Example sentences of "of [noun prp] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 2 | By 1341 the Forest of Dean had been diminished by a quarter , and the warden 's farm was reduced from £160 to £120 . |
| 3 | The mile of shining water between him and the Forest of Dean had been devoid of a single ripple . |
| 4 | Six of his retainers were put to death at York on the day of his own execution , together with another eleven rebels , including Roger Clifford and John Mowbray , whose claim to the lordship of Gower had been set aside by the king in 1319 . |
| 5 | Attempts by the CP to identify the ILP with the policies of MacDonald had been particularly annoying . |
| 6 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 7 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 8 | Within a few years four species of Plasmodium had been recognized , responsible for clinically distinct variants of malaria . |
| 9 | The foresters gave evidence that two townsmen of Colchester had been seen hunting in the forest , but had evaded attachment . |
| 10 | Most of the beeches that had been a feature of Woodbrook had been felled . |
| 11 | Saying that Germany as a whole has not yet bottomed out of recession and that recovery could come in 1994 at the earliest , the management board chairman of IBM Deutschland GmbH said that the government 's solidarity pact to help recovery in the depressed east of Germany had been over-valued — ‘ The pact received praise I do n't think it deserved ’ Hans-Olaf Henkel said . |
| 12 | On May 31 the EPLF vice-chairman Tamirat Laynie told relief officials at a meeting in Addis Ababa that priority would be given to relief operations : the port of Assab had been reopened by agreement with the EPLF and all relief agencies should within a week submit details of their future projects , he said . |
| 13 | The racial mixture was soon to be sharpened , as the mid-century railway boom got under way , by new waves of immigrants from Ireland , the Forest of Dean , Herefordshire , and Somerset , but already the social , political , and religious pattern of the new South Wales and the eastern valleys of Monmouthshire had been firmly set for another century . |
| 14 | By this stage , Field Marshal Lord Alexander of Tunis had been dragooned by Churchill to become Minister of Defence and , in effect , ‘ overlord ’ of the Admiralty , War Office and Air Ministry . |
| 15 | I can certainly agree with my hon. Friend — that incident was most regrettable , particularly in light of the fact that the human rights record of Indonesia had been improving in recent years . |
| 16 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 17 | Apparently , a day or so before my arrival , the children of Navan had been entertained at the centre by a man dressed-up as Mickey Mouse . |
| 18 | The agricultural history of Castile had been a battle between sheep-owners and agriculturists . |
| 19 | It was also admitted that the city of Basra had been heavily bombed since the beginning of the war . |
| 20 | Bruno of Nordgau had been fifty-one years old when he died . |
| 21 | After reports that police reservists in the predominantly Serb town of Benkovac had been disarmed , by order of their Croat superiors , Serbs took to the streets there and in nearby towns . |
| 22 | The Sons of Geronimo had been a wash-out in the end . |
| 23 | She imagined , for instance , that if the inhabitants of Arghuri had been unwilling to venture on to the mountain before the earthquake , any survivors would scarcely be ready to do so now . |
| 24 | The Earl of Hyndford had been sent a box of earth from the ‘ innermost parts of the Cherokee nation ’ . |
| 25 | During the first six months of its existence it recorded 156 combats and seventeen confirmed victories ; most of these at Verdun , where it fought intermittently from May to Though still only partially fledged , the Lafayette 's direct contribution to the Battle of Verdun had been significant ; but this was nothing to what , indirectly , its presence there did for the French cause . |
| 26 | The launch of Onusal had been brought forward due to pressure on the UN from international and national human rights groups and the slow progress in the ongoing peace talks between the government and the FMLN . |
| 27 | The rugged countryside of Ayrshire had been chosen as that most nearly approximating to the anticipated terrain of the regiment 's operations in France . |
| 28 | This area of Dorset had been the home of his family for generations , and he grew up surrounded by aunts , uncles , cousins , and grandparents . |
| 29 | Although he was engaged in a heated discussion with a journalist about the way the tour of Korea had been reported , it is unlikely that he would have said anything that he did not think his employer , the Princess of Wales , wanted known . |
| 30 | By the end of the year he had obtained livery of his spiritualities and temporalities , although a protracted and bitter dispute ensued for over a year with Archbishop Walter Reynolds [ q.v. ] over the sums Hamo claimed as due to him for vacancy , during which the see of Rochester had been in the archbishop 's hands . |