Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experimental subjects acquired the CR only slowly when trained in context A , the context in which the light had been presented during the first stage of habituation training . |
| 2 | The cost of a range of goods and services remained unchanged , however , this list including medical supplies , petrol and electricity , and also coffee and vodka ( the controversial decision not to raise the vodka price was justified in terms of preventing an upsurge in illegal distillation , as had happened when the price had been raised during the anti-alcohol campaign started in 1985 — see p. 35844 ) . |
| 3 | According to EPS figures released on May 28 , a total of 12,627 recontras and 9,278 recompas had been demobilized during the first two phases and 22,197 infantry weapons and 215 support weapons had been currently destroyed . |
| 4 | This had been built during the American War when he toured England to rally support among Radical and Nonconformist circles for Lincoln 's armies . |
| 5 | Nearly 14 tonnes of gold deposited in the United Kingdom had been sold under a February 1967 Soviet-UK agreement to pay compensation to UK citizens for property which had been lost during the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states [ see p. 21882 ] . |
| 6 | Some of the poems had been written during the 1860s , others were of more recent date , but the overall impression — which so disturbed contemporary readers — of austerity , metrical irregularity and verbal roughness , reminiscent of an oral tradition , can now be seen , in the words of another poet , David Wright , ‘ as a beginning of the end of Victorian poetry ’ . |
| 7 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 8 | Relations between Forsyth and the Secretary of State for Scotland , Malcolm Rifkind , had been strained during the former 's 14 months in office , and a number of senior party officials had resigned . |
| 9 | Various emergency measures had been imposed during the 1989-90 disturbances in Kosovo by Serbia 's President Slobodan Milosevic . |
| 10 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 11 | Millions of men had been butchered during the first World War , and in post-war years , the ratio of births , as I understand it , was four to one in favour of baby girls . |
| 12 | Intimation had been received during the previous year that they were considering paying over to the Official Trustee of Charitable Funds the sum of £12,000 , the interest on which would be sufficient to maintain their endowment of £300 . |
| 13 | Over half of their army had been destroyed during the initial rush towards the gate . |
| 14 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |
| 15 | Yet in 1988 , the management consortium sold the company to Volvo of Sweden for £15 million claiming that the business had been restructured during the previous two years , but that the ‘ key to success in this business is to be a world player ’ . |
| 16 | A total of 543 Palestinian " collaborators " and 103 Israelis had been killed during the same period . |
| 17 | post-war instructions from Moscow ( the Comintern had been dissolved in 1943 ) were to maintain the policy of cooperation with democratic forces which had been implemented during the latter stages of the war . |
| 18 | William Cecil blamed the devastating plague of 1563 on the overcrowding of the central area and ordered that each house which had been subdivided during the previous year should be restored to occupation by a single family only and that recently-arrived lodgers should be removed , but such measures did not have a lasting effect . |
| 19 | The next three sessions were devoted to working on material in various ways , transcribing short sections of interviews , producing illustrations , writing factual accounts of events and poems based on what had been gleaned during the preceding weeks . |
| 20 | On Aug. 12 , however , the chairman of the League for the Defence of Human Rights said that more than 300 people had died and over 8,000 had been arrested during the recent disturbances . ) |
| 21 | Similarly , the letters published by the Women 's Cooperative Guild ( WCG ) in 1915 regarding the maternity experiences of 160 of their members whose husbands earned between 24 and 40 / a week and who mostly had been married during the 1890s , showed that women with large families bitterly regretted it , chiefly because of the hard labour necessary to sustain a large family . |
| 22 | On a recent visit to Warsaw I found that many of the street names had been changed during the past year . |
| 23 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 24 | In the whole country only two lorries had been hijacked during the latter part of May and neither was on Hatton 's regular route . |
| 25 | The railway line between the Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) and Beckenham , which had been closed during the 1914–18 war , was electrified and reopened in 1929 . |
| 26 | The bill , put forward on de Klerk 's initiative and covering the crimes of members of the security forces and the police as well as political prisoners , had been described during the parliamentary debate as a " charter for crooks , criminals and assassins " . |
| 27 | This means that a premium paid during a tax year is treated as if it had been paid during the previous tax year ; or the tax year before that , if there were no relevant earnings in the previous year . |
| 28 | In 1926 Fenner Brockway , who had been imprisoned during the First World War , wrote in a newspaper article : ‘ The object of penal reformers should not be to reform the prison system but to abolish it ’ ( Priestley 1988 : 175 ) . |
| 29 | The circulation of native-language newspapers , for instance , was increasing more rapidly than that of Russian-language newspapers in Central Asia ; the local languages were being purged of the Russian loan words that had been imported during the 1930s and 1940s ; and the indigenous intelligentsia was showing little sign of relinquishing its national self-consciousness . |
| 30 | The colony had been devastated during the Japanese occupation . |