Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end . |
| 2 | In the long wake of a critical career that had begun in the 1930s avowedly in imitation of Richards and Empson and which ended with his death at the age of 83 , his final achievement of style was above all to create , for a time , a compelling image of himself . |
| 3 | As she crossed the street towards the far corner by the church entrance , the young woman was careful to step over the littering of prawn shells and orange peel , fish tails and broken heads of artichoke that had accumulated in the numerous depressions afforded by the badly laid cobbles . |
| 4 | Both the Board of Education and Ministry of Health were acutely sensitive on this issue , given the controversy that had raged in the 1930s over the issue of child malnutrition and ill health . |
| 5 | In translating the original constant price figure for the department that had appeared in the public expenditure White Paper into the new cash limit figure , the Treasury estimated the likely price and wage increases for the year ahead . |
| 6 | On the morning of Tuesday , 3 April 1934 , at 7.40 a.m. , the workers marched into the yard to the skirl of the pipes and began to clean away the rust and the nests of rooks that had appeared in the giant skeleton of the hull as it lay neglected during years of depression . |
| 7 | It was a song she 'd heard many times in the past , one that had stayed in the popular charts for months . |
| 8 | Stenhouse 's proposal was in marked contrast , not only to Hoyle 's , but , for different reasons , to the tradition of curriculum development that had developed in the 1960s , both in the UK and the USA . |
| 9 | The Brett-Jones Report , eleven years later , reiterated and reinforced the principal points of the Wells and Eve Reports , and recognised the enormous changes that had occurred in the intervening years . |
| 10 | And yet many of the attitudes towards the outside world that had flourished in the Tsarist period still play a role in Soviet and now post-Soviet foreign policy today . |
| 11 | In these circumstances , many of the different philosophical perspectives that had flourished in the nineteenth century were able to update themselves and remain viable in the new age of professional specialization . |
| 12 | In the silence of his shelter he was finally letting the true sorrow he felt for all that had happened in the last months come into him , and he was beginning to grieve . |
| 13 | She was wearing a halter dress the colour of flame that had wilted in the first hour . |
| 14 | His father 's body that had lain in the great lead-lined stone coffin there for forty years was reverently removed and buried below the flagstones inside the chapel , which was hung with black , and the old man was told that all was ready for him . |