Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun sg] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing to show how long the game or the Society had been in abeyance before the meeting but in the same record a minute implies that the Society had been formed in 1483 . |
| 2 | The wine , I mean ; the vineyard and vintage , um … whether it was south slope or the soil had been especially acidic that year . " |
| 3 | Or the picture had been transformed , temporarily , into a mirror . |
| 4 | Specifically , neither the King nor the court had been informed . |
| 5 | Neither the bathroom nor the kitchen had been cleaned recently . |
| 6 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 7 | By the time I arrived at B.P. there was need for many more of those whom Peter Calvocoressi calls the Indians , and the net had been cast wider to trawl the less élite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 8 | The Mini was back in use and the Glory had been relegated to the garage until she ‘ had time to check it out with Mr Chan ’ . |
| 9 | I had a little snigger ; it had to be fully ten minutes since the last stroke of eleven , and the thunder had been murmuring dark warnings ever since . |
| 10 | ‘ I read in my Harmsworth Magazine once that a man died because he ate rabbit pie and the rabbit had been eating belladonna . |
| 11 | On Aug. 29 an amnesty was announced for all political prisoners , said by the authorities to number 66 ; of these 44 had been arrested after the inter-ethnic massacres of August 1988 , and the rest had been accused of a plot against the government in March 1989 . |
| 12 | The structure which was destroyed by the construction of the town wall contained a row of some ten rooms ; the walls were about 1 m ( 3¼ ft ) thick , and the structure had been roofed with limestone slates . |
| 13 | The US , faced by the revival of European and Japanese competition , by inflation and the costs of the Vietnam war , could no longer remain the foundation stone of a world currency system and the dollar had been ‘ floated ’ in August 1971 . |
| 14 | It was already past midnight , and the performance had been over an hour and a half . |
| 15 | A co-operative company for the canning of caviar , and the plan had been brilliant in its sauce and complexity . |
| 16 | Trotsky and the ice-man had been his attempt to solve the problem of why he was still alive despite having been shot in the head . |
| 17 | And the change had been with Pamela , not with him . |
| 18 | Hanging baskets with bright geraniums decorated the higher balconies and the courtyard had been turned into a spectacular garden , tubs of potted plants adorning the old paving . |
| 19 | It was early evening and the day had been too long . |
| 20 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |
| 21 | Negotiations between the DNU-MRH and the government had been initiated at the Central America presidential summit held in Nicaragua in April 1990 [ see p. 37372 ] . |
| 22 | On Hogmanay , 1991 , Murray had produced some heroin in the back office and the depot had been closed early , the court heard . |
| 23 | Her family and friends were obscured by a grey mist and the aisle had been never-ending . |
| 24 | The inquest heard that on 30 August , 1988 , the security forces had become aware of a threat to the life of a former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier , and the shoot-out had been a result of the actions taken by the security forces because of the threat . |
| 25 | True , gay sexuality had featured with the Beats , with Kerouac 's ambivalent relationship with Ginsberg , his semi-love affair with Neal Cassidy ; and the subject had been touched on by the early underground , but rather in the way that Ezra Pound 's fascism had been treated , as an interesting eccentricity . |
| 26 | Thus , when the stone ramparts had been constructed years ago , there had been no mistress of Tracy Castle , and the pleasance had been abandoned and left outside the boundaries of the bailey . |
| 27 | Dublin and the past had been exorcised , even as the new fiction had been created . |
| 28 | There were few customers and the landlady had been leaning over the bar reading the Daily Mirror . |
| 29 | Employees of the publicly owned public transport company EAS had been on indefinite strike since July 23 and the army had been running a reduced transport service in the capital . |
| 30 | Echoing the ceiling , the woodwork was an immaculate white , picked out with crimson , and the floor had been sanded , showing a beautiful , if chipped , parquet . |