Example sentences of "[noun] that had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period . |
| 2 | She told Lucien how much the northerners resented the Ixmaritian tithes , and how in some cases people had shed their blood to resist them , a course of action that had been doomed to failure . |
| 3 | He stated : " Haughey had retained all but one of the tapes I gave him , and at no stage indicated disapproval of the action that had been taken . " |
| 4 | Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth . |
| 5 | The confounding factors were patients ' characteristics that had been shown to be predictive of increased perinatal risk . |
| 6 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 7 | The possibility of publication was raised by Thorneycroft who suggested not only that it would demonstrate the thinking that had been done , but tactically that it would ‘ in some degree pre-empt any White Paper which the Socialists may be thinking of producing based on Longford ’ . |
| 8 | No degranulation was noted in either transection or resection animals that had been treated with CR-1409 , but incipient vacuolation of the rough endoplasmic reticulum was a feature of all CR-1409 treated tissues as well as those of the PSBR group ( Fig 8 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ This was to prepare us should we come across animals that had been knocked down by cars . |
| 10 | We made our usual rest stop and got water from the mountainside that had been piped in , so pure and tasty . |
| 11 | Their trials , the sentences imposed on them and the police methods that had been used , caused a public outcry and put the government under great pressure . |
| 12 | The Luna Café on Soviet Boulevard faces the gardens and the old Liberation monument that had been built there several régimes back and — so it is said — was something of a milestone in municipal graft . |
| 13 | Adam took a look out of the window of the bedroom that had been Hilbert 's . |
| 14 | The Doctor recognized the signs of an unstable metabolism that had been forced into accelerated decay . |
| 15 | The representatives of nations and organizations that had been preserving a cautious neutrality now swelled the flock , gabbling about friendly relations and mutual benefit . |
| 16 | Mr Hyde also provided ACCOUNTANCY with a list of 18 KPMG , PKF and Haines Watts offices that had been listed on the system at one time or another . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The black eyes that had been sparkling with good humour a moment before had become hard , almost angry . |
| 19 | A perfect oval face , thick , glossy hair and the same bright sparkle in the wide brown eyes that had been so evident in the photograph at Seaview . |
| 20 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 21 | On 9 November , the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 came into effect , suspending rather than abolishing the death penalty for those categories of murder that had been capital . |
| 22 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 23 | She brushed away the dullness that settled itself on her whenever she thought too hard about his death , about the way he had chosen to live parts of his life , the worries that had been there within her , deep below the surface , and forced herself to concentrate on finding the right numbered exit to this magnificent part of Gloucestershire . |
| 24 | At the sixth congress , in 1986 , irate delegates rejected a ridiculously optimistic programme that had been drafted in secret by Le Duan , the then secretary-general . |
| 25 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 26 | The newly restored Japanese Emperor opened the line , and thereby scotched the bitter religious opposition that had been aroused against the building of railways . |
| 27 | He was smarting from the clerical opposition that had been marshaled against his nonsectarian charter for Cornell University . |
| 28 | By retaining the other elements of the plan of this block , the main entrance that had been created in 1959 could be maintained as the ‘ front door ’ with the bathroom/WC being reached from the adjacent entrance hall ( Fig 48 ) . |
| 29 | However the frontal , main attack towards the Mort Homme had barely moved from its point of departure ; stopped by a veritable wall of gunfire from the French artillery that had been anticipating attack from this direction for many days . |
| 30 | I even wore those same trainers that had been glued to my feet for four and a half months . |