Example sentences of "had [been] done [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a Conservative party meeting on 28 August , Amery noted that Horne ‘ on the whole agrees with me that we have got into a considerable mess and that the great thing is to extricate our people as soon as possible , ’ while Hailsham in his speech ‘ supported entirely what had been done but trusted that it would not last longer than two months — whereat loud cheers ’ . |
| 2 | Several other careful experiments looking for helium had been done but nothing was found . |
| 3 | Much preparatory work had been done but volunteeers were needed and offers of help would be welcome . |
| 4 | They had been underestimated , as the first Test proved , but the damage had been done and the attendances for the first two Tests were depressing . |
| 5 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 6 | But there are numerous instances which come to my mind of research in which all the problems of analysis were left until the survey had been done and then anything up to , or even over , a year was needed to sort out the tangled mass of answers to vague questions . |
| 7 | It claims that the CSM said the change would be ‘ inappropriate ’ until further research had been done and the idea was dropped for several months . |
| 8 | ‘ Indeed , when we discovered the letter had been sent on , because of client confidentiality , we felt it was important that we should tell any client for whom we acted — either before or presently — that it had been done and not at our behest . ’ |
| 9 | The second is that of people , and they included Pope Paul himself and most of the Council fathers , who greatly welcomed what had been done and desired its effective implementation , but saw it as all in all a daring and radical reform which had gone beyond anything they sought when the Council began and which did not require significant further development . |
| 10 | But this account of achieving grace by the easy means of a self-chosen deprivation did nothing to mitigate the deeper shame ; some original wrong had been done and at home this was known . |
| 11 | What I 'd like to say is I think erm certainly in Scotland and in Strathclyde area that four years ago , erm the first women in transport survey was actually carried out , erm and it was carried out elsewhere in Britain and er this was as I say the first study that had been done and the results were very surprising . |
| 12 | Marshall continued , stressing the amount of work which had been done and offsetting , he hoped , the poor impression caused by his lightheartedness . |
| 13 | An educational programme had been done and 12 hours training every two years was required to keep the licence . |
| 14 | Finally the th county picked up its responsibility again but the damage had been done and er grass cutting never seems to have recovered in some areas on the that I 'll just try to describe in a few words . |
| 15 | One programmer spent a week trying to find out what damage had been done and then putting it right . ’ |
| 16 | I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little . |