Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [been] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 2 | Angry though the prince was about this , he was still trying to repair the damage which had been done to Russo-Bulgarian relations when Roumelian irredentists took the game out of his hands . |
| 3 | Those authorities show that , in approaching the language of the Act of 1986 , one must pay particular attention to the purposes and policies of its own provisions and be wary of simply carrying over uncritically meanings which had been given to similar words in the earlier Act . |
| 4 | It was suggested that the League should concentrate on recreational and educational activities and that the age limit , which had been raised to 25 in 1926 , should be progressively reduced to 11 by 1939 . |
| 5 | Still other male mice spent a single four-hour period inhaling nitrous oxide before being put with females ( none of which had been exposed to hazardous chemicals ) . |
| 6 | A vertical thread on the chart showed the actual number of vehicles which had been completed to that stage at a given time . |
| 7 | Although I had respect for Harry Thubron and Frank Lisle , the message of Basic Design was in , many ways much less important to schools of general education than the work which had been developed to such a pitch of excellence by Basil . |
| 8 | Schemes which had been confined to industrial workers before the war were typically extended to include the self-employed , farm workers and domestic servants . |
| 9 | The power of the platform 's weapons and the threat they posed was enough to give anyone pause for thought , but now they appeared somehow more lethal because they were unseen — concealed behind gunports which had been engineered to such fine tolerances that Rostov could detect no hint of them anywhere on the curved metal skin . |
| 10 | In 1829 and 1830 the river Ray , which had been subjected to massive engineering works in order to drain the newly enclosed moor , began to flood the land beyond Otmoor . |
| 11 | I remember that year : Elio Vittorini was living in a house which had been reduced to two walls . ) |
| 12 | The horizon cleared , and the dark outline of an anchored vessel developed into the clear grey shape of one of 51 Port Squadron 's Ramped Craft Logistic ( RCL ) , which had been attached to 52 Port Squadron for the duration of the exercise . |
| 13 | Here they fought bitterly with Jewish forces for control of the Jerusalem area , which had been allocated to neither side under the Partition Plan . |
| 14 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |