Example sentences of "wales had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the rest of Britain was shivering in one of the most sodden , miserable June months on record , the west coast of Wales had been sizzling through a heatwave . |
| 2 | The year before , she and the Prince of Wales had been sent an unusual gift . |
| 3 | By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited . |
| 4 | The Governor suspected that John 's banking affairs would be in a similar mess and a check showed that under his Chairmanship and by his influence , more than half of the assets of the Bank of New South Wales had been loaned to a small group of businessmen . |
| 5 | For some centuries Wales had been an area where rather independent lords raised private armies to hold the Welsh down , and sometimes turned these armies against the king . |
| 6 | The visit to Wales had been a triumph but Diana had felt overwhelmed by her popularity , the size of the crowds and the proximity of the media . |
| 7 | By 1939 one third of all the houses in England and Wales had been built since 1918 ; and extensive urban land absorption was in evidence particularly in the 1930s . |
| 8 | Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away . |
| 9 | In 1984 rather more than forty per cent of the total land area of England and Wales had been defined by local planning authorities as being within an area of special control . |
| 10 | There would have been objections if areas of Scotland or Wales had been linked with parts of England for convenience er of this review , but it seems Cornwall once again as a distinct and separate identity , continues to be ignored . |
| 11 | Mr MacKay said inward investment into Wales had been the success story of the Welsh economy throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s . |
| 12 | He said that family income in Wales had been 87pc of that in the IRC in 1976/77 , but had dropped to only 64pc by 1990/91 . |
| 13 | Although sections of electricity line near the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales had been undergrounded following a public outcry , there were no plans to do the same where the route skirted the North York Moors National Park . |