Example sentences of "these had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early 1980s , many forces had reduced secondments to universities or polytechnics , for these had been somewhat unprogrammatic . |
| 2 | These had been in Rome since at least the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | These had been her favourites when she was little but had not of ten been allowed because the sauce oozed out the sides and made a mess of your clothes . |
| 4 | That same year they took up that old chestnut , the inspection of laundries attached to Roman Catholic ( and now Anglican ) nunneries ; they were annoyed that these had been excluded from the Factory Bill then before Parliament . |
| 5 | These had been brought up sharp in a mathematically exact line by one of those old-fashioned razors that the previous generation had employed for more antisocial purposes . |
| 6 | Dental appointments were booked for seven ( 70 per cent ) of the children whose teeth had not recently been inspected , and at least four of these had been carried out within three months of the first assessment . |
| 7 | These had been developed over a one year period and had been fully piloted . |
| 8 | These had been thrown into the Muniment Room in the most higgledy-piggledy manner over at least two centuries . |
| 9 | Initially these had been one hundred and seventy-five men and twenty-five horses laying claim to an empire of fourteen million . |
| 10 | The most obvious of these had been to bring the fate of the occupied territories onto centre stage internationally , persuading George Schultz to renew his peace mediation efforts . |
| 11 | Two years later , by the time the second edition was published , most of these had been rescued and were off the danger list . |
| 12 | Apart from the counties a number of urban areas had grown up and many of these had been granted Charters of Incorporation giving them varying powers of local administration . |
| 13 | Something of the sort had been attempted by the late Victorian youth organizations , but these had been unable to reach the mass teen-age population ; and had also failed to agree on a coherent programme attractive to the different reforming interests . |
| 14 | These had been acquired by the licensee when Frank Cooper , the Coachbuilder of Brown Street , retired . |
| 15 | These had been broken up by the owls , and a collection of 1128 bones representing 27 individuals was compared with the bone numbers from intact pellets at the same nest site . |
| 16 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 17 | Poland reappeared on the maps of Europe not so much through its own efforts to liberate itself — though over the years these had been prodigious but unsuccessful — but through the collapse of the partitioning powers that had held Poland in check . |
| 18 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
| 19 | These had been written weeks before . |
| 20 | Each of these had been proscribed in law . |
| 21 | These had been regular church-goers in the Caribbean but had not felt at home in the more restrained worship of the British churches , and some had felt cold-shouldered by the white members . |
| 22 | We had not the experts in Burmese poetry who were really needed for this task , only a handful of hymns in the true Burmese style were available , and these had been composed earlier by Father Jackson . |
| 23 | One of these had been that he had suggested going to the Isle of Wight on holiday with the same friends , every year , self-catering . |
| 24 | All these had been drawn before she was born , and yet they were exact prophecies . |
| 25 | For many years , these had been a fixture of the concert schedules and had attracted large crowds to venues such as the Albert Hall and the Empire Pool ( now Wembley Arena ) . |
| 26 | Some of these had been published in periodicals like Country Life and the wildlife journals , but the best had never been shown . |
| 27 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 28 | These had been made by the institution 's carpenter in the guardians ' time , and at their expense . |
| 29 | These had been found in the fragmentary vertebrates such as Astraspis and Eriptychius , long known from Middle Ordovician rocks of North America , and they were often regarded as showing primitive vertebrate conditions from which the large shields of more typical pteraspids developed . |
| 30 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |