Example sentences of "that had be [verb] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was smarting from the clerical opposition that had been marshaled against his nonsectarian charter for Cornell University . |
| 2 | All the points of her body that had been pressed against him were suddenly touched with fingers of ice . |
| 3 | He also offered in 1014 to forgive all the things that had been done against him , providing that the English returned to their allegiance without treachery . |
| 4 | Open opposition is strongly implied by his offer in 1014 to forgive all the things that had been said against him . |
| 5 | Older siblings living in mainland Scotland were not permitted to see or communicate with their younger brothers and sisters , even though they were in no way involved or implicated in the allegations that had been made against the parents . |
| 6 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 7 | He moved uncomfortably and his chair scraped against the dusty edge of the grate , dislodging a small carved piece of stone that had been propped against the hearth . |
| 8 | The newly restored Japanese Emperor opened the line , and thereby scotched the bitter religious opposition that had been aroused against the building of railways . |
| 9 | Mr Starr said that had been weighed against other needs apparent in the case . |
| 10 | In Berlin , in 1940 , Joyce looked back on these incidents and tried to explain the cause of the prosecutions for assault that had been brought against him . |