Example sentences of "that had [been] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard the incredulity in his voice and it fuelled the small truth that had been niggling at her , unacknowledged , all day . |
| 2 | Minton explained that he had recognised him from a self-portrait that had been exhibited at the AIA Gallery in London . |
| 3 | The medical report books , as Queen Victoria 's reign approached its end , bear eloquent witness to the progress that had been made at the workhouse since those days when the deaths of the fifteen-year-old Samuel B. , and the Infant Bastard child of Susan C. had been recorded in the cold official language of the time . |
| 4 | Whether the production work sharing is something that is still to be decided er at the start of that phase but on the equipment , we were er originally entitled to thirty three percent of the common equipment er when we last gave evidence to the committee the U K work share for equipment stood at some thirty six percent of those that had been selected at that time . |
| 5 | That and the fact that she had managed to stir all those self-doubts that had been hovering at the back of her mind . |
| 6 | Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth . |
| 7 | erm I do n't know anything about the publicity people , but I thought that had been decided at the , is that right ? |
| 8 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 9 | I had been hurt by the crude insults , deliberate distortions and sheer venom that had been directed at us . |
| 10 | Two cases ( 3.6% ) of early gastric cancer and two cases of small gastric carcinoid tumours ( 3.6% ) were detected in addition to the five carcinoids that had been found at the initial endoscopic screening . |
| 11 | Traffic carried by the new truck waterway thus increased beyond the volume of goods which had been conveyed along the old cul-de-sac Arun Navigation and it was necessary to extend the waterside storage buildings that had been established at Newbridge . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's no weight to isolated acts of self-aggrandizing heroism in a decaying society , ’ said a man who was generally nice , and who bore on his forehead the triangular scar of a marble paperweight that had been thrown at him by his best friend , a Tory , for a sentence like that . |
| 13 | It was through their influence that Goodricke was appointed as minister-resident to Sweden in 1758 ; he had to wait in Copenhagen until 1764 before the Swedish government resumed diplomatic relations with Britain that had been severed at the outset of the Seven Years ' War . |
| 14 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 15 | This letter was written after the Djibouti Conference and notwithstanding the communique that had been issued at the conclusion of that conference . |
| 16 | But there was still a French-speaking population on the peninsula itself ; transferring a population to a new ruler in this way was common enough in Europe , and the only unusual thing about this transfer was that the British promised to let the inhabitants retain their Catholic religion without enforcing the laws restricting the civil rights of Catholics that had been passed at Westminster . |
| 17 | The closure of the Paris office was initiated by a management team that had been installed at Rabbit Software by Safeguard . |
| 18 | As this was higher than the average rate over such a period that had been experienced at any historical time , something had to be done . |