Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some plans in existence and he studied old maps by R. Casson and J. Berry , which had appeared last in 1757 before the copper plates for them had been taken over by Harrop . |
| 2 | Mrs Travers and Mrs Patel had shown flair for public relations from the beginning ; and the beginning for them had been shortly after the famed conversation in Sainsbury 's , when they organised a summer procession in honour of family values in a South London borough particularly hard hit by both government spending cuts and feminists insisting that ‘ family values ’ were a euphemism for women doing the housework . |
| 3 | By an originating summons dated 18 December 1991 the plaintiffs , the Halifax Building Society , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , the Leeds Permanent Building Society , and the Alliance and Leicester Building Society , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that , upon the true construction of the ombudsman scheme recognised under Part IX of the Building Societies Act 1986 , the first defendant Stephen Bristow Edell , the ombudsman appointed under the scheme , was not entitled to investigate or determine ( a ) the complaint against the first plaintiff received by him from Michael Robert Allen and Christine Allen , the second and third defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation for mortgage assessment prepared for the first plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( b ) the complaint against the second plaintiff received by him from Jeffrey Leonard Brommage and Heather Maureen Brommage , the fourth and fifth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the second plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( c ) the complaint against the third plaintiff received by him from Lawrence Frederick West and Christa West , the sixth and seventh defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the third plaintiff had been negligently prepared , and ( d ) the complaint against the fourth plaintiff received by him from Joseph Paul Hardcastle and Astrid Marie Hardcastle , the eighth and ninth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for them had been negligently prepared ; and ( 2 ) a determination , upon the true construction of the scheme , whether and if so in what circumstances the first defendant was entitled to investigate and determine a complaint relating to an allegation of failure to exercise the requisite degree of professional skill and care on the part of a valuer or surveyor employed by the building society against which the complaint was made in relation to a report by him on the condition or value of any property where the report in question consisted of : ( a ) a written report prepared pursuant to section 13 of the Building Societies Act 1986 for a building society on the value of the land which was proposed as security for an advance to be made by the society and on any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value and is not disqualified under section 13 from making a report on the land in question , ( b ) a written valuers ' report and valuation for mortgage prepared for the first plaintiff , ( c ) such a report prepared for the second plaintiff , ( d ) such a report prepared for the third plaintiff , ( e ) such a report prepared for the fourth plaintiff , ( f ) a house buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , ( g ) a flat buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor , ( h ) a home buyer 's standard valuation and survey report prepared by an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard terms of engagement of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers , ( i ) a written report known as a ‘ home purchase report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the second plaintiff , ( j ) a written report known as a ‘ house buyer 's report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the third plaintiff , or ( k ) a structural survey report . |
| 4 | During most of Charman 's time with the group , the bond between them had been very strong . |
| 5 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 6 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 7 | Conversation between them had been a problem in the hospital where they first met , right up to the night when she pushed his cot into an empty room , locked the door , took off her uniform and climbed in beside him . |
| 8 | Since their visit to the opera relations between them had been distinctly cool ; and Owen was feeling the effects of being deprived . |
| 9 | And the years when she had had no-one to look after her had been disastrous . |
| 10 | No reason for either of them to write or telephone , not after what had been said . |
| 11 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |
| 12 | All she had been urged to do was relax and recover her health and spirits after what had been a very traumatic experience . |
| 13 | The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property . |
| 14 | The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) signed an historic commercial agreement with the Russian Space Agency on June 18 , the basis for which had been established at the June summit between US President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin [ see pp. 38985-86 ] . |
| 15 | Fifteen countries were represented by 30 women , each of whom had been invited on the basis of her contribution to theatre in her own country . |
| 16 | Even Waterman 's own trusted experts , stylist Sharron and dancer Claire , both of whom had been a backbone of Kylie 's organisation , took a back seat as Kylie took control herself . |
| 17 | The offences took place between 1977 and 1983 with boys then aged between 11 and 13 , some of whom had been abused by their parents before being taken into care . |
| 18 | An analysis by marital status and number of children showed that for the married the main difference was between those with no children , 17 per cent of whom had been in a residential home , and those with one or more , for whom the proportion was 5 per cent . |
| 19 | Crudely put , authority and leadership began to move from traditional leaders , be they the old pro Jordanian élite or the post-1976 pro-PLO mayors ( most of whom had been eliminated by the authorities ) , into new but less visible hands . |
| 20 | L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men , most of whom had been through the basic training course . |
| 21 | Of the other ranks , it was the desert veterans who made it back to the British lines , including Reg Seekings and Ted Badger , both of whom had been attached to B Squadron . |
| 22 | the convictions of ( 1 ) the person who took off his clothes in one of the fountains in Trafalgar Square ; ( 2 ) the persons who shouted ‘ Remember Biafra ’ during the two minutes ' silence at the 1969 Remembrance Day ceremony in Whitehall ; and ( 3 ) the person who painted the word ‘ Jews ’ in two foot high letters on the garden wall of a house occupied by a Jewish family , the father of whom had been a prisoner at Dachau . |
| 23 | The lands that they abandoned were gradually occupied by Albanians , most of whom had been converted to Islam . |
| 24 | The book was an elaboration of the idea in the original article along with a reply to critics , foremost of whom had been Bukharin . |
| 25 | She could see it in the covert glances of the London girls , some of whom had been planning how to look at the Belvoir dance for the past month . |
| 26 | On 10 May , Mrs W , the mother of fifteen children , eight of whom had been in care since the previous November , began an appeal against the care orders holding them . |
| 27 | She was also handling an interesting portfolio including two public companies , one of which was a small USM quoted property investment company , Capital and Regional Properties , run by Martin Barber , Xavier Pullen and Roger Boy-land , all of whom had been in the property business together for 20 years . |
| 28 | Comfortably and expensively furnished , the apartments were staffed by servants many of whom had been with the lady Alianor from the time of her marriage . |
| 29 | It would be hard saying goodbye to the servants , some of whom had been around since she was born , but it was something she would have to do , she simply had no choice . |
| 30 | Neill and Nicholls L.JJ. , both of whom had been members of the court sitting in Ashtiani v. |