Example sentences of "[noun] that had been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the sixth congress , in 1986 , irate delegates rejected a ridiculously optimistic programme that had been drafted in secret by Le Duan , the then secretary-general . |
| 2 | By retaining the other elements of the plan of this block , the main entrance that had been created in 1959 could be maintained as the ‘ front door ’ with the bathroom/WC being reached from the adjacent entrance hall ( Fig 48 ) . |
| 3 | He sang a few bars of it in a lusty baritone that filled the darkness , and oddly enough dispelled some of the tension that had been growing in her . |
| 4 | The jungle birds fell silent in the growing heat , and Jacques Devraux eventually called a halt and distributed flasks of cold tea that had been carried in satchels by the Moi bearers . |
| 5 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 6 | It comes from RHM Research and it shows how the company rescued valuable 16th and 17th century books that had been waterlogged in a flood at Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire . |
| 7 | Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks . |
| 8 | Here in the huge cathedral I was put in mind of all the oppression that had been put in motion with the words , ‘ You are all God 's children . ’ |
| 9 | Many of the shapes that had been developed in the Early Minoan nevertheless continued in use , especially the one-handled cup and the jar with a short spout on its shoulder , bridged by the rim . |
| 10 | This role may have been rather a disappointment to both sides , as General Gallagher said when he got back from Hanoi , although by opposing the clearance of wartime US mines that had been laid in Haiphong harbour , thus preventing an early return of French troopships , Gallagher seems to have come down rather heavily on the Vietminh side . |
| 11 | In 1949 , at the height of the Cold War , almost exactly ten years after the events themselves , the storm that had been brewing in Aragon 's mind since 1940 finally-burst , with the publication of Les Communistes . |
| 12 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
| 13 | Secondly , in order to maximize the use of scarce capital resources , industries were selected that could utilize the backlog of technological change that had been developed in the Western economies . |
| 14 | At an open air market , my daughter bought a jumper that had been reduced in price . |
| 15 | Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog . |
| 16 | For the Victoria and Albert exhibition , ‘ The Destruction of the Country House ’ , Peter Reid compiled a list of more than 1,200 houses that had been demolished in the preceding century . |
| 17 | In 1949 , he had become a Jordanian citizen and in 1954 secured some family money that had been locked in Jaffa bank accounts , making him ‘ not a rich man , but living ’ . |
| 18 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 19 | It pointed to the progress that had been made in Mexico , the Philippines and Costa Rica . |
| 20 | The regiment 's uniforms had orange facings that had been chosen in honour of King William III . |
| 21 | Our doctors were delighted for they knew they would soon need expert surgical help , but secretly they enjoyed showing the ‘ greats ’ who had little rooms adjoining each other on that top floor , the good work that had been done in ‘ the acute exanthemata . ’ |
| 22 | The Jones collaboration in part grew out of such a quest , though there were aspects of their work that had been anticipated in India long before , unrecorded and so unknown to them . |
| 23 | Further details were published by the Egyptian press on March 10 of an alleged Islamic fundamentalist plot that had been uncovered in February . |
| 24 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
| 25 | Late in 1991 they were completed and returned to Rochester and around the same time the Merlin 266 engine that had been rebuilt in the USA came home and was fitted to the airframe . |
| 26 | While Luce added a liberal amount of sugar and cream to her coffee a question that had been submerged in her mind suddenly resurfaced , and she queried , ‘ How did you know where I was staying ? ’ |
| 27 | On a hundred occasions I have idled similarly in a deserted croft in the Highlands of Scotland and wondered about the lives that had been lived in it . |
| 28 | I 'd stamp up and down as I walked along , and up would pop the balls that had been buried in the sand . |
| 29 | Despite attempts to glamorise those who died fulfilling their ‘ internationalist duty ’ in Afghanistan , there were many letters in the Soviet press complaining of the one-sided treatment of the war that had been provided in the Soviet media and of the failure to make proper provision for the wounded on their return to the USSR . |
| 30 | On the shore in Yorkshire ( Feare , 1970a ) , those dog-whelks that had been checked in growth by winter cold in year 1 grew disproportionately faster in year 2 . |