Example sentences of "that had been [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 2 | Mark states that the next morning Jesus and his disciples walked passed the fig tree that had been cursed the previous day . |
| 3 | The representatives of nations and organizations that had been preserving a cautious neutrality now swelled the flock , gabbling about friendly relations and mutual benefit . |
| 4 | The telephone was then borrowed to order those samples that had been requested the previous night . |
| 5 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 6 | The next day the Iranian military unit that had been guarding the American embassy was ordered to return to its barracks . |
| 7 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 8 | There had been only one obvious course of action — and that had been to raise the necessary sums by selling the family estate . |