Example sentences of "that had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There were one or two guests that had been invited to both Breasbrough parties . |
| 32 | The nearest thing to a conjuring trick was the new bell-push that had been fitted under the carpet for Mrs Iverson . ’ |
| 33 | Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home . |
| 34 | The printers " picnic that had been arranged for a Saturday at the beginning of August 1914 had to be cancelled because of the outbreak of war . |
| 35 | Gorbachev , speaking at the closing ceremony , acknowledged that there were basic disagreements between the two sides , but thought the meeting had created ‘ opportunities for progress ’ ; Reagan thought that ‘ useful preliminary results ’ had been achieved , and hoped that further progress would be achieved at the meeting that had been arranged for the following year . |
| 36 | The third Duma consisted of people that had been arranged by the Tsar . |
| 37 | Birds that had been reared with siblings were tested in apparatus that allowed them to be given up to six alternatives ( Bateson , 1982a ) . |
| 38 | ( b ) In the middle is the song of a chaffinch that had been reared in complete isolation , unable to hear any sounds at all ; it resembles the normal song , but is a crude version of it . |
| 39 | The blue-tit that had been swinging on a bramble , singing " Heigh , ho , go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss , " stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood . |
| 40 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 41 | The old newspapers that had been placed underneath her crackled at the movement . |
| 42 | For its part , West Germany was unhappy about the restrictions that had been placed upon the economic development of much of its heavy industry by the International Ruhr Authority , an organisation set up by the Allies during their military occupation of Germany : the Schuman Plan offered a way to eliminate the Authority while still satisfying West Germany 's neighbours about its intentions . |
| 43 | The plantation director was standing on an upturned crate that had been placed in position for him beneath the light , and despite the early hour he was already wearing his customary pitch helmet , the sleeves of his bush shirt were rolled high on his brown muscular arms and he was bare-legged in shorts , heavy jungle boots and short thick socks . |
| 44 | The Committee may have been relieved to hear that in one case at another institution , the Inland Revenue had decided that officers who took round , for sale , firewood that had been chopped by the inmates , were exempt from the need for a hawker 's licence . |
| 45 | For Bridgnorth had made me resolve that I would never more go among a people that had been hardened in unprofitableness under an awakening ministry … |
| 46 | Others went their own way , delving farther into the secrets that had been revealed to them , living in the deep woods of the high crags , visited by petitioners who sought aid . |
| 47 | Balb c mice that had been maintained on a gluten free diet for many generations in order to overcome oral tolerance to gliadin , were primed subcutaneously with 0.1 ml of BCG , vaccine . |
| 48 | He was clean-shaven with a face that had been ravaged by acne when younger . |
| 49 | Enraptured by the celluloid screen , we revelled in the romance that had been denied to us , or had been put in cold storage ‘ for the duration , . |
| 50 | The Soviet masses were in the process of acceding to a cultural awareness that had been denied to his father . |
| 51 | Another time he passed a copse of exposed trees that had been battered by the prevailing wind for so long that the trees were permanently bent over . |
| 52 | The second session of Parliament , which began on 9 November , saw an attack on the standing army , the Commons refusing to vote supply for the additional forces that had been raised over the summer , and instead resolving to bring in a bill to reform the militia . |
| 53 | The ICJ declared that it was " not called upon to determine any of the questions " that had been raised by the Libyan submission to the Court , and would therefore not be taking any restraining " provisional measures " , such as had been sought by Libya . |
| 54 | He was smarting from the clerical opposition that had been marshaled against his nonsectarian charter for Cornell University . |
| 55 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 56 | When the headmistress , with some guilt , asked her to take over the school 's unpopular Commonwealth Society she rolled up her sleeves and cleaned out the dusty room that had been hung with torn posters depicting ‘ Tea-picking in Ceylon , ‘ Coffee Growing in Kenya , ’ and ‘ Sheep Farming in Australia . ’ |
| 57 | The body that had been racked with sobbing was now pressing into him and moving in an altogether different rhythm . |
| 58 | He looked through the xerox sheets that had been pressed between them but there was nothing too controversial there , just a Jenner Clinic catalogue and price schedule and a few dates and details . |
| 59 | All the points of her body that had been pressed against him were suddenly touched with fingers of ice . |
| 60 | Was that what the horoscope was hinting at — that cold , anonymous missive that had been pushed under her door this morning ? |