Example sentences of "that had [adv] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Chicago 's Exhibitors Film Exchange ‘ the Meaning of the Movies ’ was that the benefits and aspiration that had previously been offered by ‘ a dozen agencies ’ were now combined in one form for the motion picture was taking over from painting , sculpture , travel , history and so on . |
| 2 | One consequence of this boom was the large scale corporate invasion of the estate agency sector , a sector that had previously been dominated by mediumD and smallD sized firms . |
| 3 | Central to this was a process of taking control of the workplace away from the operatives and placing it in the hands of management by providing the latter with the technical information that had formerly been monopolized by the former . |
| 4 | Of particular importance from the Soviet point of view , states of this kind were held to be ‘ objectively anti-imperialist ’ in that they generally opposed the substantial control over their domestic affairs that had traditionally been exercised by the major capitalist powers . |
| 5 | Carson ( 1971 ) identified the achievement that had already been made by the mechanics approach and predicted that more would follow , but that because most erosional processes are weathering-limited to varying degrees , therefore on a geological time-scale erosion mechanics must be closely linked with the mechanics and chemistry of rock breakdown . |
| 6 | The cardinals began to think of themselves as the hinges on which the universal Church turned , a comparison that had already been made by Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) and by Cardinal Deusdedit in the 1080s . |
| 7 | A decision was taken to use bus technology in producing a body to be mounted on the trucks that had already been designed by the Department and were operating successfully . |
| 8 | Mr Gandhi 's murder came in the middle of a general-election campaign that had already been marred by more killing , intimidation and vote-grabbing than India had seen in any of its nine previous elections . |
| 9 | The birds of a second group were put alone in a cage with a full milk container that had already been opened by the experimenters . |
| 10 | Definitely , we do n't if we were crossing an area that had n't been secured by any other officer , so we were particularly concerned that we should get out of any possible danger area . |
| 11 | On the line the only affair that had n't been ruined by his previous , all-consuming life in the SAS , or destroyed by his own turbulent and possessive nature . |
| 12 | When the Japanese returned to investing in the 1960s , they first concentrated on Asian markets that had largely been ignored by earlier investors . |
| 13 | The other 24 films were distractors , the film from each pair that had not been seen by the subject before . |
| 14 | But situations were also encountered that had not been foreseen by the Instruction Book . |
| 15 | If he had n't been so puffed up with conceit , the buffalo that had not been noticed by the Moi might now be basking contentedly in the shallows of the river . |
| 16 | But things went Karpov 's way when he found a move that had clearly been overlooked by Yusupov 's analysts . |
| 17 | In the boot was a large pile of tins of tuna-fish and a harvest wreath that had clearly been designed by Marjorie Quigley . |
| 18 | Sandro Calvani , head of UNDCP 's Bolivian operations , defends his group 's activities , pointing out that his organisation started relief work in an area that had long been shunned by most other international agencies as too dangerous . |
| 19 | At the Theatre Royal , Crawford had a dressing-room , complete with velvet curtains and luxurious couch , that had once been used by Ginger Rogers , when she was starring in a London stage version of the hit Broadway musical Mame . |
| 20 | He could get items that had once been owned by this author or that author , and there was a market for these , particularly for letters . |
| 21 | He did n't believe it up to the moment that he found himself outside a half-house that had once been graced by a classical loggia . |
| 22 | ‘ Tradition has it that St Kentigern founded his cathedral at Glasgow in the late 6th century within a burial ground that had earlier been founded by St Ninian but never used . |
| 23 | He next bestowed on his favourites all those offices that had hitherto been held by the Woodvilles , thus weakening their position and strengthening his own . |
| 24 | Philadelphia stood on the edge of land that had never been occupied by Europeans , and so the Pennsylvanians had to work out their relations with the Indians . |
| 25 | In the process , the ideas that had originally been expounded by Monnet were substantially modified . |