Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [be] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ring had taken itself back to where it rightfully belonged , and Cassie hoped that when Johnny next visited the cottage , he would find it there and understand how it had come to be so . |
| 2 | He felt a childish satisfaction in having that advantage on one who had claimed to be so well informed on such matters . |
| 3 | Once again , even if the main points at issue had been side-stepped , the two countries were at peace , and had agreed to be so for a whole generation . |
| 4 | She was about to tell him that was his own stupid fault and that she was n't here to wait on him — particularly since he had proved to be so inhospitable . |
| 5 | Among the Cheka people high intellectual standards combined with education and culture had not assumed the outward expression which I had found to be so hateful among the former Russian intellectuals … . |
| 6 | They finished packing and left the farmhouse , where they had hoped to be so happy . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |