Example sentences of "[subord] had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercedes explains that the biggest problem in developing the five-speed unit is the necessity to reduce mechanical and hydraulic losses to a lower level than had been achieved previously . |
| 2 | Legislation had been tried before , from the late fourteenth century onwards , but more effort was made to enforce the 1651 Act than had been done in the past . |
| 3 | Under the surface draining or thorough water-draining of the land had to be undertaken on a more planned and workmanlike scale than had been done formerly ; for now the below-surface drains had to take off most of the water and conduct it to the ditches , and had not merely to assist the wasteful system of frequent water-furrows on the surface , as the old bush-drains had done when they were almost the sole method of under-draining . |
| 4 | For instance , the censuses of 1971 and 1981 investigated country of origin more fully than had been done previously to extend knowledge about the immigrant population . |
| 5 | If a business takes on more debt , its calculations can be thrown out by two things : if the interest cost of servicing the debt rises by more than was expected ; and if the cash flow earned by the business falls by more than had been planned for . |
| 6 | And environmental tidiness may cost the Pentagon more than had been planned . |
| 7 | On Jan. 30 the USA announced that it was withdrawing in 1992 17,000 more troops than had been planned , and closing or cutting back 83 more bases . |
| 8 | Yet both women brought a more intense and child-whorish eroticism to the screen than had been seen before , while retaining a suggestion of innocence at the heart of it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Act was welcomed by many old people because it gave them a regular income free from the taint of poor relief ; though many , rightly , criticized it for giving ‘ too little too late in life ’ , that little was more than had been given before . |
| 11 | On average , therefore , the incidence of head lice in the urban child was about three times higher than had been recorded by school medical officers before the war . |
| 12 | By this point the wealth of the local clothiers had in fact been reduced by more than half , though taxation , while extracting huge sums from the community at large , had taken little more than £1,100 , far less than had been withdrawn from the industry by the Springs . |
| 13 | Mohamed Sahnoun , the UN Secretary-General 's special representative , was quoted on Sept. 4 as saying that the famine , in which relief agencies had estimated that 1,500,000 people faced death , was in fact far worse than had been realised . |
| 14 | I just though it was a simple misprint and with one stroke of the pen I changed ‘ otter ’ to ‘ other ’ , thus effecting a rather broader sweep to Party policy than had been intended . |
| 15 | At that time this office was doubtless regarded as less significant than under an adult king , and Fordham was no politician , but proximity to the boy king and his household soon proved more important than had been intended . |
| 16 | The modest resettlement programme in rural areas which aimed to improve the grossly inequitable distribution of land prevailing during the colonial period was less effective than had been hoped , and was cut back by the stabilization measures taken in 1982–84 . |
| 17 | The Data Protection Registrar , in publicising a closing date of May 1986 for the receipt of registrations , had no idea how many data users ought to be registering ; in the event the flow of registrations was far slower than had been hoped , but by the end of 1986 it was clear that the higher guesses were more likely to be right . |
| 18 | Performance itself soon established norms which by 1950 were higher than had been hoped for in 1945 ; and then , as European recovery got underway , the standard became even more precise and , for Britain , more formidable . |
| 19 | The Fleadh ( pronounced Flah ) , which was launched in London 's Finsbury Park in 1990 , and has already spawned two related events in the United States , got off to a shaky start in Scotland last year , with a smaller attendance than had been hoped for and complaints about the shale surface on which it was held . |
| 20 | Congress approved on Oct. 26 a defence budget for fiscal year 1991 of $288,300 million , $16,700 million less than had been authorized for the previous year [ see p. 37409 ] . |
| 21 | It resumed on Aug. 15 for only two hours before being postponed again , amid continuing disputes and a second boycott of the conference by opposition parties because of the presence of more delegates than had been authorized ( 4,288 as opposed to 2,850 ) . |
| 22 | Acidifying droplets can reduce the growth of trees and crops , at concentrations far lower , than had been suspected up to now . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 . |
| 24 | Characteristically , he charged considerably more than had been agreed for the work ; the ewer and basin weighed 570 ounces , substantially more than the requested maximum . |
| 25 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 26 | Franco had been grateful to receive Italian planes in July and August , but he was not happy with the massive despatch of foot-soldiers , partly because Mussolini had the temerity to send more than had been agreed , and partly because the Duce insisted that they were not deployed as part of the Spanish Army , but formed an independent corps , with their own officers . |
| 27 | The expansiveness came to an end in the middle of 1940 , when he demanded better terms for Cotton Town than had been offered : ‘ The first book did well for you ( for me too , I readily admit ) , and since I may soon be called up , and have a wife and child to support , I should like to leave them as well provided for as possible . ’ |
| 28 | Bosnian Muslims said they wanted more territory than had been offered under a proposed peace plan . |
| 29 | In February 1990 , a MAFF study discovered that children and pregnant women were receiving more lead than had been thought , and recommended a level of 10 ug/litre , as applies in the USA . |
| 30 | The wounds suggest that these dinosaurs were much more territorially inclined than had been thought . |