Example sentences of "that [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall . |
| 33 | Five or six stones had toppled from the pile and were lying half-buried in the snow , and some red and white cloth streamers that had been tied to a branch of the tree fluttered slightly in the breeze , torn and faded from the wind and rain . |
| 34 | ‘ Pringle 's used to have a Directors ' Dining Room , with their own cook , ’ Wilcox explained as he led her through the drab corridors of the administration block , and out across a yard where fresh snow was already covering the footpath that had been cleared . |
| 35 | We stood in the doorway for a while until our eyes adjusted to the darkness and then , stooping low to avoid the worst of the smoke , we made our way through the crowd to a space that had been cleared for us close to the fire . |
| 36 | The night seemed light , the moon was scudding between white clouds , showing up the white world beyond the drive that had been cleared of snow . |
| 37 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 38 | The electrodes that had been implanted in its brain had been removed ; the scars from the surgery had healed and grown over with fur . |
| 39 | He thought of the latrine and the T-junction of a water-main pipe , and a hole that had been carved from the snow and frozen earth , and a screw top cover that was lagged at night , and a place that was in shadow from the arc lamps of the perimeter fences . |
| 40 | It stuck to Adam 's body , burnt into the jigsaw of cuts that had been carved into his skin . |
| 41 | It was also through Bede that the AD system of reckoning the years from the Incarnation of Christ , that had been devised two centuries before by Dionysius Exiguus , was introduced into England . |
| 42 | A well-informed horseman simply had to grasp the horse 's head firmly and give it a sharp turn and back him out of the area that had been contaminated by the jading substance . |
| 43 | Then the fear of him that had been generated bred a will to resist . |
| 44 | A radical alternative to the peneplanation model that had been generated in humid temperate landscapes was pediplanation as conceived and developed by the geologist L.C. King . |
| 45 | For word sequences having no complete parse then the probabilities of any partial phrases that had been generated were used . |
| 46 | Even at seventeen , which up to now had been the high point of her existence , the passions raised had not one tithe of the sizzling fire that had been generated by Benedict . |
| 47 | There were one or two guests that had been invited to both Breasbrough parties . |
| 48 | The nearest thing to a conjuring trick was the new bell-push that had been fitted under the carpet for Mrs Iverson . ’ |
| 49 | Shelford , the tour captain , will no longer be asking £500 for personal appearances and is understood already to have set about ‘ dismantling ’ those that had been arranged . |
| 50 | The printers " picnic that had been arranged for a Saturday at the beginning of August 1914 had to be cancelled because of the outbreak of war . |
| 51 | Gorbachev , speaking at the closing ceremony , acknowledged that there were basic disagreements between the two sides , but thought the meeting had created ‘ opportunities for progress ’ ; Reagan thought that ‘ useful preliminary results ’ had been achieved , and hoped that further progress would be achieved at the meeting that had been arranged for the following year . |
| 52 | The third Duma consisted of people that had been arranged by the Tsar . |
| 53 | Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home . |
| 54 | Birds that had been reared with siblings were tested in apparatus that allowed them to be given up to six alternatives ( Bateson , 1982a ) . |
| 55 | ( b ) In the middle is the song of a chaffinch that had been reared in complete isolation , unable to hear any sounds at all ; it resembles the normal song , but is a crude version of it . |
| 56 | Even though she had only had time to glimpse the devastation that had been wrought , she knew that it had been a professional job , carried out by men who would leave no trace behind them . |
| 57 | Many of the candles and storm lanterns that had been lit when Maggie left the house were now out so it was a dark journey home , the pair of them stumbling more than once . |
| 58 | At three o'clock in the morning of Tuesday 20 May , Frank Foley and Edward Carrington watched a Dornier 217 taxi to a halt between the lines of flares that had been lit ten minutes previously at RAF Lincoln . |
| 59 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 60 | For its part , West Germany was unhappy about the restrictions that had been placed upon the economic development of much of its heavy industry by the International Ruhr Authority , an organisation set up by the Allies during their military occupation of Germany : the Schuman Plan offered a way to eliminate the Authority while still satisfying West Germany 's neighbours about its intentions . |