Example sentences of "ireland had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police said that their two accomplices arrested in Ireland had been carrying several addresses of safe houses in France . |
| 2 | Appeasement did not work , because nothing short of a united Ireland had been their ‘ real ’ ambition from the start . |
| 3 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 4 | ( The six-county state of Northern Ireland had been set up under the Government of Ireland Act , 1920 ) . |
| 5 | F. W. H. Christie , an English barrister , testified that an order to arrest the strike leaders throughout Northern Ireland had been countermanded , but that the new instructions did not reach the troops who were to make the arrests in the Rathcoole district and a small section of Belfast . |
| 6 | She made it her rule that Belfast , the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army , casual atrocities never crossed her lips , not after his last trip away , because the man who had come back to her from Northern Ireland had been frightened of his own shadow . |
| 7 | Ireland had been in rebellion for eight years . |
| 8 | Ireland had been slipping out of Britain 's grasp — Sinn Fein had almost swept the board in the local elections , they had set up their own provisional government in Dublin and in some areas of the country theirs was the only authority recognised — and , on top of all that , in September alone there had been over two thousand IRA arms raids . |
| 9 | Grainne thought it was strange that she had never before realised how many Kings of Ireland had been exiled and had later returned . |
| 10 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 11 | Speaking in the wake of an 86-hour bombing blitz which is expected to run to almost £30m — nearly a third of the total compensation bill for the past 12 months — he conceded the people of Northern Ireland had been through ‘ a harsh time ’ . |