Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] most [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of these bodies had either been confined to MPs or had been expressions of ‘ Political Dissent ’ and had overlapped in membership , support and aims ; all had been shunned by most Methodists . |
| 2 | The elections for municipal administrations on May 26 [ see p. 38201 ] had been followed in most cases by the appointment of mayors on June 15 . |
| 3 | Aviation before the war had been considered by most countries , especially the imperial powers , as an important tool of government policy . |
| 4 | We chose acupuncture points that had been used in most experiments with acupuncture analgesia , as well as in the two previous clinical studies , both of which were of electroacupuncture . |
| 5 | Although no one had been hanged in Ireland since 1954 and capital punishment had been abolished for most categories of murder in 1964 [ see p. 19227 ] , it had been nominally retained for those categories specified above . |