Example sentences of "that had been [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 2 | They had no subsistence plots to fall back on , some tried reviving traditional handicrafts but these could not compete with the manufactured goods that had been made available by the market system . |
| 3 | While hand colouring was fully accepted as a compromise , and in fact supplied work to the legions of miniature painters that had been made redundant by the advent of photography , experiments continued to be made all over the world . |
| 4 | While hand colouring was fully accepted as a compromise , and in fact supplied work to the legions of miniature painters that had been made redundant by the advent of photography , experiments continued to be made all over the world . |
| 5 | Domestically , it was necessary to prevent ‘ sinister interests ’ from dominating the political process — the world that had been made safe for democracy had to be kept safe by democracy . |
| 6 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 7 | Except for a white , Ford van , similar to the van that had been parked near to the Coroner 's Court , nothing caught his suspicions ; he watched the van drive past . |
| 8 | From the book he 'd just put down he knew that vast tracts of virgin tropical forest covered those mountainsides and large areas of the lowlands too ; in the book there w.ere sepia-tinted photographs of primitive tribesmen who still hunted with stone-tipped arrows and poison darts in those same forests that also teemed with elephant herds , tiger , buffalo , black bears and countless other rare species of animal life that had been left undisturbed by the march of civilization . |
| 9 | Of course the ‘ big three ’ are only the tip of the iceberg — there are dozens more brilliant routes at the Roaches , including one classic of a style that had been left unrepresented by our day out . |
| 10 | She was thinking of the book that had been left open on the bedcover when she first visited ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 11 | Claws braced on the wall beneath it , the thing strained upwards , rolling its dripping head in agony — and something that had been lying tight beneath it on the pavement slid from under its ravaged body and into the basement . |