Example sentences of "that had been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 2 | Mark states that the next morning Jesus and his disciples walked passed the fig tree that had been cursed the previous day . |
| 3 | We found a railway bridge that had been named the Chelmsford Bridge painted in drab brown colour . |
| 4 | The representatives of nations and organizations that had been preserving a cautious neutrality now swelled the flock , gabbling about friendly relations and mutual benefit . |
| 5 | The telephone was then borrowed to order those samples that had been requested the previous night . |
| 6 | She switched off the alarm clock , then lit the fire that had been laid the night before . |
| 7 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 8 | The next day the Iranian military unit that had been guarding the American embassy was ordered to return to its barracks . |
| 9 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 10 | welcomed everyone with the news that had been awarded a GL&SE Sports Council Award for Services to Sport , in the category of ‘ Raising Standards of Performance ’ for her work with the National Display Team . |
| 11 | She did not have sufficient strength to take stance on the gaunt bare branch above her head nor had she touched the remnant of meat that had been left the day before as her food and which now lay on the ground at her side . |
| 12 | She 'd told him she wanted a break from her own very successful career — that had been bending the truth more than a little , but taking over the club , putting her own life on hold for a little while , had seemed a small price to pay for her father 's health . |
| 13 | He thought of his dam that had been to make a lake . |
| 14 | There had been only one obvious course of action — and that had been to raise the necessary sums by selling the family estate . |
| 15 | The logistics of his complicated destiny involved not only Skunk Kilo , anchored by its FBI crew in international waters , but the USS Butte , a Navy ammunitions ship that had been shadowing the yacht by radar , the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga , standing by with a Navy S-3 jet and an escort of two F-14 Phantoms to fly him to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington , D.C. , two KC-10 tanker aircraft to refuel the S-3 on the way , and 15 carloads of FBI agents to meet him on arrival . |