Example sentences of "which had be [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.

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1 If he did nothing more he would still retain his fee simple , but he would have deprived himself of the right to present possession and enjoyment of the land ; his estate would become a future estate , which would again become a present estate , an ‘ estate in possession ’ , only when the smaller estate , the ‘ particular estate ’ which had been carved out of it , came to an end .
2 They waded through the all-encroaching dust in a series of huge , dark-pillared halls which had been carved out of the solid rock .
3 The most exciting was the white water rapids and jets of water which had been created out of doors .
4 He stooped to pick up the wrong key , which had been jerked out of the lock and out of her hand when she started away .
5 She stood fingering the tresses of the willow , branches of which wept over the upturned hull of a boat , which had been dug out of the peat bog to the north of the island and was permanently on display .
6 They waved goodbye at the door and got into the Jaguar well pleased at the chunk which had been taken out of the Guinness Mahon share mountain .
7 It was a particular , exact colour ; Musgrave had seen it only once before , in a special department of the Bank of England where they incinerated notes which had been taken out of circulation .
8 Moreover , they undoubtedly claimed the disafforestment of districts which had been put out of the forest during the reign of Stephen , and subsequently reclaimed by Henry II .
9 The barons complained that Henry III had arbitrarily re-afforested woods and lands which had been put out of the forest by the perambulations of 1225 ; that he claimed the wardship of heirs to assarts made within the forest , to the detriment of the overlords in whose lands such assarts had been made ; and that he made frequent grants of the right of free warren in disafforested areas , thereby restricting the free rights of hunting which ought to have been enjoyed by landowners in such districts .
10 The royal demesne vills , fields and woods in Sherwood Forest , for example , which had been put out of the forest by the perambulation of 1300 , were now ‘ entirely put back into the forests by the said King Edward ’ .
11 He soon turned his attention to the districts which had been put out of the forest earlier in the reign .
12 The Forest law still applied in some measure , however , to the purlieus , the outlying districts which had been put out of the forest during the fourteenth century — although in some parts of the country the authority of the Forest officers was disputed there .
13 In the short run he wished to rally moderate Indian opinion , which had been put out of countenance by its non-inclusion in the Simon Commission , set up to review the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms in 1927 ; in the long term he wished to save India for the Commonwealth .
14 But a Welsh Water official gave an assurance that supplies were safe , and he said extra pumps were being brought in to take over from giant pumps which had been put out of action by an electrical failure during the floods .
15 Members of those groups which had been left out of broadcasting altogether felt aggrieved and often campaigned vigorously for recognition .
16 Later that day , in the early afternoon , Matey was instructing McAllister in how to knit — something which had been left out of her previous education .
17 The Collector sat on an oak throne which had been chipped out of the mud rampart for fuel , but had not yet been used , though it had lost one of its front legs .
18 The whole area was littered with fragments of mortar which had been chipped out of the wall by workmen getting it ready for re-pointing .
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