Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [that] had [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course the trade papers revelled in hyperbole but the claims that were being made had a greater validity than those that had been made for music-hall . |
| 2 | He claimed that it was more accurate than any that had been made before , and there is a strong possibility that it is to be identified with the map which appears in the 1535 English Bible of Miles Coverdale [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | The regime would scarcely have been considered noteworthy , nor Napoleon III a remarkable sovereign , if all that had been achieved was the creation of a brilliant Court which succeeded in outshining those of the traditional European monarchies . |
| 4 | And so it was Emily who , if all that had been said about herself and George was true , would miss him most and she was absent from the funeral . |
| 5 | She had grown heavier in her enforced stillness , her body was ripe and full that had been so slender , and moved with something less than the old negligent grace . |
| 6 | Secondly , it said that there had been a threat of economic and monetary union which threatened to bring unemployment , but that that had been removed and therefore people could vote in the referendum knowing that there would be no economic or monetary union . |
| 7 | Not an appropriate analogy as fairy tales and pantomimes are the Devil 's tools , I 'm sure — Ness District deleted ‘ Devil 's Dance ’ from the SCO posters — but all that had been asleep was now activated . |
| 8 | Some of the rapids were as difficult as those that had been our undoing on the first day , but tackled with a bit of newly learned skill they were challenging and exhilarating rather than terrifying . |