Example sentences of "other [noun pl] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | East German companies , he said , suffering the adverse effects of German economic union , had defaulted on import contracts worth 230 million roubles for vehicles , machinery , chemical products and raw materials ; other contracts had been left uncompleted and tourism agreements unfulfilled . |
| 2 | He stated that since April 25 officers and 600 other ranks had been dismissed on charges of indiscipline and involvement in criminal activities . |
| 3 | Other attempts had been no more successful in the interim . |
| 4 | UNITA complained that the government amnesty fell outside the legal framework of the agreement and some released prisoners who had been held by UNITA alleged that other prisoners had been forced to remain in Jamba , UNITA 's headquarters in southeastern Angola . |
| 5 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 6 | Many other Jews had been enslaved or had run away . |
| 7 | Premium rises had been achieved in some areas , but other sectors had been very competitive . |
| 8 | Following Bennett 's withdrawal a number of other candidates had been unsuccessfully approached until Yeutter was offered the post on Jan. 3 . |
| 9 | I was no closer to knowing the selection procedure , as my conversations about this with the other recruits had been based on mere speculation and gossip . |
| 10 | Whereas nuclear weaponry had effectively only been in the hands of the U.S.A. , the development of such weapons by other nations had been increasing , so at a meeting , in December 1962 , at Nassau , Prime minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy , hammered out an agreement whereby Britain abandoned its plans for ‘ Skybolt ’ in return for the U.S.A. ‘ Polaris ’ missile for use by British nuclear submarines . |
| 11 | All the other cars had been driven away . |
| 12 | It is doubtful that the Children 's Department could have made the series anyway , as one of Sydney Newman 's other shake-ups had been to wind down this Department , dispersing much of its talent throughout the rest of the Drama Group . |
| 13 | After all , from the very first weeks after the first seizure of power by a Communist Party back in November 1917 , special rations , housing and other privileges had been the order of the day . |
| 14 | The price of competitive development was overbuilding , which in other countries had been controlled by government regulation . |
| 15 | All the other elements had been erm liquified in , in , during the Victorian period . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As in America , boxing overwhelmingly dominated the attentions of blacks simply because it was the sport in which other blacks had been allowed to compete and they had done so with extremely conspicuous success . |
| 18 | I had not realised that other sites had been considered , including Merthyr . |
| 19 | Last night a department spokesman said the charities ‘ appeared to be right ’ in their claims although some other beds had been temporarily provided . |
| 20 | Themes seen in other classes had been even more complicated and had obviously involved an enormous amount of work . |
| 21 | By the eighteenth century these four or five classes had grown to twelve : the and classes had all been divided into two , for example , and other classes had been added . |
| 22 | The justices either failed to make any determination or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 23 | ‘ The justices however failed to make any determination , or failed to make any finding or state any reasons for finding as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 24 | The Council became a genuinely learning process , and once the name of the game had been defined as aggiornamento , once ecumenical understanding and co-operation with other Christians had been moved from the presupposition of ‘ dangerous ’ to that of ‘ Christian ’ and ‘ highly desirable ’ , there developed for a while a new logic which could not easily be denied . |
| 25 | The decision was made after a panel of judges in the islands concluded that cancer and other illnesses had been caused by the US tests . |
| 26 | The party 's previous secretary-general , Abdel Rahman Qasemlu and two other officials had been assassinated in July 1989 in Vienna [ see p. 36833 ] . |
| 27 | Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important medieval borough ; other places had been small market centres whose burgesses had obtained some measure of independence from their manorial lords . |
| 28 | As of February 1991 it was only being fitted to the 4,000 MW Drax station in Yorkshire , although applications to fit FGD equipment to two other stations had been presented by PowerGen . |
| 29 | Havel , who had been elected in December 1989 to serve in an interim capacity [ see p. 37107 ] , was the sole candidate ; a number of other individuals had been disqualified , not having been nominated by parliamentary deputies , while Stefan Kvietik , nominated by the Slovak National Party , had withdrawn . |
| 30 | These steps failed , however , to increase confidence , and on Sept. 13 it was announced that the central rate for the lira within the framework of the ERM had been reduced by 3.5 per cent and that those for the currencies of the other participants had been increased by 3.5 per cent , representing an effective 7 per cent devaluation of the lira . |