empty for at least two years and , on the likely level of public and private resources , the consultants predicted that three-quarters would still be vacant in 1980 , five years after their survey . |
| 5 | Alien species beating natives on their home ground had been decisive for Lyell 's species extinction theorising , where the analogy with the European human conquests over America Indians was explicit . |
| 6 | The government , denying UNITA 's accusations , gave details of the confinement of over 22,500 troops and claimed that proposals on the election process had been ready for approval on Sept. 10 , but that UNITA had taken an " obstructionist position " . |
| 7 | Compact disc technology had been available for some time , but the quadraphonic experiment had failed and videotape technology was in something of an impasse . |
| 8 | Polly 's bright cotton skirt and sleeveless white broderie anglaise top had been perfect for shopping in the balmy warmth . |
| 9 | An inquiry into the crash concluded in December that pilot error had been responsible for the accident [ see also p. 37898 ] . |
| 10 | For example , Field End House had been open for three years as a specialist unit for children with learning difficulties , and was designed to offer respite ‘ round the clock ’ care . |
| 11 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 12 | It is true that oceanic , river , lake , and only rudimentary land transport had been responsible for the extension of Christendom and the transfer of Iberian culture to Latin America and elsewhere , for the establishment of Dutch power in the East , British hegemony in India , French authority in North Africa , and the carving out of the great territories of white settlement . |