Example sentences of "most had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came mainly from Stockholm or , at least , southern Sweden and most had been trudging these paths for decades . |
| 2 | The jews in the countryside had been rounded up , with the active and sometimes enthusiastic support of the Hungarian authorities , and most had been sent to Auschwitz . |
| 3 | Yet until the 1950s most had been managed as coppice since Norman times . |
| 4 | Of 8,855 miles of five-foot gauge railroad laid across the Southern States , most had been engineered by Scots . |
| 5 | There was no home leave from overseas and , as far as I knew , few individuals or units of the Eighth Army had returned to Britain , for most had been sent to Sicily and thence to the toe and heel of Italy , or to Salerno , and by this time were fighting hard up the Italian peninsula on one or other side of the Appennines . |
| 6 | Most had been subject to companies ' general cost-cutting exercises and are now smaller in number and size than formerly . |
| 7 | Most had been forced to sell their private woodlands , which had been reverently preserved since the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | Most had been amputated . |
| 9 | By October most had been transferred to ordinary prisons but had not been tried . |
| 10 | This touched a chord in the women 's experience : most had been , at some time , dependent wives responsible for feeding and clothing a family . |
| 11 | One recent study listed over 1,300 such deals concluded by developing countries between 1980 and 1987 ( Jones and Jagoe , 1988 ) and concluded that most had been due to the instability of the financial system . |
| 12 | Originally most had been placed satisfactorily but they had not been followed up and had drifted away two or three years later as circumstances changed . |
| 13 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 14 | The decrease in spot density with age observed in patients with constipation is not therefore an age related factor , but is most probably related to the duration of the symptoms as most had been constipated for many years . |