Example sentences of "[Wh det] they had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleeping cars with en-suite bathroom , shower and toilet were barely recognisable as the BR Mk 1 vehicles from which they had been skilfully converted . |
| 2 | But nowhere was there a mention of the exact circumstances in which they had been found . |
| 3 | Under his tutelage , the Indians began to demand the rights over their lands which they had been guaranteed by Brazil 's Constitution . |
| 4 | But they had received a further ‘ hammer blow ’ with a demand yesterday ‘ for thousands of pounds from the Inland Revenue for taxation which they had been told by Barlow Clowes had been deducted at source . |
| 5 | Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living . |
| 6 | Mr Shrigley said two of the women had died from the serious illnesses for which they had been admitted to the hospital . |
| 7 | Conservationist Dexter Cate of Hawaii was jailed for 100 days in 1980 when he released several hundred dolphins from the bay into which they had been driven before slaughter . |
| 8 | He turned his attention mainly to the northern forests , however ; he examined the local juries as to the way in which they had been kept , and held Forest Eyres in all the northern Forest counties . |
| 9 | In November 1286 Robert of Everingham , hereditary warden of Sherwood Forest , and ten others were released on bail from prison in Nottingham , to which they had been committed for venison offences . |
| 10 | It showed what many journalists in Beirut had long realised : that the Palestinians regarded their cause , their country — Palestine — as infinitely more holy , more sacred than the nation in which they had been given refuge . |
| 11 | He stole the show and became the epitome of the American anti-hero , the spit-in-your-eye champion of counter-culture whose irreverence captivated and finally liberated his audiences from the time warp in which they had been trapped since Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean began it in a rather less volatile manner in the early Fifties . |
| 12 | Figure 3.4 shows the results of an experiment by Channell and Hall ( 1983 ) in which rats received appetitive conditioning with a light CS — some subjects in a context to which they had been pre-exposed , others in a novel context , differing in its smell and the level of a background noise from that with which they were familiar . |
| 13 | Not long afterwards the protesters also dispersed , obeying the order of the chief steward to take with them the newspapers on which they had been sitting . |
| 14 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 15 | I would eat tinned vegetables , being sure to drink the water in which they had been canned , and I would conserve body fluid by eating little or no protein . |
| 16 | as if they were already dead , Karelius fancied , and from limbo could still hear the sounds of the battle in which they had been killed . |
| 17 | When late in 1972 Richard Leakey announced he had dug up the skull , thighbone , and parts of the lower leg of a human that were more than 2 ½ million years old , thus , if correct , disproving man 's direct descent from Australopithecus , many anthropologists seated in leather armchairs in universities not immediately adjacent to East Africa swiftly challenged Leakey 's conclusions , this despite the fact that they had not examined the bones in question , the strata in and near which they had been found , the animal bones found in the same strata , or indeed anything . |
| 18 | They still remained somewhat too close to the American School Mathematics Study Group materials upon which they had been modelled . |
| 19 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 20 | They did not want to repudiate totally their previous policies , yet had to recognise the disaster of which they had been part . |
| 21 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |
| 22 | By this time , they were looking ahead to the long-term effects on the children of the arbitrary manner in which they had been removed , and the lengthy absence from their homes and families . |
| 23 | The Institute published guidance ( no longer extant ) on the need to state clearly the addressees of reports , the purposes for which they had been prepared and to exclude purposes for which reports were not intended . |
| 24 | It would be an ironical stroke if investigations into the affair resulted not in the discovery of those happenings in which they had been guilty but only in those where they had been blameless . |
| 25 | Odd , I thought , as I confirmed the number which they had been given . |
| 26 | At this point , it would have been pleasant to record a series of strategies by which they had been facilitated . |
| 27 | The times had called for a certain mood but it was the genius of American cinema that it could harness the talents of actors and actresses whose every word and gesture rooted the films in the society for which they had been produced . |
| 28 | In this job market , the qualifications for which they had been encouraged to strive at school were often of little use to them outside where ‘ who you knew ’ was often more useful than ‘ what you knew ’ . |
| 29 | These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G-BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft . |
| 30 | Would one find controlled authorities rationally closing the hospitals which they had been told were least fit to serve for the future — for instance on the grounds of extreme remoteness to districts served or lack of viability in terms of the relative decline of the resident population — and thus cases of rule book judgements ? |