Example sentences of "france had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of marriage into the royal house of France had been openly raised at least as early as September 1543 , and presumably had been in the mind of Mary of Guise long before that . |
| 2 | France had been hoping for a Kinnock victory , to provide a second socialist power in one of the leading EC countries to act as an ally for President Mitterrand at summit talks . |
| 3 | For several years France had been carrying out nuclear weapons tests on the remote Pacific island of Moruroa in the Pacific . |
| 4 | In Berlin , Bismarck pretended to believe that the internal instability affecting France presented a danger to the peace of Europe , remarking to the British Ambassador that : ‘ If the present Constitutional Government in France had been three years instead of three months in existence , there would be some chance for its duration and the maintenance of peace . ’ |
| 5 | France had been the major supporter of Euratom ; as the only one of the Six already possessing a nuclear programme , it obviously hoped to benefit most from the joint funding of the Community and to establish a domination of the nascent industry . |
| 6 | France and Belgium were the two lesser industrial powers and although France had been a big eighteenth-century producer of coal , her resources were unable to provide her with the fuel she needed for industry on the German scale . |
| 7 | Two hundred thousand veterans had been recalled to the Eagles , the half-pay officers had been restored to their battalions , and the arsenals of France had been filled . |
| 8 | One of the attractions for Englishmen in the long wars with France had been the prospects of conquering and ruling new territories . |
| 9 | From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands . |
| 10 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 11 | Yet it may be argued that part of the process was a search for the open sea which France had been denied until the early years of the thirteenth century , and that the desire to win control of the peripheral duchies of Aquitaine , Brittany and Normandy was but an aspect of a wider policy which included an ambition to have access to , and control of , the ports on the Atlantic , Mediterranean and Channel coasts for military as well as for commercial reasons . |
| 12 | France had been the western European nation most opposed to American concepts of data free flow . |
| 13 | ( Although , as the free export of arms to France had been permitted , the restrictions were more nominal than real . ) |
| 14 | In July 1939 Nizan publicly proclaimed that France had been betrayed by fascist infiltrators and fascist collaborators . |
| 15 | The flight from London to the Nice-Côte d'Azur airport in the south of France had been long-winded and tiring , with delays at either end . |
| 16 | Through the Societé Franco-Iranienne pour l'Enrichissement de l'Uranium , Iran held a 10 per cent share in Eurodif , whose uranium enrichment plant at Tricastin in the south of France had been partly financed through Iranian loans extended before the 1979 revolution to the French Atomic Energy Commissariat ( CEA ) . |
| 17 | The visit to France had been preceded in January by a brief stopover in the United Kingdom en route to the UN Security Council summit [ see p. 38744 ] . |
| 18 | President François Mitterrand of France had been on board the yacht two days previously during a private visit . |
| 19 | Britain would either be overwhelmed as France had been or would seek a compromise with Hitler . |
| 20 | Popping over the border into France had been Peter 's favourite excuse to account for his absences from the shop ever since she 'd known him . |