Example sentences of "america had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goya 's life , on the other hand , coincides with the decline and ultimate collapse of the Empire ; Spanish rule in America had been overthrown by the time of his death in 1828 . |
| 2 | Leee Childers : ‘ The rest of the world was handled by Tony DeFries pretty much the way America had been handled . |
| 3 | America had been amazed for some months by stories of U.S. prisoners of war in Korea who had ‘ gone over to Communism ’ . |
| 4 | So cold was the Cold War that America had been boycotting the import even of Soviet crab meat , let alone a live and wily Soviet leader . |
| 5 | But it was not this group , as Allen knew , with which America had been dealing . |
| 6 | But then he embarked on his main thesis , which was that the entire Western intelligence system in Britain , France , Germany and America had been deeply penetrated by the KGB and systematically manipulated with clever disinformation put out by Moscow . |
| 7 | In the spring of 1968 there was much rethinking within the CRA [ Civil Rights Association ] leadership ; the tactics of Martin Luther King in America had been absorbed inasmuch that it was felt by some that only public marches could draw wide attention to what we were trying to achieve by normal democratic means . |
| 8 | The pendulum has swung on both sides of the Atlantic , and if the sexual habits of urban America had been transformed in the 1960s by the so-called sexual revolution , then the small-town traditions of middle America found their own political voice a decade later , and with it a judicial response from the highest court in the land . |
| 9 | Journalist Meredith Oakley , of the Arkansas Gazette in the Clintons ' home state , said : ‘ If America had been ready for a female President she would have run herself . |
| 10 | Charles II 's expansion into North America had been a process of expansion by proprietors , but this was almost all dismantled in the following generation . |
| 11 | The French approach to North America had been rather different ; they had penetrated to the interior by the two great river systems , the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi , and began developing them as a single communications route linked by the Great Lakes and running through the hinterland west and north of the British settlements . |
| 12 | With its assertion of militarism , voluntarism and adventurism , it stands for everything that orthodox Marxists in Latin America had been arguing against for years . |
| 13 | America had been an escape , she thought , or perhaps a search , a search for identity , a reason for being Sara Monroe , not very clever , not as pretty or as talented as Jenny . |