Example sentences of "[Wh adv] the [noun sg] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was officially denied , commentators suggested that the decision had been taken in order to settle the lingering controversy surrounding the referendum of 1946 , widely believed to have been rigged by the communists , whereby the monarchy had been abolished . |
| 2 | In 1970 an agreement was reached between British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England to make part of the site accessible to the public and , so far as possible , to clear sufficient of the track to enable people to get some idea of how the system had been constructed and how it operated . |
| 3 | Eight women said their husbands never passed opinions about how the housework had been done : |
| 4 | The court had heard how the raid had been abandoned after a cache of tools and equipment commonly used in bank raids was discovered in a bus shelter . |
| 5 | Sitting in Pat 's front room , surrounded by her nine Labradors , many of whom are rescue cases themselves , I asked Pat how the charity had been formed and what the situation was at present . |
| 6 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 7 | The Sun ‘ exclusive ’ seemed to rely on ‘ friends ’ for their reports on how the wife had been ‘ shattered ’ . |
| 8 | The Sun identified the exact hospital and also mentioned how the wife had been living with her mother in a named town since her husband 's arrest . |
| 9 | Asked how the princess had been during lunch , Lord Healey said : ‘ The princess was wonderful . |
| 10 | Just as she reached forward with her car key she saw how the window had been forced and the catch freed to open the door . |
| 11 | However , he had not forgotten Selkirk 's death and , when we were alone , constantly speculated on how the Scotsman had been murdered and what his enigmatic rhyme could mean . |
| 12 | He studied each of the corpses , noting how the rope had been tied firmly behind one ear . |
| 13 | Even Wilson himself was not clear how the miracle had been worked . |
| 14 | It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself . |
| 15 | Hayling recognized at the time how the project had been damaged . |
| 16 | He also described a call he had made later to his friend Hartmut Mayer of the BKA asking him if he knew how the bomb had been put aboard Flight 103 . |
| 17 | His parents had not asked him what sort of holiday he had had or how the flight had been . |
| 18 | McAteer could not remember having been struck there and made no claim as to how the injury had been caused . |
| 19 | The Collector did not know how the magazine had been blown up but he did not stop to wonder . |
| 20 | The second edition of Lewis 's ‘ Topographical Dictionary ’ in 1840 speaks of how the town had been greatly improved during the previous 40 years . |
| 21 | Again and again , people told me in Prague earlier this month how the Forum had been held together at difficult moments by his irrestistible decency and gentle authority . |
| 22 | ‘ I tried to imagine how the world had been created , and I imagined Sooty — you know ; the glove puppet — ’ |
| 23 | When displayed in the great cities of the east , and in the capitals of Europe , the larger dinosaurs seemed to confirm the superiority of modern industrial society by showing how the world had been conquered both in space and time . |
| 24 | This was where the stone had been hewn to build the farms of the dale . |
| 25 | With a nice sense of history the first Delegates Conference was convened in September 1923 in Leeds , where the BDDA had been inaugurated . |
| 26 | To the point where the tour had been cancelled about four times . |
| 27 | Beside it , the tower where the Shuttle had been launched looked like a pin alongside a very large black plate . |
| 28 | Just over 4 in 10 ( 42% ) dependent children in 1987 lived in a household where the head had been out of work for two or more years . |
| 29 | Moxie folded the quilt and put it in the corner where the bed had been . |
| 30 | Myeloski led them to the room where the girl had been found . |