Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [that] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a control , sections from all patient and control lungs were stained with ET-1 antiserum that had been immunoabsorbed with synthetic ET-1 overnight at 4°C , or incubated with normal goat serum instead of the primary antisera . |
| 2 | It was a human embryo of some forty days that had been somehow arrested , then grown to its own obscene maturity . |
| 3 | For the Victoria and Albert exhibition , ‘ The Destruction of the Country House ’ , Peter Reid compiled a list of more than 1,200 houses that had been demolished in the preceding century . |
| 4 | If it was nothing other than a short-term political fix … and then all of the 31 pits that had been threatened were to close , that would be completely unacceptable . ’ |
| 5 | If it were a two-year wonder , and then all of the 31 pits that had been threatened were to close , that would be completely unacceptable . ’ |
| 6 | On my twenty-first birthday , she sent me a cheque for three thousand pounds that had been left to my mother in her godfather 's will . |
| 7 | Late in 1991 they were completed and returned to Rochester and around the same time the Merlin 266 engine that had been rebuilt in the USA came home and was fitted to the airframe . |
| 8 | Harrison felt that the solutions used were too strong and suggested that the containers of irrigating fluid should be no more than three feet above the patient 's pelvis , in contrast to the ten feet that had been the norm . |
| 9 | Planting began in 1969 , but in 1981 , 15 years after the scheme had begun , the whole was sold off for a fraction of almost the billion dollars that had been invested in it . |
| 10 | He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display . |
| 11 | One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin . |
| 12 | Two cases ( 3.6% ) of early gastric cancer and two cases of small gastric carcinoid tumours ( 3.6% ) were detected in addition to the five carcinoids that had been found at the initial endoscopic screening . |
| 13 | I remember him telling one man that had been late three times in fifteen years that it was getting to be a habit : ‘ You 'd better look for your previous employment . ’ |
| 14 | At roughly the same time Adobe Systems introduced the PostScript page description language which did the one thing that had been though impossible or , at least , impractical ; real time font generation . |
| 15 | One option that had been canvassed was for staffing ratios and care standards merely to be maintained rather than improved as the hospitals declined . |
| 16 | Boeing had the facilities to test aircraft structures to destruction , and they also had some old Boeing 707/300–400 series that had been traded in for more modern aircraft from which stabilisers could be taken . |
| 17 | It was the aircraft of 249 Squadron that had been transferred to ‘ Ark Royal ’ ; meanwhile the groundcrews of all three squadrons were on their way round the Cape of Good Hope , bound via the Suez Canal for Egypt . |
| 18 | In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Health Authority [ 1984 ] AC 174 the defendants sought to persuade the House of Lords to exercise their freedom under the Practice Statement [ 1966 ] 1 WLR 1234 , to reverse two rules that had been laid down by the majority of the House of Lords in West & Son Ltd v Shephard [ 1964 ] AC 326 , namely : ( 1 ) that the fact of unconsciousness does not eliminate the actuality of the deprivation of the ordinary experiences and amenities of life ( see the formulation used by Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest at p349 ) ; and ( 2 ) that , if damages are awarded upon a correct basis , it is of no concern to the court to consider any question as to the use that will thereafter be made of the money awarded . |
| 19 | ‘ In 189 of the 211 word pairs tested in the simulation experiment , the model came up with the correct parse , in the sense that no other word was more active than either of the two words that had been presented . |
| 20 | There were one or two guests that had been invited to both Breasbrough parties . |
| 21 | When , in Frankfurt in October , the talks were foundering , North called it ‘ a great tragedy for those of us who live on this Planet Earth ’ ; nothing less than the misalignment of two spheres that had been about to dance in harmonious orbit . |
| 22 | The fifth matter of complaint , which goes partly to the intention of the appellants and to the difficulty they found themselves in before the judge was that their solicitor never explained these matters to the judge , that is to say the technical nature of the breach , the details of the two charges that had been made , and the advice that their solicitor himself had given to the appellants when they came to consult him . |
| 23 | This might have resulted from their experience of two courses that had been run successfully during those hours . |