Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 2 | The fundamental relationship upon which the economic , social , and political structure of the Empire had been based was to be dismantled . |
| 3 | One option that had been canvassed was for staffing ratios and care standards merely to be maintained rather than improved as the hospitals declined . |
| 4 | The last time a net surplus in global lending had been recorded was in 1983 , when rising levels of bank interest and a strong dollar had left many commodity-dependent countries unable to service their existing obligations . |
| 5 | Here lay Mount Edgcombe House , which the Spanish Admiral , the Duke of Medina-Sidonia , had been promised was to be his . |
| 6 | It is nowhere stated that the ground which had been occupied was to be abandoned , but that was the result . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the opening was dogged by controversy , because the track in which the route had been laid was of a type having a 1¼″ groove instead of the normal 1″ groove . |
| 8 | There were ornaments worth many guineas and pictures , however weird they seemed to her , which she had been told were of great artistic merit . |