Example sentences of "had be [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 2 | Young , innocent , they had been malleable in those hands which were so practised in making something valuable out of raw or damaged material . |
| 3 | Compact disc technology had been available for some time , but the quadraphonic experiment had failed and videotape technology was in something of an impasse . |
| 4 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 5 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 6 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 7 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 8 | From the head 's point of view , the library had been underfunded for some time with an annual capitation of some £860 , supplemented ( not always willingly ) by a 5% levy on the capitation of each department . |
| 9 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 10 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 11 | ‘ Was that why you told Danny she shaved ? ’ asked Camille , who had been present on that occasion . |
| 12 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 13 | Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years . |
| 14 | Lynall Urwick put forward a counter-argument that a wide span of control had been possible in this example because the work of the merchandising managers did not interlock , and so the need for coordination and integration was not present : this reduced the burdens of supervision and made a wider span of control feasible . |
| 15 | Since then they had been awkward in each other 's company and everything seemed to have gone wrong . |
| 16 | He had been best man at their wedding — a formidable pre-nuptial agreement had been necessary for that capitulation — and had carried out his duties with a mixture of incompetence , vulgarity and irreverence which , as she occasionally enjoyed telling Norman , had spoilt for her the memory of her big day . |
| 17 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 18 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 19 | Party contributions had been compulsory for all citizens prior to the RPT 's dissolution . |
| 20 | The beginning of term trip to Keswick had been successful despite few numbers . |
| 21 | Even if the policies of successive governments since World War II had been successful in all respects , would we now be in a different situation fiscally and socially ? |
| 22 | Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition . |
| 23 | A typical Capricorn characteristic , if Debbie 's notes had been accurate in any way at all ! |
| 24 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 25 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 26 | As noted in an earlier chapter , the Irish republican population had been hyper-sensitive about that body of men with its ruthless reputation . |
| 27 | Just as fate had been unkind in many ways to those Titfords who had stayed in Frome throughout the 18th century , so it had been a firm friend to the descendants of William the Emigrant after his arrival in Kent . |
| 28 | Before the arrival of the Romans , the native Britons had been skilled at many kinds of crafts . |
| 29 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 30 | Elise 's parents had been involved in that accident , too , and it was only after the two cousins lost their families that they became so close . |