Example sentences of "that [vb past] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only nineteen MPs were heirs to peerages and of these seven were from families that had been Liberal before 1886 and another five were new creations since then ; thirty-eight MPs were related to peers by blood and another forty by marriage . |
| 2 | When applicable , these two sources of law provided shippers with benefits that had been unavailable under the Harter Act . |
| 3 | When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair . |
| 4 | The second defendant also drove negligently and collided with the vehicles that had been involved in the first accident , killing the plaintiff . |
| 5 | And further , he said that it was his determination to see me again , to persuade me to live with him , that had streng-thened in him the desire to go on living , a desire that had been weak since the death of Montaine . |
| 6 | The danger of internal dispute was recognised and the KPR strove to achieve coalescence of all elements whether right or left , that had been opposed to the Japanese . |
| 7 | But all addressed the themes that had been crucial in other traditions . |
| 8 | They reflected a concept that had been current for a number of years , that experiments in planning free zones ought to be devised ( Banham et al . , |
| 9 | Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years . |
| 10 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 11 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 12 | There were no signs anywhere of Wolski 's background , of the fact that he spoke Polish or had once been Jewish , or of the God that had been present at his birth but on whom he had turned his back before the godlessness in a death camp called Sobibor . |
| 13 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 14 | But two of the mediating factors that had been present in his triumphant Pennies From Heaven and Singing Detective had gone : no independent director or challenging producer . |
| 15 | In one of his experiments , lie detectors were connected to two house plants that had been present in a room at the time of a murder . |
| 16 | He spelt out a clear conception of force as the cause of acceleration rather than motion , a conception that had been present in a somewhat confused way in the writings of Galileo and Kepler . |
| 17 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 18 | And I remembered too the guns they 'd shown me , with the barrels roughly brazed to patch holes that had been blasted-out by home-made bullets too misshapen to find a smooth passage through when the gun was fired . |
| 19 | On that second and final dinner of the conference — most guests were expected to disperse after lunch the following day — the company had lost much of the reserve that had been noticeable throughout the previous days . |
| 20 | De Gaulle 's foreign policy had restored a level of national self-respect and consensus that had been absent since the First World War . |
| 21 | In 1963 , Butler and Stokes began a series of surveys which set a new pattern , and a new standard , for the study of voting behaviour in Britain : their sample was large , nation-wide , and was interviewed several times between 1963 and 1970 ; and the authors were concerned to apply a rigour that had been absent from most of the earlier single constituency studies of electoral choice . |
| 22 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
| 23 | Generally , the products were made of plane/sycamore wood that had been seasoned for about 6 months . |
| 24 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
| 25 | Anxious that Lally should not return to find her naked , she huddled into a blue satin kimono that had been one of Aunt Tossie 's many over-grand presents . |
| 26 | After all , that had been one of the major problems in their marriage . |
| 27 | Probably that had been one of the things which Aunt Ruth , who had little dress sense , so disliked about her . |
| 28 | Constance frequently reiterated that she would never buy anything that had belonged to somebody else , that meant something to them , that had been warm against their skin or over the fireplace : only brand-new articles , the stuff of commerce in transit between factory and store , the owners of which already had more money than was good for them and were themselves no better than they should be . |
| 29 | Even four successive nights seemed an almost too generous slice of happiness , and on that fourth night , with the waning moonlight glittering on the sea and the crickets noisy in the hayfield on the other side of the wall , she gazed sadly up at him and asked the question that had been uppermost in their minds for some time . |
| 30 | But there was humour in her tone , and a sparkle in her lovely eyes , and the mouth that had been unhappy for so long now curved in a smile . |