Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] that had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little doubt that Harris 's 1,000-Plan saved the Command for the planned strategic bombing of Germany that had been his Directive from the Chiefs-of-Staff Committee who set aside some 3,500 heavy aircraft for this task . |
| 2 | As a way of thanks , we handed Thomas a wee bit of Scotland that had been given to us by Frank Brown , a teacher at Musselburgh Grammar School . |
| 3 | Once , when I was hand-feeding peanuts to six badgers at a sett in the east of England that had been watched and provisioned with food regularly for more than 30 years , the badgers were scared off merely by a distant snapping twig and the far-off murmur of voices . |
| 4 | Within was a colour photograph of Nicola that had been taken several years before : her face was chubbier and her hair , although still a remarkable blonde , was straight and parted down the middle . |
| 5 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 6 | It had been a choice between bearing what he had or running back to Aber where he was privileged and protected , and for Harry that had been no choice at all . |
| 7 | It was through their influence that Goodricke was appointed as minister-resident to Sweden in 1758 ; he had to wait in Copenhagen until 1764 before the Swedish government resumed diplomatic relations with Britain that had been severed at the outset of the Seven Years ' War . |
| 8 | In Committee I gave a list of the bus stations in town and city centres in England that had been sold off similarly to , although rather less spectacularly than , the station in Southampton . |
| 9 | In 1981 , six of the 280 LLMAs accounted for over half of the people in Britain that had been born in the New Commonwealth or Pakistan ( NCWP ) . |
| 10 | Did this allow you to reintroduce , rediscover old traditions in Lewes that had been lost ? |
| 11 | Did this allow you to reintroduce , rediscover old traditions in Lewes that had been lost ? |
| 12 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |