Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [that] had [been] " in BNC.

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1 When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair .
2 Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks .
3 The representatives of nations and organizations that had been preserving a cautious neutrality now swelled the flock , gabbling about friendly relations and mutual benefit .
4 It could scarcely be more vivid in their memories than it is in mine , but what is also vivid in my memory is the aftermath of those events , which was the Government 's sensible accommodation of the fears and anxieties that had been expressed .
5 Richard , wearing the new dressing gown and slippers that had been his mother 's practical present , stood at the window , looking out over the bare countryside .
6 The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year .
7 Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people .
8 Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people .
9 Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that .
10 Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that .
11 Towards the centre of that area were roses and rhododendrons that had been left to grow like weeds , and a willow tree whose branches reached right to the ground to create a shady den around its trunk .
12 Slowly , life returned to something like normal in the Straits , and the bewildered survivors were able to bury their dead , and salvage what they could of homes in towns and villages that had been swept by tsunamis and showered with ash .
13 Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over
14 It is sad that in Britain we have lost most of our old heritage , but when I went to Ireland I was pleased to find that Yeats and others before him had rescued many of the stories and legends that had been in danger of being lost .
15 First thing you 've got to do is inform CID about the chocolates and cigarettes that had been stolen .
16 Sadly , the notes referred to money and medicines that had been sent by the family but not received in the prison .
17 Tonight he 'd been running swabs from the theatres down to the furnace room , in sealed bags and boxes that had been taped and marked with every imaginable hazard warning .
18 But nothing in the language used justifies the conclusion that the mortgagor was agreeing to pay , or to permit to be charged on the mortgaged property , costs , charges and expenses that had been unreasonably incurred or that were unreasonable in amount .
19 Reading the two clauses together , the quantification direction did , in our opinion , entitle the defendants to quantification on an indemnity basis but did not entitle the defendants to recover costs , charges and expenses that had been unreasonably incurred or were of an unreasonable amount .
20 For a second or two the expression of the Annamese.camp " boy " hardened as he stared at his employer , then he moved away from the peephole and began to busy himself cleaning the pots and pans that had been used to prepare the meal .
21 Everything was cooked on primus stoves by Bennett himself in pots and pans that had been thoroughly cleaned and rinsed with boiling water .
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