Example sentences of "[conj] had [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 26 , Citibank blamed the Indian banking system for irregularities in its Indian operations and denied that it had " accommodated " or had been involved with those implicated in the scandal . |
| 2 | And as the numbers of people marrying did not significantly decline ( between 1871 and 1947 , of those who lived to 45/54 , 85–88 per cent were or had been married ) , this means that less babies were born per family . |
| 3 | All the women in the study were or had been married and were aged between 20 and 59 . |
| 4 | Of a random sample of 644 female householders who were or had been married , 87 or 14% had been the victims of rape or attempted rape by their husbands or ex-husbands . |
| 5 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 6 | He denied that the paramilitaries had been linked to the drug traffickers or had been responsible for the massacres of campesinos attributed to them . |
| 7 | Loyalty , service , and duty were exactly the values which the ‘ boy labour ’ reformers sought to impress upon young workers , and as many of the reformers were also active , or had been active in one or more of the youth groups , they were sympathetic to the objectives of the Scout movement . |
| 8 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 9 | What enraged the liberals was that this involved placing political appointees at much lower levels of the hierarchies than had been usual , to increase the positive responsiveness of the bureaucracy to his policies . |
| 10 | It was characterized by a determined display of party unity , although this was tempered with a greater degree of realism than had been apparent in 1988 . |
| 11 | Judicial officials were given more guidance as to punishment than had been available previously , but a great deal of discretion remained . |
| 12 | A soft , padded horse-collar was widely used by the twelfth century ; this enabled horses to pull a variety of lighter and heavier carts , faster and over greater distances than had been possible before . |
| 13 | Appointing the FDP leader Walter Scheel as foreign minister and ably assisted by Egon Bahr , Brandt developed ‘ Ostpolitik ’ much more dramatically than had been possible under the Grand Coalition , in a situation where East-West détente was increasingly more welcome to the US and so need not endanger Western unity . |
| 14 | It supported Thames Television 's decision to screen the programme , which gave viewers a much fuller appreciation of the shootings than had been possible from government statements and MoD briefings . |
| 15 | The shock caused by Balfour 's going thus did something to steady the party and it certainly produced a real determination to settle the affairs of the party with less friction than had been fashionable of late . |
| 16 | We explained all this in detail in the Report ( see chapters 2 to 5 this book ) , and in fact our Report demanded far more teaching about language than had been customary in most classrooms during previous decades . |
| 17 | For secular courts , the consequence was a revival of inquest proceedings on a much more extended scale than had been common in the eleventh century , causing a demand for documentary proof that chanceries and monastic scriptoria were hard pressed to satisfy . |
| 18 | It was him , Philip , that had been violent . |
| 19 | Only nineteen MPs were heirs to peerages and of these seven were from families that had been Liberal before 1886 and another five were new creations since then ; thirty-eight MPs were related to peers by blood and another forty by marriage . |
| 20 | When applicable , these two sources of law provided shippers with benefits that had been unavailable under the Harter Act . |
| 21 | When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair . |
| 22 | The second defendant also drove negligently and collided with the vehicles that had been involved in the first accident , killing the plaintiff . |
| 23 | And further , he said that it was his determination to see me again , to persuade me to live with him , that had streng-thened in him the desire to go on living , a desire that had been weak since the death of Montaine . |
| 24 | Not an appropriate analogy as fairy tales and pantomimes are the Devil 's tools , I 'm sure — Ness District deleted ‘ Devil 's Dance ’ from the SCO posters — but all that had been asleep was now activated . |
| 25 | As a result of the ‘ literate mentality ’ that these institutions helped to form in England , and to which Lyons and fellow academics now subscribe , later historians , looking back to records of eleventh century England , tended to discard medallions , seals and other material objects that had been major criteria of validation in the oral culture of that period . |
| 26 | For example , the addition of magnesium fertilizers in Norway and Germany 's Black Forest has resulted in recovery in young spruce trees that had been suffering chlorosis ( Printz , 1987 ) . |
| 27 | The danger of internal dispute was recognised and the KPR strove to achieve coalescence of all elements whether right or left , that had been opposed to the Japanese . |
| 28 | But all addressed the themes that had been crucial in other traditions . |
| 29 | Stirred in her veins that had been sad so long , |
| 30 | The threatening cloud of gloom that had been pea-sized when they 'd set out for Host Street grew to storm proportions . |