Example sentences of "had be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any surplus votes they had are re-allocated to the candidate who gets the second preference . |
| 2 | Edinburgh , Glasgow , and London ( particularly Imperial College ) universities have all been involved in major research projects in this area , although the major structural problems had been elucidated in 1906 by scientists from the then Geological Survey of Scotland ( Peach and others . |
| 3 | We had been taking into the adult wards men and women suffering from the most serious fevers , encephalitis lethargica , polio-encephalitis , serious poliomyelitis , with two ‘ Iron lung ’ cases in a special isolation ward and unit , tuberculous meningitis , and poliomeningitis were also with us . |
| 4 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 5 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 6 | I have already said that anathema had been pronounced over the Avant-garde from the beginning of the Thirties , and that made it very difficult for the avant-garde artists themselves , as well as for their families . |
| 7 | On Aug. 26 Sampson had begun legal proceedings to secure an early release , arguing that 11 years in exile in France should count towards his sentence , which had been pronounced in 1976 [ see p. 27980 ] . |
| 8 | Investigations had been halted since December 1990 when the Delhi High Court found irregularities in the preliminary charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) . |
| 9 | The third round of talks , in May , had been halted over the same issue [ see p. 38191 ] . |
| 10 | Iliescu also announced that work on unfinished grandiose construction and infrastructural projects had been halted pending an investigation of their economic worth . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , all attacks by the German centre , west of Verdun and at Nancy , had been halted with heavy loss . |
| 12 | Communications were no doubt temporarily dislocated : our jam-packed train had been halted during the night owing to an air raid in the region . |
| 13 | The spring of 1915 thus found the Allies dug in opposite the German Army , which had been halted on the Marne . |
| 14 | The group also reportedly condemned the SPLA 's threat to attack relief flights into Juba , which had been halted on Sept. 7 , because of rebel fire [ see p. 38993 for UN airlift ] . |
| 15 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 16 | An earlier breakthrough by an enemy motor rifle division supported by tanks and artillery had been halted by 6th Armoured Brigade , of which the Royal Scots form a part . |
| 17 | After the Croats , who had been halted around Bleiburg , had been disarmed ( they also included many civilians ) , they were force-marched out of Austria into Yugoslavia . |
| 18 | But although it brought victory to the Black Prince , the battle of Nájera was to be the cause of the renewal of the war which had been halted in 1360 . |
| 19 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 20 | In a statement issued on Feb. 7 , 1990 , however , it said that some $2,000 million had been spent on an operation which had been halted in mid-September for climatic reasons . |
| 21 | The UN programme had been halted in December after the government alleged that UNITA forces were disrupting the convoys . |
| 22 | Another consequence of the re-establishment of the authority of Constantius in Britain could well have been an attack on pagan monuments and practices , which had been tolerated under Magnentius . |
| 23 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 24 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 25 | It was reported that over-ripe tomatoes and some oldish eggs had been tossed at the door of two southern commercial stations , which was a smear tactic we deplored with emphasis . |
| 26 | It had been tossed into a bed of nettles against the wall of the churchyard . |
| 27 | He glanced out at a gang of starlings fighting over some breadcrumbs that had been tossed on the lawn . |
| 28 | A sprig of dā telo had been fixed above the lintel to protect the house from evil , and Kāli left it in place , carefully plastering around it . |
| 29 | Her claim failed because no date had been fixed for the ending of her employment . |
| 30 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |