Example sentences of "what had [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she objected that she should n't be sent back empty handed , she was shown what had been written on her requisition . |
| 2 | The historical period is so well documented it was only necessary to read what had been written about Elizabeth and integrate it with Ben 's score . |
| 3 | What had been pigeonholed by many as a niche market , for niche products , seemed to have come of age when Alain Pierrot of Hachette disclosed to the conference the total sales of the Grolier Encyclopaedia on a silvery disk . |
| 4 | On Thursday the FBI played through loudspeakers tapes of previous conversations between negotiators and Koresh and a cult member , Steve Schneider , to make certain that all 105 followers still inside the compound were aware of what had been presented in the talks . |
| 5 | What had been perceived in 1935 as an implicit fascist disease had by 1939 reached epidemic proportions . |
| 6 | There may even have been some dissatisfaction among Penda 's allies with what had been achieved at Iudeu . |
| 7 | Lord Carrington , Healey 's successor in the British Ministry of Defence from 1970 , warmly commended what had been achieved since 1964 . |
| 8 | At about that time , Kurds in Iraq , hoping perhaps to emulate the positive side of what had been achieved over the border , rose in revolt . |
| 9 | He realized that we felt disgusted at what had been achieved in the commandos and that he had had this brainwave of small parties behind the lines . ’ |
| 10 | The scale of what had been achieved in capturing Lloyd George was underlined by incidents surrounding the letter of agreement between Law and Lloyd George . |
| 11 | Town and country planning , published in 1933 ( significantly , in view of the new interest taken in planning in the wartime years , with a second edition in 1943 and three further reprints by 1945 ) , declared that : Historic examples showed what had been achieved in the past , but Abercrombie stressed the degradation of industrialization which the country had experienced in the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |
| 13 | It soon became disappointingly clear to the NVA that what had been conceived as a two-way process between voluntary bodies and the state , in practice placed the burden of day-to-day regulation on private initiatives . |
| 14 | What had been seen as a possible threat to public health had transformed into a darling of venture capital with resulting controversy over the protection of academic virtue . |
| 15 | Proceedings initiated by Finland in July 1991 at the International Court of Justice were formally discontinued on Sept. 10 , removing what had been seen as an irritant in Nordic co-operation . |
| 16 | At interview , W responded to some questions by ‘ nothing to say , ’ including questions seeking his observations on what had been seen by the officers . |
| 17 | In such cases , it was best to say one would go directly and to rush out of the room and hope the substitute finally brought would convince him this was what had been asked for . |
| 18 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
| 19 | Broken glass and dishes were all over the floor mixed with what had been served for dinner — steak , corn and potatoes . |
| 20 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 21 | And how he tried — speeding from study group to policy committee , from National Executive Committee to Cabinet , from office to platform , spraying out speeches , press releases and lengthy papers reminding his colleagues of what had been said in their manifesto . |
| 22 | The mayor told them that he could not add to what had been said in the statement about the agreement between the three housing authorities . |
| 23 | On the other hand , his political opponents suffered too : Lord Lytton 's speech was so bad that many people had great difficulty in understanding him , and because his deafness did not allow him to take part in debates , everyone was often forced to wait until the next day for any reply from Lord Lytton because he would insist on reading what had been said in Hansard , the Parliamentary publication , before making his own speech . |
| 24 | Hoffmann J. [ 1991 ] B.C.C. 658 in his judgment on the hearing of the motion , referred to what had been said by Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. , sitting in the Court of Appeal in Cloverbay Ltd . |
| 25 | To the same effect was Rex v. Bland ( 1740 ) 7 Mod.Rep. 355 , and in 1794 in Rex v. Bishop of Ely , 5 Durn. & E. 475 Lord Kenyon C.J. regarded what had been said by Holt C.J. as settled law . |
| 26 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 27 | Not anger for what he had suffered , but a deep and terrible rage for what had been inflicted upon others . |
| 28 | For their part it was unnecessary as they only drank what had been boiled for tea or coffee , whereas I often drank water on its own or with fruit cordial . ) |
| 29 | This of course was also a severe blow to the emerging Labour Party and again the politicians had to try to restore what had been understood to be the position by passing the Trade Union Act 1913 . |
| 30 | Sources say Intel now figures it wo n't be able to ship them more than 2,000 or 3,000 apiece before October , a third of what had been projected before ( UX No 418 ) . |