Example sentences of "[det] [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 2 | The entrance was through a small separate cell to the north-east , and it was this which had been tampered with . |
| 3 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 4 | There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour . |
| 5 | Overall , when the children on the course were compared to those in the control groups , it was found that none of them had taken up smoking and some who had been using snuff before the start of the programme had now given up . |
| 6 | Of course , there were some who had been bought by ORDEN , even secondary school pupils who were members of the Paramilitary groups . |
| 7 | Chester , who was soon to accompany Coleridge on the journey into Europe , was yet another who had been drawn to him ‘ as flies are to honey ’ , and now trotted happily beside his two talkative companions , bow-legged and awestruck . |
| 8 | Would a rescuer be denied an action on the ground of ex turpi causa , e.g. if one burglar was injured attempting to assist another who had been placed in danger by the dangerous condition of the house they were breaking into ? |
| 9 | Previous to this we had been left very much to our own resources . |
| 10 | Yes , but this creature would have known him , this one had been there , he had seen the Creation and the Fall … |
| 11 | This one had been snatched back . |
| 12 | And from that moment to this there had been no opportunity for any kind of personal discussion . |
| 13 | They did not recognize the British calendar , or , indeed , she was later to discover , their own : their first choice of conference date had been Boxing Day , but from this they had been dissuaded . |
| 14 | To do this he had been dropping dummies by parachute near Italian prisoner-of-war camps , and the advent of some real parachutists was an obvious gift . |
| 15 | As he moved away from the tree it became apparent to Marian that between him and the trunk lay a substantial sack , and that it was this he had been defending so stoutly . |
| 16 | Somewhat before this he had been introduced , probably by Anne Boleyn , to some rather more revolutionary reading matter : The Obedience of a Christian Man , written by the suspected heretic William Tyndale . |
| 17 | But it seems sad that so many did not have a more enjoyable sexual introduction , especially when for a few it had been the one and only time . |
| 18 | One way and another it had been a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon . |
| 19 | One way or another it had been quite a day , she decided , cooling down under the shower before she collapsed on to her bed . |
| 20 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 21 | It all becomes uncomfortably apparent and that which had been lived and accepted is opened up in a revelatory manner , so that the vice of being caught up within the hegemonies of such a system designed to control a powerless underclass can become overbearing . |
| 22 | That which had been so familiar to me and accepted almost without thinking now took on a new and almost bizzare aspect . |
| 23 | Winston Churchill died in 1965 and was given a State funeral comparable to that which had been afforded to the Duke of Wellington . |
| 24 | Any form of limited franchise , such as that which had been in operation since 1815 , was a direct affront to the principles of 1789 , which had declared the people to be sovereign . |
| 25 | Supporting this was a further partnership , that which had been established almost informally between each teaching force and the local authority for whom they worked . |
| 26 | But as a bolide descends to lower altitudes , C H declines inversely with atmospheric density , so that which had been increasing , becomes effectively constant . |
| 27 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 28 | Strong instructions went out to fields reviewing their progress and preparing proposals that there should be as little change as possible from that which had been originally approved . |
| 29 | The total sum was significantly higher than that which had been anticipated . |
| 30 | These included minimizing the deployment of the plainclothes units — the so-called " Skeleton Corps " — whose function it was to pursue and arrest protesters , reducing the use of tear gas , and prohibiting the use by riot police of equipment ( such as steel pipes ) other than that which had been officially provided . |