Example sentences of "[adj] [that] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Davide could almost fancy he could smell again the stale vaporous emanations of the law in the room as he began to take down details of the wrong that had been done . |
| 2 | They put their trust in a military solution to right the wrong that had been done in 1688 , and looked to France for help . |
| 3 | How strange that had been . |
| 4 | Secondly , it said that there had been a threat of economic and monetary union which threatened to bring unemployment , but that that had been removed and therefore people could vote in the referendum knowing that there would be no economic or monetary union . |
| 5 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 6 | The nearest thing to a conjuring trick was the new bell-push that had been fitted under the carpet for Mrs Iverson . ’ |
| 7 | While in Texas , Ice also paid a $516 fine that had been outstanding since he was convicted of assault in 1988 . |
| 8 | Erika felt goose-pimples on her arms and the thought crossed her mind that , despite all that had been said to her about courage , perhaps she was n't really cut out for stardom , after all . |
| 9 | The regime would scarcely have been considered noteworthy , nor Napoleon III a remarkable sovereign , if all that had been achieved was the creation of a brilliant Court which succeeded in outshining those of the traditional European monarchies . |
| 10 | Not an appropriate analogy as fairy tales and pantomimes are the Devil 's tools , I 'm sure — Ness District deleted ‘ Devil 's Dance ’ from the SCO posters — but all that had been asleep was now activated . |
| 11 | To one correspondent , Elia Diodati , he described his book as a most ample confirmation of the Copernican system by showing the nullity of all that had been brought by Tycho and others to the contrary . ’ |
| 12 | Instead of a systematic policy of imperialism , Unionists had Montagu 's Indian policy and Milner 's policy in Egypt ; instead of settlement in Ireland there were outrages ; instead of a broad social policy there was first a reckless waste of money and then an abandonment of almost all that had been proposed . |
| 13 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |
| 14 | Overwhelmed by not having noticed this earlier , by his failure of politeness , observation and helpfulness , all that had been taught him from boyhood up , Richard proceeded at the double onto the Embankment , to escort her on to Lord Jim . |
| 15 | But this morning all that had been forgotten because the budgerigar had taken a turn for the worse . |
| 16 | The woman with the pram asked him what all that had been about . |
| 17 | The judgement on whether the consequences were acceptable was clearly left to the negotiators : all that had been done was to remove the uncertainty as to what the consequences would be given a set of grade boundaries , not to state whether any set of consequences was acceptable . |
| 18 | All that had been definitely erased were the pointers to where each ‘ exon ’ began and ended . |
| 19 | She felt a returning surge of anger — after all that had been said , did he really think she would sleep with him ? |
| 20 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 21 | And so it was Emily who , if all that had been said about herself and George was true , would miss him most and she was absent from the funeral . |
| 22 | She would give to it all that had been withheld from her , pour out her infinite capacity to love knowing that for certain this time it would be needed and valued . |
| 23 | With an almost unanimous vote at its 40th congress in Geneva , the party said that the word " communism " was being dropped because of all that had been done in its name . |
| 24 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 25 | All that had been two months ago . |
| 26 | Listlessly she tossed about , unable to sleep , her mind reliving all that had been said tonight . |
| 27 | I mean , ten years ago , maybe twenty years ago , I would n't have known anyone at all that had been millionaires . |
| 28 | And his aim in doing that would be to be res , fully restore all that had been his brother 's , for his brother 's family . |
| 29 | If Joyce 's energy had been concentrated in the forging of a language adequate to resolve all that had been , then that language , whatever else it had done , had achieved something for him . |
| 30 | During Queen Victoria 's reign , many that had been formerly open to the public closed their gates , preferring to cultivate the sanctity of ‘ home ’ . |