Example sentences of "that [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The old newspapers that had been placed underneath her crackled at the movement . |
| 62 | The plantation director was standing on an upturned crate that had been placed in position for him beneath the light , and despite the early hour he was already wearing his customary pitch helmet , the sleeves of his bush shirt were rolled high on his brown muscular arms and he was bare-legged in shorts , heavy jungle boots and short thick socks . |
| 63 | The newspaper slowly unfolded itself on the mat , flopping open to reveal some glossy law magazine that had been placed inside . |
| 64 | The Committee may have been relieved to hear that in one case at another institution , the Inland Revenue had decided that officers who took round , for sale , firewood that had been chopped by the inmates , were exempt from the need for a hawker 's licence . |
| 65 | For Bridgnorth had made me resolve that I would never more go among a people that had been hardened in unprofitableness under an awakening ministry … |
| 66 | Others went their own way , delving farther into the secrets that had been revealed to them , living in the deep woods of the high crags , visited by petitioners who sought aid . |
| 67 | The narrow staircase that had been revealed when Guy had removed a grille from the wall of the tiny chamber had been so black that Isabel had forgotten her embarrassment at their surroundings . |
| 68 | Finally , MacNalty absolved the school medical service from prime responsibility for the condition of the evacuees : while acknowledging the ‘ unexpectedly high incidence of pediculosis and bad habits among school children ’ that had been revealed , he favoured the following analysis : |
| 69 | Balb c mice that had been maintained on a gluten free diet for many generations in order to overcome oral tolerance to gliadin , were primed subcutaneously with 0.1 ml of BCG , vaccine . |
| 70 | He was clean-shaven with a face that had been ravaged by acne when younger . |
| 71 | The Indian in charge of it had to do all the technical work himself , and I gave the short address that had been scheduled . |
| 72 | Enraptured by the celluloid screen , we revelled in the romance that had been denied to us , or had been put in cold storage ‘ for the duration , . |
| 73 | The love that had been denied her was always there , together with fond recollections of the father who had never seen him . |
| 74 | The Soviet masses were in the process of acceding to a cultural awareness that had been denied to his father . |
| 75 | Another time he passed a copse of exposed trees that had been battered by the prevailing wind for so long that the trees were permanently bent over . |
| 76 | The ICJ declared that it was " not called upon to determine any of the questions " that had been raised by the Libyan submission to the Court , and would therefore not be taking any restraining " provisional measures " , such as had been sought by Libya . |
| 77 | The second session of Parliament , which began on 9 November , saw an attack on the standing army , the Commons refusing to vote supply for the additional forces that had been raised over the summer , and instead resolving to bring in a bill to reform the militia . |
| 78 | He was smarting from the clerical opposition that had been marshaled against his nonsectarian charter for Cornell University . |
| 79 | Staff and customers comforted each other as police cleared items from the scene ; the cartridges that had been fired , and the pushchair that one of the children had been using . |
| 80 | When the headmistress , with some guilt , asked her to take over the school 's unpopular Commonwealth Society she rolled up her sleeves and cleaned out the dusty room that had been hung with torn posters depicting ‘ Tea-picking in Ceylon , ‘ Coffee Growing in Kenya , ’ and ‘ Sheep Farming in Australia . ’ |
| 81 | The body that had been racked with sobbing was now pressing into him and moving in an altogether different rhythm . |
| 82 | They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful . |
| 83 | What is certain is that they discovered that electrical stimulation of some parts of the cortex caused movements in the limbs on the opposite side of the body from the part of the brain that had been stimulated . |
| 84 | He looked through the xerox sheets that had been pressed between them but there was nothing too controversial there , just a Jenner Clinic catalogue and price schedule and a few dates and details . |
| 85 | All the points of her body that had been pressed against him were suddenly touched with fingers of ice . |
| 86 | Was that what the horoscope was hinting at — that cold , anonymous missive that had been pushed under her door this morning ? |
| 87 | Hoping against hope that she had not ducked out back to her own flat — not that she 'd blame her ! — Leith skirted the room until her eyes were drawn to a settee that had been pushed back to the side of the room . |
| 88 | One option that had been canvassed was for staffing ratios and care standards merely to be maintained rather than improved as the hospitals declined . |
| 89 | 795 the matters that had been canvassed before the Judge should be considered by a jury , was rejected . |
| 90 | ‘ It was some of the WIN files that had been withdrawn from the Registry — the dossiers cross-referenced from Mills ’ personnel file . ’ |