Example sentences of "had be [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Cousfield said that although McLaren had been cleared of the most serious charge , the court always regarded the criminal use of firearms as a serious matter |
| 2 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 3 | In 1985 , four soldiers had been convicted of the murder . |
| 4 | Members of this battalion had been convicted of the November 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and of their housekeeper and her daughter [ see pp. 37037-38 ; 37181 ; 38716 ] . |
| 5 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 6 | The defendant occupiers were held not liable , as they could assume that sweeps would be aware of this particular danger and also because the sweeps had been warned of the danger . |
| 7 | ‘ not for the purpose of repining that they had been deprived of the important blessings of hearing and speech , but to manifest their love and gratitude to God for all those other things He permitted them to enjoy . ’ |
| 8 | The people did so , and the Archbishop of Canterbury then addressed the assembly on the theme ‘ the voice of the people is the voice of God ’ , saying that by the unanimous consent of all the magnates Edward had been deprived of the government of his kingdom because of his inadequacy and his offences against Church and kingdom . |
| 9 | Controlling the bureaucracy poses problems for all presidents and Ford was undeniably correct in arguing that presidents had been deprived of the sort of ‘ clout ’ they once had in matters of national security . |
| 10 | The Collector 's face had assumed an alert expression , for the Padre was now addressing the godparents ; but his still wandering mind was harrowed by the thought of the gentle , pious Mr Bradley of the Post Office department who , only the day before , had been deprived of the evening of his life , and the afternoon as well , come to that . |
| 11 | He told her he had been thinking of the text he had just learnt , ‘ Prepare to meet thy God , ’ and perhaps he might die tonight , and he did not know if he was ready , if his sins were all forgiven … |
| 12 | She had been thinking of the three men downstairs , though perhaps one could hardly count John as being in the running . |
| 13 | Bevin remembered the mistakes of the years after 1918 when , he felt , the returning soldiers had been cheated of the social and economic reforms they had a right to expect . |
| 14 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 15 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 16 | No warning , of course , had been given of the shelling from the ‘ Big Berthas ’ and the public feared that an advance on Paris would soon follow . |
| 17 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 18 | United States Secretary of State James Baker had been notified of the appointment while in Moscow on March 14-16 for talks with Gorbachev and Bessmertnykh , and it had been formally approved by the US administration on March 18 . |
| 19 | He had known of the death of Oleg Demyonov , he had been told of the Soviet retaliation , he had been informed of the visit by the Consul to Lefortovo gaol . |
| 20 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 21 | They confirmed Leon Kennedy had been informed of the Will . |
| 22 | The Chinese Foreign Ministry , which had been informed of the change only two hours before Baker 's announcement , issued a guarded rebuke of the move on July 19 . |
| 23 | The six member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) had been informed of the US decision 12 hours before Baker 's announcement . |
| 24 | On the day of the arrest Spanish Interior Minister José Luis Corcuera , who was visiting Paris , had been informed of the operation . |
| 25 | Police yesterday confirmed that the factory inspectorate had been informed of the incident . |
| 26 | When he published Parachute Padre , Fraser McLuskey mentioned the fact that to that day no trace had been found of the missing plane . |
| 27 | The message read that she had been in the hotel that night ; that she had met David ; that a tape had been taken of the conversation ; that if he thought he could arrest her brother and charge him with murder , he should now try ; that , if he thought he could intern her whilst completely innocent , he should now try ; that several persons had listened to the conversation in the hotel that night and that one was an Ulster MP . |
| 28 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 29 | He had been accused of the murder in 1976 of a tobacco industrialist and a police inspector . |
| 30 | This act , as noted above , had been foretold of the Messiah by the prophet Zechariah . |