Example sentences of "when it [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You used to go in the fields and turn it and when it had been turned they used to start leading . |
| 2 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 3 | When it had been authenticated by its silver hallmarks , Sir Charles bought it and for the rest of his life regarded it as an important heirloom . |
| 4 | When it had been examined and test-flown by the manufacturer 's pilot prior to the revalidation of the microlight 's Permit to Fly both wingtip adjusters had been set at the neutral position with no apparent need for any change . |
| 5 | The prediction is made more precise by making it equal to 1,290 days and then adding another 45 days ( 12.11–12 ) — to the despair of the modern interpreter , — but probably to the complete satisfaction of the contemporary reader who read the prophecy just when it had been fulfilled . |
| 6 | Justice must be seen to be done , however , and when it had been seen to be done , the miscreants were cheered by a crowd assembled outside the court . |
| 7 | When it had been cut and bound into sheaves , Kalchu carried it back to the village and laid it out on racks inside the house until it was dry enough to thresh . |
| 8 | The praise bestowed on the adaptation of literary classics , the films of the foreign directors , and the role of Vidor always stressed the relative realism of these films compared with the standard product and was testimony to the extent to which the feature film had moved away from the era of social preoccupations when it had been felt that social preaching was the obvious subject-matter for Hollywood . |
| 9 | When it had been obtained program crashes occurred due to triggering of the consistency check traps . |
| 10 | Miles ( 1962 , reviewed in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) had found that , although the rate of implementation of changed practices in institutions had improved from 1930 ( when it had been estimated that fifteen years needed to elapse before something like 3 per cent of schools adopted a particular change ) , in the 1960s it still required seven years before 11 per cent of schools adopted an innovation . |
| 11 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |
| 12 | They were contained in the liquid membrane ready to attach themselves to a copper ion but only when it had been reduced to Cu + . |
| 13 | It had seven base stones and four capstones ; she knew it well ; she had been present when it had been discoverd and excavated . |
| 14 | It had only woken up again when it had been brought into the Store , near electricity . |
| 15 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 16 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 17 | When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole . |
| 18 | upstairs and warm the bloody brandy we just , you know that brandy gives off fumes when it 's been heated up ? |
| 19 | Everybody says that 's what 's going to happen , but erm when it 's been done in the past I 've not had any figures produced that indicate that the service provision has had to fall off because of increased charges . |
| 20 | The introduction of acupuncture apparently restores this balance when it 's been lost . |
| 21 | It smells different when it 's been raining and our clothes are wet . |
| 22 | I have said consistently we do n't want to be the first in the industry , I would rather await either N A C O T , N A C O M or the U D M seeing what they , the outcome is there as we have traditionally done and then take it from there where you must agree that we have usually improved on their offer when it 's been made . |
| 23 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 24 | It 's easier to slice up the brain when it 's been fixed in suspension — much more accurate . |
| 25 | Ten to the minus three , erm is basically , when it 's been broken down |
| 26 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 27 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 28 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |
| 29 | I do n't think they 're likely to go off , but you never know with live ammunition , particularly when it 's been jumbled about , as this stuff has . |
| 30 | That you know our drawing number books once when it 's been issued . |